Posts by chewitt

Quote from ejwjohn

So i am struggling to understand why someone has gone to lengths to make this rule?? it's not in any standard that I am aware of, and it's easy to do on other devices so slightly puzzled.

You are welcome to complain to the upstream maintainers of ConnMan who authored/coded the connection manager whose features and capabilities we expose via the dbus agent in the Settings add-on. TL/DR; we didn't code anything or go to any lengths.

Unless you're planning to submit upstream patches to change worklows; the workaround will be to create a systemd service that runs before kodi.target and after network-online.target, that applies your preferred DNS server config to the active ethernet service using a connmanctl command. You'll find some useful prior art for something similar in other forum posts from users trying to change service (routing) order for VPN connections (also done with connmanctl commands).

NB: initial post approval applies to everyone and while your posts might not be visible to all users, they will be visible to mods/staff who are most likely to be the people replying. It is done solely for anti-spam reasons only, and is effective, and the algorithm that auto-manages it normally lifts restrictions quickly. If you're deeply offended by it or ragingly impatient, you're probably in the wrong forum.

Your DNS server failed to resolve "registry-1.docker.io" so the pull failed. Fix the network issue.

False-positives. Automated code-analysis/scanning or process inspection/monitoring tools are both clever and dumb. Off the top of my head I'd expect them to detect and flag that the app is unsigned, downloads files from the internet, destructively writes (overwrites) the boot sector of removable media, and contains Chinese|Russian strings. Those are all characteristics frequently associated with malicious code, but in our case the resulting app is entirely benign.

I have contacts at Crowdstrike so will have a word to see if their false detection can be corrected. I never heard of the other vendor .. so prob. some whizzy new exciteable analysis technology that doesn't work so great.

Thanks for flagging. It's good to know when these things occur.

Windows is a bit stupid and doesn't understand removable media with multiple partitions. Write this 'image' to the card and it will overwrite the MBR partition table; erasing knowledge of the partitions. Windows will then see the SD card as a normal unformatted drive again:

bootsector.img

Shared with Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

NB: The LE USB/SD creator app has this "image" listed under the Tools download section.

More reading: https://kodi.wiki/view/Video_library

Known issue with currently no known fix: https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/issues/7166

Kodi uses the "Videos" menu to give a quick file-browser interface. It does not show any artwork unless the file happens to have been scraped into a library view (and thus references to the artwork-to-use are available). The "Movies" and "TV Shows" menus are library based, you need to "scrape" content in to them; either using internet scrapers or a local file scraper (which would e.g. find local artwork in the same folder). I suggest you have a read of https://kodi.wiki/view/Scrapers.

Not that I'm aware of, but the better place to ask would be the Kodi forums (under add-on development). NB: Profiles is one of the icky areas of the Kodi codebase; lots of old code that is known to have issues and nobody really volunteering to maintain it.

If you're primarily going to use LE, perhaps make a little effort to understand Games in Kodi.

See https://kodi.wiki/view/Games

Quote from thereddestdog

I don't understand Passthrough Audio.. why do we need to enable it at all?

Some/Many users (esp. those with ATMOS and HD-capable audio setups) obsess over quality and pass-through will ensure Kodi processing does not "degrade" their audio experience. In practice multi-channel PCM output is close-enough to pass-through in quality that the silent majority of users probabaly can't tell the difference (or don't care enough about the difference). I personally can hear the difference, but use PCM output 99% of the time simply because it allows volume control to be done from a single remote control; enabling pass-through requires me to dig up the AVR remote instead. I do enable PT occasionally for special films, but that's not often.

You need to share the system journal log showing boot and deletion of something, then the same log showing the reboot/next-boot.

In the ARM SoC world most devices have CEC support built into the HDMI hardware on the board. In the x86(64) world it's rare so regardless of HDMI or DP connection there is probably no CEC support and you'll need to add an IR receiver device. My personal recommendation would be the flirc USB receiver as it's stupidly simple to setup and works with any IR remote you have, but it's not the cheapest and there are plenty of USB IR devices on eBay etc. that can receive commands from an 'MCE' remote or similar.

HDR support in Kodi is still a little WIP but I'd start investigation with the current 'Generic' nightly as this will have newer kernel and drivers and that may (or may not) help with recent-ish Intel hardware.

        if (sector_size != 512 &&                                                         
            sector_size != 1024 &&                                                        
            sector_size != 2048 &&                                                        
            sector_size != 4096) {                                                        
                sd_printk(KERN_NOTICE, sdkp, "Unsupported sector size %d.\n",             
                          sector_size);   

^ the error message in kernel code (drivers/scsi/sd.c) suggests the 256kb size is the issue so I'd suggest reformatting the drive to use at least 512kb or perhaps 1024kb and then restest to see what happens?

Some early support for basic things like pin-ctrl and clocks are being submitted to the upstream kernel. However, the kernel maintainers require things to be done to a much higher standard than Amlogic engineers are used to, so each patchset requires many iterations and progress is proving rather slow. Ask me again in six months.

It's best to ask for help in the add-on support thread in the Kodi forums (most add-ons have one). It's not really a LibreELEC issue.

And what is the default sector size? .. I don't use Windows.

Kodi documentation on emulators is similarly lacking. I've installed https://github.com/zach-morris/plugin.program.iagl and when I select e.g. a SNES ROM Kodi will ask which emulator to use for playback, and if not selecting one that's already present it will install one from the LE add-on repo and then things just play. There is no "Library" for games but I save regular ROMs as favourites and access them direct from there. I also have IAGL configured to cache ROM files to avoid repeat downloads and give faster starts. Other distros like Lakka, RetroPi, Batocera will be more poilished for gameplay and less polished for media. LE is more optimised for media, but the game stuff does work.