Posts by chewitt

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/26606 submitted .. if it passes build (it should) I'll merge it tomorrow.

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/25700 <= seems to be this issue, which is fixed for K22, but wasn't backported to K21.

The quick fix is to update to a current LE13 nightly image which uses K22. The longer fix is waiting for someone to see if the patch backports onto K21 and then either submit a backport upstream (and then bumping the Kodi version in our LE12 branch) or we can backport the patch direct. I'm not sure there's any plan for another K21 maintenance release. I've been using K22 images for the last year and despite technically being pre-alpha code they've been stable, so I'd probably pick the quick option.

Quote from LoneWolf

I tried a 640 stream and still got the blur for most of the screen (about two third, interestingly the top third works quite well, and below that it blurs).

Please pastebin a Kodi debug log that shows this stream being played.

Quote from LoneWolf

by capture examples you mean screenshots`?

No, a sample of the stream (recording). Something that can be used to replicate the issue.

popcornmix are there hardware iterations of RPi3B+ that need newer firmware than we ship in the LE 9.2.6/8 image?

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Banned add-ons are installed. No further support.

Quote from LoneWolf

the 3B+ only offers 640x480, 800x600 and the selected 1024x768. I couldn't get it to set higher one, or any in the correct format.

The display pipeline on RPi0/1/2/3 is 1920x1080 maximum and supports a specific set of configurations. The much newer RPi4/5 can handle 4096x2160 max and a wider variety of configurations.

If you can capture/share some examples of the stream we can look deeper.

Quote from marc.bau

Can one of the maintainer recompile the latest TVH 4.3 version available for testing, please???

LE12 has a slightly outdated version. LE13 (nightlies) have 4.3-2375 which is the latest available version.

Quote from fliz

Does the Flirc case impede the wifi signal?

The issue is not the flirc case impeding the signal, it's the generally rubbish WiFi on the board in the first place. It's a compromise for basic functional connectivity not high throughput performance.

Two suggestions:

a) Use an external USB device, the Realtek and Mediatek chipsets used in most of them are now mostly supported in upstream kernels which reduces the lottery of things working or not (still never guaranteed, but things improved a lot).

b) Use a WiFi > Ethernet bridge. I'm often testing devices in locations that aren't near Ethernet so I use some old Apple Airport Express units in bridge mode to get things connected. No drivers needed and they have a decent antenna. Amazon has options for mini/portable bridge units for a similar price as a better external USB WiFi dongle.

Thread renamed and commented to remove the name of the pirate addon. No support for pirates in this forum.

I'm fuzzy on the precise details in some areas ( popcornmix can probably describe things more accurately) but I think this is broadly what's happening:

The H264 hardware decoder supports a maximum 1920x1080 resolution on both boards (RPi4 inherited the same IP block as RPi3) and you are trying to play 2560x1440 resolution media on a 1024x768 monitor. As hardware decoding cannot be used because the resolution is too large the boards fall back to software decoding + resizing to match the output resolution + adjusting from 15fps to 60fps refresh rate (the only easy bit). RPi4 has the CPU grunt for the task so you see output. I'm unsure why RPi3 shows a blank screen where RPi4 shows output, but this is probably due to a capability difference between RPi3 (1080p max) and RPi4 (4K capable) so display pipelines are not equial. Disabling DRMPRIME in Kodi disables hardware decode and changes rendering in the kernel DRM layer; hence you now see something on RPi3 instead of nothing, but I'd guess it's still beyond the capabilities elsewhere in the pipeline so it's not usable output.

Quote from acamas125

I'm using this sports add-on to watch live NBA games. There are links called Home and Away. Most of the time when I click on that, it's either LE will crashed or playback failed will appear. While Kodi on Windows 11, the video plays almost instantly.

In the absence of any technical information (crash logs or such) I consulted my son's magic 8-ball, and it said "it is certain" .. so there's your answer

Quote from osflake

Please tell me what is wrong, what I done wrong.

No clue. Update firmware. Check cables. Check ports. Usual stuff .. and don't assume I'm your personal support person. I'm not.

The board pic posted in the Armbian forum doesn't show the WiFi chip on the board. Yours is a Silicon Village "SV6256P" but no guarantee what the other user had (might be the same, might be Realtek, etc).

Searching on GitHub finds a few "ssv6x5x" drivers, but some of them are tagged as being usable with Linux 4.4 (as used in older downstream Allwinner kernels) and there are substantial crypto changes since then which mean drivers will not forward-port onto the modern upstream kernels that LE uses. You might find newer ones, or you might not

NB: Even if you do find a newer one, LE will not add support for downstream drivers that have no visible hope of being upstreamed to the kernel; we've only just managed to exorcise the last downstream Realtek drivers from our codebase. You're welcome to self-build custom images with your own driver changes though.

Quote from Fritzables

I installed Kodi Omega and the Diggz Xenon build

This is admittedly on the Firestick not the RPi board, but pirates are pirates. Good luck with your problem somewhere else.