Posts by chewitt

As much as we love a whinge-o-gram post, it contains no actual descriptions of problems and no evidence/facts to investigate; not even an explanation of the hardware being used. On that basis .. no further action required

No clue and no time right now.

Quote from royrob69

Can I update to LE 13 nightly and what will il bring to me ?

These are images that will become LE13 in the future; around year-end seems to be typical for Kodi releases. The images are quite usable and stable right now, but these are development images with pre-Alpha code, so you should expect breakage and no formal support on them.

Where are the music files stored (the filesystem path)?

What sources are configured?

Changes were pushed yesterday so it's either already in the repo by now, or will show up shortly.

There's now a 2GB RPi5 board (lower cost than 4GB, but enough for LE). It's not an Android box, but it'll be better supported and a lot more reliable.

He has Android 6.0.1, which means whatever the problem is, it's not our OS, and thus not our problem to solve.

It's in the LE settings add-on.

nathmo You are reminded of forum rules and the project's stance on piracy.

Technically 3D works on all LE RPi images from LE 7.0 to LE 9.2.8, but I don't recall it ever working properly on x86_64 hardware.

There is no upstream kernel support for S905W2 hardware so there is no LE support.

In our house there's quite a lot of subtitle usage and I don't see any issues with embedded subs or sub files in the same folder as the movie or tvshow being watched. If external subs are used I do ensure they are named the same as the accompanying media. I also download from opensubtitles. Again, no drama.

Share a Kodi debug log from a clean boot, playing some media with subs enabled.

It's not obvious but I'd guess that you are playing "HDR" media (as I can 4K HEVC in one of the snippets) and this switches the TV into an intentionally brighter output mode. As a direct result the OSD appears brighter too, as Kodi does not support changing the OSD colours to dim/compensate for the increase in brightness.

Kodi debug log would confirm the media spec.

Kodi debug logs might be useful in seeing what display capabilities the GMA950 GPU advertises. You might be better off with an older LE release (although that brings its own problems).

Videos with subtitles do not automatically play with subtitles enabled. Have you enabled them?

I'm using an RPi5 with an LG 4K OLED set. I don't see these issues. I also didn't see them in the past with an RPi4 either. However I never enabled 4K@60 modes because I have no 4K@60 media other than a few test files, and I suspect that 99% of people enabling 4K@60 modes "because, more is better, no?" similarly have no actual need to enable them. I also have all the HDMI sockets on the LG enabled for deep-colour modes (which changes their HDMI capabilities) and I am only using 4K60 certified cables between RPi and AVR, and AVR and TV. I also follow the configuration recommended in the 4K-HDR wiki article (which I wrote).

Some of the items in your initial descriptions read like "user didn't read the manual" issues. Others sound like insufficient PSU and/or cables - all of which are helped by NOT enabling 4K60 modes and using the right HDMI ports (they are not all equal).

NB: We do occasionally see users complaining about media with weird encodings that an RPi board will not play, but that's usually media they stole/torrented so isn't something we care about investigating. If it's only a handful of own-source files that cause issues you can always use tools like Handbrake to fix the weird encoding and make things playable.

Newer Kodi releases should allow you to reduce the font size and there's more options for positioning?

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newer LE versions are based on the mainline kernel, which is no longer based on binary microcode from the BSP kernel.

Some issues may continue though, as the upstream codec drivers are still stateful and still using the same closed-source microcode firmware blobs extracted from the vendor kernel sources (sadly).