Posts by chewitt

  • Audio stutter but only after file has played for ages

    Have a read of this, it describes some of the main video setup things that help playback (even on TV's that are not 4K/HDR):

    https://wiki.libreelec.tv/configuration/4k-hdr

    To get 4K on the streaming services requires a certified device like AppleTV, Google Chromecast, Amazon firestick, or a more general Android device like nVidia Shield. Linux devices are almost non-existent so an LE/Kodi combination is better with offline media and DVB. Personally I'm okay with 720p/1080p for services via Kodi due to better privacy in the OS and apps, but I understand others are more about specs.

  • Audio stutter but only after file has played for ages

    Most of the legal streaming services require Widevine L1 certificates to display higher resolution content, and RPi boards are not "certified" hardware and thus can only see the content available to L3 devices (we fake a web browser). This is generally 720p HD although Netflix can often show 1080p content when available too.

    Are you using adjust-refresh and a mode whitelist to change-to/use the native resolution/refresh of the media being played?

  • Plugin plugin.audio.radio_data

    Python
    2023-09-30 11:33:58.908 T:1502    ERROR <general>: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
                                                    - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
                                                   Error Type: <class 'ModuleNotFoundError'>
                                                   Error Contents: No module named 'kodi_six'
                                                   Traceback (most recent call last):
                                                     File "/storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.audio.radio_data/addon.py", line 16, in <module>
                                                       from kodi_six import xbmc, xbmcgui, xbmcvfs, xbmcplugin, xbmcaddon
                                                   ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'kodi_six'
                                                   -->End of Python script error report<--

    Looks like the add-on depends on a Python module (kodi_six) that isn't installed (or registered as a dependency). Best to report that to the add-on developer(s).

  • No hdmi audio selection on acer AIO pc

    That warning is harmless and irrelevant because LE only uses pulseaudio for BT connections and everything else is native alsa. HDMI cardsnormaly have several card presentations to the OS including an analogue one; which will never support pass-through. Put Kodi in debug mode, restart, than "pastekodi" the entire logfile and share the URL; little snippets are rarely useful.

  • Dolby Atmos with Raspi 5

    Quote from noggin

    AIUI there are reports that h.264 2160p content encoded at the kind of bitrates used for web-based content are decoding in software - at least at 2160p24 level. 1080p h.264/VC-1/AV1 all software decodes OK too I believe.

    Correct. I struggle to find 4K H264 materials, but what I've accumulated over time plays fine and users are welcome to share 30 second clips of specific media for us to experiment with if they like.

  • syslinux fail to initialize ptp_kvm

    Quote from Da Flex

    I guess you have to downgrade LE to get the right NVIDIA driver: Click!

    You can ignore that. It's just default log spam when the Xorg and driver ABI versions aren't quite aligned. If you get output (Kodi starts) things are working enough to ignore the warning.

    I'd go back to the LE10 image and run "systemd-analyze plot > /storage/boot.svg" and then export the .svg file generated and open it in a browser. It will show a graphical display of the boot process and might flag where something's hanging and/or timing out.

  • LibreELEC support for Raspberry Pi 5

    The blog post statement about 58 mins from DHL delivery to first-boot of a working image was me. The family used the first-boot image for a week without noticing I swapped the normal RPi4 for the RPi5 (and then I broke something with a crypto bump and unclean builds and incurred downtime, but that was nothing to do with RPi5). The codebase was already 90% complete long before Pi devs opened up the test group to wider testing. And while there's still lots going on in the kernel, all the media and DRM bits that LE care about most have minimal change from RPi4 so things are stable. TL/DR; RPi5 already runs fine and there's no firmware drama.

  • Error in Mount_storage: mount_common:

    The error to mount is normally caused by the filesystem being marked/detected as "dirty" meaning it has errors. Make sure the card is unmounted cleanly in Windows (or whatever OS the SD card was created from) before removing the SD card, as that can be the cause. The 32MB /storage partition will be automatically deleted and recreated at 100% size during first-boot.

  • apt-get

    LE has a limited number of pre-built add-ons to install things specific to LE or that are useful on a mediacentre HTPC box. If you need anything more we support Docker, which opens up lots of opportunities to run other apps/code in containers.

  • LibreELEC support for Raspberry Pi 5

    Quote from trent

    I have watched several reviews this morning and every time they visit Youtube it is visibly very bad.

    RPiOS has some big plumbing changes to handle with the incoming 'Bookworm' based release and there's new code that's functional but not optimised yet. For sure running a full desktop in the background will incure a penalty over the more minimalist use LE has, but I would expect to see a regular drip-feed of improvements once the dust settles on the board launch. It's not something I'm planning to track mind..