Posts by chewitt

Known issue. We need to backport the LE11 fix to LE10 and then build a replacement add-on. That should happen in the next 24-48h.

Quote from crazyazz

I have an old build LibreELEC-S912.arm-8.2.5-Chroma.422.10bit.img that works flawlessly.

I cant find out builds anymore, where they all deleted?

Nothing to do with me so can't help.

Quote from crazyazz

All media, from 1080P H264 , AVI to DVD VOB files. Audio output is from the mecool analogue out.

And what is the playback resolution? - TV or Monitor?

HDMI output should not have issues. The Analogue audio output is somewhat untested.

crazyazz What resolution and bit-depth is the media being played, and what resolution is the TV when the pink line shows? .. or are you using a monitor? .. and what audio device is connected: HDMI, S/PDIF or Analogue?

IR controllable power socket? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284397741540

[global]
allow insecure wide links = yes

[library]
follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes

Absorb those bits ^ to the custom samba.conf then reboot and try to connect again. Working?

Nothing changed in Samba or our Samba config for aeons but if this is a removable drive, is it NTFS formatted? .. because we switched from using FUSE to native in-kernel NTFS drivers since LE9.2 and that may explain the difference in behaviour.

Quote from crazyazz

Please forgive my ignorance, but what do I need to instal for my Mecool M8S PRO L? Also on another note, is it possible to install these images on the internal storage instead of SDCARD?

Q1 - Read this wiki article https://wiki.libreelec.tv/hardware/amlogic

Q2 - No. Read the statement at the bottom of ^ that article

Just take a backup using the LE settings add-on and move the tar archive file somewhere safe. Clean install using the latest nightly image, and if things like previously watched status are super important to you; then put the file on the new install and manually unpack it somewhere to allow simple restore of things to where they need to be in the filesystem (easy to Google for that info). If you're not bothered with status then just go about setting up sources and scraping media again. I would caution against simply restoring the backup as a) this will restore Python2 add-ons to a system that no longer runs them and this is a frequent cause of update issues, b) most installs will benefit from not restoring the accumulated years of cruft from the old install (spring cleaning).

Quote from MartinS Tokyo

Any hints and ideas welcome. Would like to get this running asap.

Any difference with LE 10.0.4? .. or this nightly? RE: LE 10.0.1 / Rpi4 / No picture after update from LE 10.0.0

Quote from PhoenixBG

Kodi 20 stable is ready! We will be very happy if you (chewitt and the other LE team members) include all this Amlogic fixes and tweaks in LibreELEC stable release. Thank you for your support and good attitude towards us - the common users.

Current plan is to resume support for GXBB/GXL/GXM devices. Images are not perfect but more than usable for average users with average media media collections that are mostly 1080p based, although S905X/D and S912 do support 4k/HDR playback. The same images can be installed on newer devices but the hardware decode drivers have greater issues on newer hardware so those are really limited to software-only decoding (1080p max) and to set low expectations and keep things sensible we will state those are not supported. All recent changes in my branches are upstreamed to GitHub master branch yesterday. There is still more general stuff to get shipshape before an LE11 release can be announced .. I'd expect another 7-10days is required.

Quote from tomaszc

Are these FFMpeg changes already in the last image on test.libreelec.tv or only on chewitt.libreelec.tv? Would you mind writing who is behind these changes, someone has taken it upon themselves to fix it, or maybe it's to your credit?

https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/pull/7387 was merged yesterday along with a few other things so the next round of images on the test server should contain the same content as the images on my share. The FFMpeg changes are by John Cox @ Raspberry Pi foundation. He is not working on Amlogic support, but we have common goals for v4l2_m2m support in FFMpeg and care that the current codebase that he is working on supports a range of SoCs and not just RPi boards. To further that I regularly test his experimental changes and provide feedback (especially when regressions are involved). In this case, a change made definitely helps with HEVC seeking. It's not a full fix though; that will almost certainly need changes to the kernel driver (which is lacking developers for aeons) but an improvement is still an improvement.

I have a hunch on the rar archive support add-on?

Quote from Martin Goose

When I put the 4 files from LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-10.0.4.tar into the update folder on the RPi and reboot it objects to one of the updates as having an incorrect md5 sum. I checked the md5 sum was correct before trying again but still the same error.

Just use the settings add-on. Put it in manual udpate mode and select the 10.0.4 file and let it download clean. Working?

Quote from Martin Goose

Will LE11 be an update for LE10.x or will a clean install be advised?

You can update from LE10 to LE11. You cannot (or should-not) update from LE9.x or earlier to LE11 due to Python3 changes.

I can see the drive being detected, mounted, and samba services starting. No errors .. so no idea what the issue is

systemctl stop kodi
mv /storage/.kodi /storage/.kodi-old
reboot

It looks like have reused an existing drive that's had Kodi installed (as without a GUI you wouldn't be able to install a pile of add-ons) so this ^ moves all Kodi configuration, add-ons and such out of the way to give a clean/vanilla Kodi instance. You can always stop/delete/move things back as they were. Does it work now?

Kodi caches the repo to reduce requests on infrasttructure so you may need to right-click and force the repo to be refreshed before the new add-on version will be shown/seen locally.

Kodi accesses media from "sources" and sources can be configured with different scraper settings. So you can have a source for commercial movies that uses the established conventions for filenames and online scraping and works with the TMDB scraper, and a separate source that uses the "local" file scraper only; that can reference local .nfo files and artwork created for each movie.

If you want personal movies to appear in a library view, the movie must be scraped to the library and that means the local file scraper requires a local .nfo file to scrape content from. Kodi itself will not auto-generate .nfo files but LE being Linux and thus scriptable (and with cron if the script needs to run repeatedly) it's not hard to script and automate creation of a basic .nfo files with minimal content. If there is no matching artwork for the local movie Kodi will grab a frame and show it, though the results can be a bit random.

The alternative is to access personal movies from the "Videos" menu. If you are accessing a source that has also been scraped to the Library Kodi shows the Library content overlaid, but otherwise it's just a raw view of files in folders and Kodi shows the filenames and a frame that has been extracted from the media file. This seems to be what you're looking for?