kodiuser1 I've deleted all the LE10 images from my share now (as no intention to maintain them) so all images are pre-Alpha Nexus (K20) but at this point in the Kodi cycle the DB versions haven't changed and I'm not aware of any Kodi bugs that break anything. Use the 'box' image and set the dtb name in uEnv.ini to something suitable for whatever the box is (S912 devices are all very simliar).
Posts by chewitt
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LE 9.0 image is on the downloads page: https://releases.libreelec.tv/LibreELEC-Odro…rm-9.0.2.img.gz
Nexus testing imiage is here: https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/LibreE…droid-c2.img.gz
You can use Etcher or any other SD card writing app to write the image to the card.
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LE images for Amlogic are using the upstream kernel. H264 is fine. HEVC works great in older SoC generations like S905X, but needs work with the newer devices like S922X. However, if you only need 1080p, you can always disable hardware decoding completely and use software which is no problem for the CPU on N2+ .. and while it will run warmer the N2/N2+ boards are basically a huge heatsink with a small board attached so it's no drama. The VDEC stuff is being poked, slowly. You also have the option to run CE with Amlogic legacy kernels.
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S905X3 devices aren't well supported by LE at this time. CE would be better, but I don't use it so can't really offer an opinion on it.
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The LE11 images in my share are updated with changes that restore hardware-decoding in ffmpeg, thanks to Raspberry Pi Foundation devs who are interested to see their v4l2_m2m patchest for RPi working on other devices - which is a bit of a detour from their day-job but will help them upstream RPi support at some point. Seeking in playing media does not currently work, but we are still exploring how that might be done. It won't be a quick thing to solve, but keep your fingers crossed.
One rather positive outcome of more-stable ffmpeg is 8-bit HEVC working nicely on GXBB/GXL/GXM devices, and on GXL/GXM this now allows 4K/HDR media playback to work (Yes, HDR!). GXBB also supports 4K HEVC, but as most 4K HEVC media is HDR (which GXBB lacks) and 4K H264 is not implemented in the current driver; so in practical terms GXBB remains a 1080p device.
On newer G12A/G12B/SM1 hardware support for 8-bit HEVC media should be okay, but 10-bit HEVC media (most/all 4K HDR media) crashes the hardware decoder and locks-up the board. It's something that needs to be poked - or perhaps we can disable the 10-bit path and force 8-bit ouptut to make things more usable until someone has time to investigate it properly.
All things considered, it's been a good week for progress
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Some kind of NUC like device is good. RPi4 is good. TV boxes are 50/50. The X96-Air will be supported by CE, but LE images are still rather WIP on newer Amlogic hardware (better on older). There is zero upstream support for S905X4 currently.
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The box is probably booting and you can login over SSH to get logs which will explain the issue. Logs will also show what the hardware is and what LE version is installed .. else we can only blind guess at your issue, and generally we suck at that.
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crazyturk Are you using a full-size SD card or a micro-SD in an adapter? - I have problems with adapters; most of the ones I have do not work with the box, but one "works enough" for the box to read mainline u-boot in the first 1MB from the SD card, and this will then search and find extlinux.conf on a USB stick to boot the box. Once I was able to boot into LE I could download the image to /storage and write it to eMMC with "emmctool".. and from that point I no longer need the USB stick and SD card arrangement. It helps to watch the boot process; the DB9 port on the rear is wired for UART.
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The dedicated Hub image is for my experiements with mainline u-boot (on SD card) which requires the emmc storage to be erased. It works well for WP2 but not Hub for some reason - to be investigated sometime when I have time. If you have vendor u-boot installed still the 'box' image is the one to use.
PCM audio still has some issues with channel mapping but Pass-Through HDMI audio should work fine.
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LE uses /flash/config.txt .. use "mount -o remount,rw /flash" to make it editable from SSH.
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Boot the RPi4 and check the MAC address for the wlan0 interface, then reboot, and check the MAC again. Does the MAC remain the same, or does it change with every boot?
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Being German doesn't grant you a right to consume German Netflix, even if you do pay for the service - it's geo circumvention and this is clearly against their T&Cs.
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I'm not seeing anythng in the issue report that says it is an older Atom/ION machine? - but if iit was, ION = nVidia and there is no support for nVidia GPUs in LE11 'Generic' images so you'd need to self-compile the 'Generic_Legacy' version (while this is still possible).
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You're absolutely not interested in other people who want to help.
That's wrong. We love it when users help. We love it even more when they fact-check help instead of making guesses and incorrect statements that cause confusion.
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The LE 10.80.0 (Nexus) images in my team share https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/ contain an experimental fix from Martin B for "the noise" that can be experienced with GXBB, GXL and GXM devices using the AIU audio driver. If you have an S905, S905X/D/W/Y or S912 device; please reduce volume on your TV or AVR, update the image, then spend a few minutes navigating around and fiddling with switches and options in the Kodi audio settings page (normally an easy way to provoke that audio problem). Please post back with success or reports of 'the noise' or crackling or other audio oddities you experience?
NB: These images have partially workiing hardware decode again, using the same ffmpeg patch-set as Raspnerry Pi. This is progress, but it means playback is worse in real-terms since ~50% of things now fail, whereas recent images had software-only decode (completely broken hardware decode) where 100% of 1080p media plays within CPU limits. TL/DR; If you're trying to run these images for daily use, you probably want to disable hardware decoding.
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It's not a typo, and please stop hijacking threads with advice if you don't actually know the answer.
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Kodi has a user interface that's been designed (it didn't just happen that way) to fit onto a TV screen. If you hack the default fonts to be bigger that throws a whole heap of things out of visual alignment and the defaul GUI (skin) will start looking rubbish. Kodi does support other skins, and some of them may allow the font size to be configured, and/or some of them simply use different sized fonts. Experiment .. because that can be done from a remote without needing to override Font files from the SSH console. Plan B .. get a bigger TV. Plan C .. sit closer to the TV screen. NB: If you think our dumbed-down OS is too complicated for you, please feel free to use something else.
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It's not impossible to add an NFS server, but it does require some developer skills and buliding a custom image. Have a look at the commits in escalade RetroELEC GitHub repo for more details.
