Posts by chewitt

You need to create multiple .config files (fr.config, ch.config, be.config, etc.) instead of putting multiple configs in one file.

You've erased u-boot. Your best hope/option going forwards is to find an Amlogic burning tool image on freaktab or similar. We have no real expertise or interest in Android images, and that's what you need to restore a working boot environment.

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Is it actually the OS like the sbc versions?

Does it support a mouse or touch screen or does it need a dedicated remote?

It's exactly the same OS, only compiled for x86_64 CPU architecure and with different GPU drivers to suit "PC" hardware. It supports a mouse the same as the ARM/SBC releases. It could support a touchscreen; depending on the exact/specific hardware having drivers in the kernel or can be enabled in the kernel. Most users will attach some kind of remote; either the 'wireless' keyboard type, or an IR sensor like flirc.tv with a spare IR remote, or a BT remote. Unlike ARM devices, CEC is rarely supported in the PC world.

Add-on:SFTP support - Official Kodi Wiki

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My setting is 1080/50 but the WIKI recommendation is 4096x2160 @ 60Hz (highest supported resolution of my TV) or not?

1080@60 (and whitelists for 4K modes, as you've done) would be our recommendation. The skin is 720p or 1080p (not sure which) so the TV does a better job of scaling an already rendered image to 4K than Kodi does using CPU to scale the content to render. Few people have HTPC devices with the CPU to handle 4K GUI smoothly.

I'm wondering if there's a restriction on switching to something lower than the GUI resolution (1080p). The logs will show more I think.

I can see that "720x576 @ 50.000000 Hz" is in the whitelist. Please ensure "adjust refresh" is enabled then reboot (to create a clean log) and play something that should be switched to that resolution, then share the log URL.

2023-01-21 12:57:25.898 T:751      info <general>: Found resolution 720x576 with 720x576 @ 50.000000 Hz
2023-01-21 12:57:25.898 T:751      info <general>: Found resolution 720x480 with 720x480 @ 59.940063 Hz

^ the 4:3 modes are present.

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On the Vero 4K+ (Linux OSMC) I'll have to look later.

The Amlogic vendor kernel might work, but it is definitely not a reference 'Linux' implementation

What did you update from? (LE9, LE10, another LE11 nightly). Share logs:

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there is no playback at the moment for v4l/panfrost?

What about the avl tuners or other usb tuners/demods in LE nigthly - also no playback ?

Panfrost/Lima render the Kodi GUI (2D) and nothing more, they have nothing to do with video decoding. There are hardware video decode (and software decode) drivers using GBM/V4L2. However you still need something to take the transport stream from the tuner/demod and demux it into a supported video and audio format for playback. I've started poking around with other demod/tuner drivers and have some that compile, but none probe hardware yet (the code needs amending for upstream GPIO) and none are in nightlies. Even if we can get them to probe hardware there is still the same "missing demux" issue.

Do you actually have any media outside of 576@25 (PAL) and [email protected] (NTSC) .. because ye olde analogue broadcast standards certainly don't include those refresh rates; which is prob. why Linux doesn't invent/expose them.

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And yesterday I was able to turn on the dvb demodulator for the first time. I don't know much about such things. Wish me luck.

I'm not the expert on DVB topics so could be wrong/misinformed, but my current understanding is that loading the demod/tuner drivers is 2/3 of the puzzle, and playback will not be possible until someone authors a demux driver.

Whitelist the 1080p @ 60/59.94/50/24/23.98 modes and enable adjust-refresh (start/stop) and allow mode doubling (so 25Hz is rendered at 50Hz, etc) then Kodi will upscale the PAL resolutions to 1080p, you can handle deinterlaced media, and you have no missing modes. Even if those modes did exist under Linux something still needs to scale the output to 1080p so you might as well have Kodi do it.

You don't need to install sqlite3 since it is already installed/present in the OS. And you don't need to prefix commands with 'sudo' to run them as root since you are already the root user. TL/DR; Just run the fix commands.

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How is it possible that this one cable works on my television decoder, but not no the NUC? I was convinced that the cable was fine... And it works on other devices (also my kids Xbox and so on).

If it was working under older LE Generic releases you will prob. need to use the Generic-Legacy (X11) image as Generic now runs GBM which probably has no 3D support.