Posts by chewitt

The decision about what to support (or not) belongs to individual maintainers, not me, although there is general agreement among the team to avoid boards with less than 1GB RAM for LE10 and above to avoid a certain category of support issues.

Kodi does not support fade in/out itself, but you could pre-process the video content to include those steps to effect nice transitions between videos in a playlist. I'd assume content used for advertising or kiosk type use-cases? will be pre-processed to ensure everything is correctly encoded for nice output anyway, so I'd build that book-ending step into my encoding pipeline. See https://donaldfeury.xyz/add-fade-in-an…ts-with-ffmpeg/ for one approach.

Kodi supports play/pause/stop and management of what's playing (or playlists) through APIs. It also has controls for speed, but you probably don't want to mess with speed for good output (again, if you do, do it during encoding). There are no controls for Hue and Brightness in Kodi (or at OS level in LE) - in our opinion (and what's been coded for) those belong to the TV not the player software.

LE/Kodi support basic kiosk/advertising type use-cases, but to do something more professional you probably want to develop a custom Skin that avoids OSD pop-ups during transitions and might need to make code changes to add features, and all the code is open-source to help with that kind of thing. NB: LE does not take on 'paid' projects, we're not resourced for that kind of thing. Kodi is much the same although some of their team are independent developers in their day-jobs and might consider paid work; but there is no formal channel to ask for a quote so you'd need to post in their forum and hope someone 'bites' on the opportunity (it's never guraranteed).

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Can you build in some kind of feature, to use 24Hz in case of a 23.976 fps file?
Atm it switches to 60Hz, which is uncomfortable.

I also looked if I can force 10bit output (s905x) - sadly I found nothing.

Is it a feature missing in kodi or lima?

Kodi supports refresh rate bounding/override via advancedsettings.xml; you can define min/max boundaries and what refresh should be picked so you could define 23-24 and force 24Hz instead of using 3:2 pulldown and/or 60Hz.

GXL (S905X) hardware supports 10-bit decoding so you can play 10-bit media, but the SoC internally downmixes to 8-bit HDMI output so it's a hardware restriction and the AVR/TV will always show 8-bit output. GXM (S912) was the first Amlogic SoC to support 10-bit output.

Enable "adjust refresh" so that Kodi switches to the native resolution of the video, and set the mode whitelist in video settings to use 60/59.94/50/24/23.976 modes. Then play some videos and see if that resolved it?

If it was as easy as installing an RPi board I'd show interest. However while it can technically be done, it's not simple, so precisely because "it could be a big thing" is why I'd run for the hills before supporting it .. because endlessly walking people through some fiddly install process on a piece of cheap hardware is not fun. Kodi runs well under Android on Firesticks "as designed" so we'll stick to that.

The original has 6x Channel AC3 audio while the rerip has 2x Channel AAC. Not all AVRs/TVs support AC3 audio tracks, so my hunch is that you have that enabled in Kodi pass-through settings and a receiving device that doesn't support it - hence when you swap audio tracks (that are not AC3) they play, and when you play other content (which is not AC3) it plays, and the rerips (which are not AC3) play. If you disable Kodi AC3 support those tracks will be remixed to multi-channel PCM for output.

Then connman tethering is not the solution you are seeking, because it shares the Ethernet connection behind NAT and has deiberately has zero config options beyond SSID/Passphrase. If you want a proper bridge either learn how to create that at kernel level or buy a WiFi bridge device. I use some older Apple Airport Express devices for testing when I want to avoid the need for WiFi drivers; they are obsolete and thus rather cheap to find on eBay (the last one I grabbed was $12).

I replied in your other thread. Note that we do not support 512MB RAM devices and faking more RAM with swap is not the solution to that.

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I want to try to create an external swap because randomly the system freezes and reboots by itself, the probable symptom is that the RAM memory is full. Trying the free command I see that about 100MB is left available and I think this is causing the random reboots

If the system randomly freezes something like power or disk corruption or an actual code bug are more likely causes. The kernel will actively manage RAM use and if there is ever an Out Of Memory (OOM) scenario the kernel oom-killer function will proactively kill idl/active processes to free space. If that happens it's fairly obvious from logs.

Users are forever seeking some magic cure for "my cheap board doesn't have enough RAM" and the ONLY solution to that problem is buying a less cheap board with more actual RAM. Swap and Zram and such can fake more; but at the cost of reduced I/O performance and high wear on the SD cards that most LE systems run from and/or reduced CPU performance (due to compression) on an already low-end device.

NB: RPi Zero was on the edge of acceptable performance with the older RPi codebase (LE 9.x) which uses highly optimised media drivers. The newer standards-based codebase (LE10/LE11) is in our opinion too heavy for acceptable performance on 512MB devices which is why we have formally dropped support for all boards/devices with 512MB.

You need to manually connect and cache the credential once, then you can connect/disconnect the service in scripts.

connmanctl

agent on

scan wifi

services

connect <service>

<enter pw>

NTFS and exFAT both use native kernel drivers now for better performance. The edges of Hell froze over a bit in the last year or so.

I'd guess through the same methods that Android uses, because that's the only way. It's only firmware that's in the secure world.

It's in one of our tools packages .. I forget which (not near the GUI to look) but "media tools" is probably a good guess.

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and doesn't exist yet.

^ and won't exist, we have better things to be doing with our limited time

If you're able to play other media with audio? .. it's something specific to that file and I'd suggest using "mediainfo" to find out what codecs are needed to play the audio back (maybe some exotic thing or Kodi binary-addon is needed). If you're unable to get audio with other files, then it's something to do with audio configuration (wrong output device or such).

Doh.. I missed the destination folder off .. copy to /storage/.update/ and reboot

wget https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/LibreELEC-AMLGX.arm-10.85.0.tar /storage/.update/
reboot

^ That will update the box to current test code. I wouldn't expect any real-world improvements, but also no harm. There's no need to make new SD cards or back things up.

Capture the projector's EDID data to a static edid.bin file and configure the RPi3 to use this. It's normally used to address issues where the HTPC device is powered on before the TV (and thus HTPC doesn't detect audio and resolutions correctly) but it means the RPi always sees the TV (or Projector) as present and all you do is turn the projector off/on as needed. Instructions should be in the wiki.