Posts by chewitt

  • 11.06 with Youtube issue

    You need to ask in the YouTube add-on support thread in Kodi forums. I've no idea if there's a current solution to the problem but it has nothing to do with LE and everything to do with Google being a grade A1+ pain in the rear and moving the goalposts around on what's needed to evade their API usage rules and desire to ruin their user-experience with an unholy amount of adverts. In short, the old solution is no longer the solution. FWIW, I see the same but haven't worked up the enthusiasm to hunt down the solution just yet.

  • Video not working on some x264 files. (RPI4)

    H264 has lots of variations and the H264 codec in the Amlogic vendor kernel that CE uses handles more of the non-standard ones than the RPi4 codec. Two common examples are 4K H264 (RPi4 handles 1080p max) and 10-bit H264 (not a broadcast standard, RPi4 doesn't support it at all). RPi5 sort of solves the RPi4 issue by having no H264 hardware codec at all so ffmpeg falls back to software decode which allows a wider range of media to be played; at the expense of needing more CPU (and RPi5 generally has enough).

    NB: To confirm the theory ^ you'll need to share Kodi debug logs and/or media samples.

  • No HBR Audio with LSPCON - Trying to collect information

    If you start to poke around in the Gitlab issue log for the Intel DRM driver you'll see reports and triage that reveal the problem isn't simple like LSPCON vs. no-LSPCON; as there are different LSPCON chips (different chip vendors) with different properties, and even identical LSPCON chips can have rather different implementations (different electrical properties, resulting in different bandwidths available on internal connections) on different boards. In some cases firmware changes can tweak voltages and such that drive the LSPCON chip differently so achieve improvements. In other cases the LSPCON implementation is more fundamentally wrong and no tweaking can get the right result. Most of the issue reports are focused on graphics performance; but the underlying issue is related to bandwidth and thus HBR audio (needing more bandwidth) suffers similarly to higher resolution and refresh rate and colour depth graphics (needing more bandwidth). TL/DR; /shrug

  • Airplay latency

    It's possible to change latency for video content (to align with audio) but I think that mechanism assumes Kodi is playing both and that won't be the case with an audio-only stream being played.

    NB: At one point it was possible to 'cast' YouTube URLs from a smartphone to Kodi so they played (audio and video) on Kodi; which would be played together (in-sync) and somewhat avoid the problems.

  • docker on M8S-Plus.arm ?

    You are running the latest available LE release for Meson 8 hardware. There is a long-term effort to add support for Meson 8 devices into the upstream kernel (which would permit Docker support) but this is a rather slow burning effort and there's no timeline for an LE release.

  • LibreELEC (Omega) 12 Beta1

    Here's a quick update on the "xz" issues that are being widely reported at the moment (CVE-2024-3094).

    - LE12-beta1 and LE12 nightly images since January 27 2024 contain problem xz versions (5.6.0 and 5.6.1)

    - We have already reverted to an older non-problem version (5.4.6) in our master branch

    - We are investigating complete removal of xz binaries (reverting to xz from busybox)

    - We have tested the LE12-beta1 release using exploit signatures. These show WE ARE NOT VULNERABLE.

    Staff are working on a beta2 release and this will ship soon, but as we are not vulnerable we are not going to rush the release. If the situation changes due to new information we will (re)evaluate our response and adapt as necessary.

    Please go back to enjoying your weekend :)

  • Liberelec on the Vero 4k+?

    Quote from sam_nazarko

    I will have a chat with chewitt and ascertain what hardware he has and what to send him and see what is available. I know that he was responsible for upstreaming DTS support for Vero 4K + to the kernel.

    I don't have any Vero boxes in my collection. Existing support for 4K+ (upstream) and 4K (not-yet-upstream) was developed through educated guesswork from me and testing from frakkin64 :)

  • Libreelec 12 beta does not want to install on Macbook Pro 2012

    Older Apple hardware often pays lip-service to EFI specs and might refuse to work with syslinux. Unless you fancy experimenting with tools like "rEFInd" (a great tool but sometimes hard to understand) the easiest option will be to experiment with a recent Ubuntu LiveUSB to see if that boots. If it does; the version of grub Ubuntu is using on the LiveUSB can can be installed to our boot USB (replacing/overwriting syslinux). You may need to create grub boot config/menu files.

    Two further comments:

    a) Laptops are not and never have been target hardware for LE, and Apple laptops full of quirks are no exception.

    b) LE isn't going to magically add capabilities or performance improvements over the native macOS Kodi app.

  • LibreELEC (Omega) 12 Beta1

    Code
    rm -rf /storage/.kodi/addons/inputstream.*
rm -rf /storage/.kodi/addons/packages/inputstream.*
rm -rf /storage/.kodi/cdm

    M-Reimer Those commands ^ should remove all traces of inputstream and related widevine files. You should be able to reinstall inputstream add-ons from the LE repo and then let the widevine files be downloaded/unpacked again.

  • Change opacity or customize widelist view

    Quote from LybsterKodi

    There must be a better way.

    Clone the skin files to /storage/.kodi/addons/skin.myskin and edit the addon.xml to define a new/different skin name so there is no name clash. Restart Kodi for it to see the 'new' skin as something installed but disabled. Enable the skin. You can now edit the files in-situ using nano. You can reload the skin using a keyboard command (if one is attached) or use a kodi-send command to reload if editing 'remotely' over SSH (can't remember the command, Google will find it for you).