Posts by chewitt

Kodi displays a percentage indicator on-screen when playback stalls and the 'stream' needs to be buffered again. There's a multitude of reasons for a stream to stall and never recover, but the main candidates are a bug or something in the hardware decoder, or something in the media that ffmpeg doesn't handle right.

Things to try:

a) Disable DRMPRIME and hardware decoding. If the media now plays (software decoded) the issue is in the hardware decoder.

b) If not 'A' the enable things again and update to a current LE12 nightly since this has newer everything

c) If not resolved with 'B' share a reasonable snippet of media so that Pi engineers can have a look.

And if posting again, share a debug log that demonstrates the issue.

You cannot write (dd) anything from the u-boot console. Even if you could, you would fail writing to emmc since that's what the device has booted u-boot from (at some point you overwrite the code you're running). The board should boot from USB in addition to SD though; although you might need to manually start USB from the usb console before manually running bootscript commands.

Specs claim that it's an S905 (GXBB) so the AMLGX "box" image should work from SD card. You'll need to experiment with different "gxbb" device-tree files to see what works best. Read: https://wiki.libreelec.tv/hardware/amlogic#box-images

Quote from AiRLAC

You happen to have a dd backup of the Wetek Hub factory image?

backup-hub.tar.gz

Shared with Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

Quote from WarpLover

I am about to use emmctool and want to verify that the Play2 chip I am about to flash is a qualcomm?

Nope. Amlogic S905.

Library databases are in /storage/.kodi/userdata/Databases (from memory) as versioned sqlite .db files, e.g. MyVideos121.db; the databases are not .xml files.

Quote from JohnWayne111

What do you think about a LE 11 support for PI 5 ? Is it possible?

If yes, must we have to wait for a Kodi Nexus 20.3 release?

Kodi still has the intent to make a 20.3 release but there are complications with shipping another K20 Android release via the Google Play store as Google now requires a minimum API version that's higher than K20 implements (and each API bump typically requires some finessing in Kodi code). The route forwards hasn't been agreed yet.

If/when/once https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/pull/8181 is merged support will be in nightlies; although personally I'd still prefer the team to focus on an LE12 release; while LE11 compiles fine I'm not sure anyone put some testing miles on it and users expect "stable" releases to be, well, stable.

I think we reached the point where the current legacy driver needs to be bumped from 340.xx to something newer due to compat issues; but this will inevitably drop support for older nVidia devices. Or we drop nVidia support completely.. because stats show that most of active nVidia installs are using the legacy driver (the non-legacy driver has few users).

I rather doubt anyone on staff will leap down the rabbit-hole of trying to describe something that complex to a novice user. It can be done, but it's one of those topics where if you need to ask how it's done you probably shouldn't be doing it.

Plan B: Move the data somewhere else. Reformat the drive. Move the data back .. this is much (much) easier.

Quote from Billzilla

Where do I start looking for a solution please?

What add-ons are installed?

Quote from chewitt

I think their algorithm detects Kodi and assumes piracy. I've appealed it.

The appeal was successful so that cheap YouTube video on a borrowed TV has been reinstated

Quote from AC7777

I get this message during boot: "1.1784097 fail to initialize ptp_kvm". Maybe it's related to my problem?

100% sure this is harmless and not related.

It would need to be packaged into a Kodi binary add-on (as part of Hyperion would make sense) and then cross-compiled/built from source using the LE build-system. Then you install the binary add-on in Kodi. It's probably some way off from that point ..

Quote from Csanesz

Is it possible to install the OpenVPN server (not client!) under LibreELEC?

LibreELEC bundles the OpenVPN binary in the OS; it's entirely up to you whether you execute daemon instances with server or client (or both) configs, although 99% of the info you'll find in this forum solely discusses client matters.

Please update to a current LE12 nightly and see if the issue is resolved? (current nightlies are solid/stable to use)

The nature of support forums is that users who don't have problems generally don't show up and post about their lack of problems. Hence you don't find posts about LE11 and the MariaDB add-on. It works; there are probably a few thousand people just using it

Quote from tomstephens89

I pre ordered a Pi5 8GB so can't wait to see if it increases the menu/UI performance.

RPi4 wasn't really "slow" but there's an obvious increase with RPi5