What SD card (or image) are you booting from? .. it obviously has u-boot on the card (else it wouldn't boot) but it would be good to know. The fact you can boot something is a good start. What distro do you want it to run? (LE/CE, Armbian, etc.)
Posts by chewitt
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Seeking doesn't work .. I've been told something is missing from the hardware decoder (and the UAPIs for stateful decoders are still not finalised) but playback seems to work. I also have support for the Texas Instruments WiFi/BT in the newer Cubox-i version working and will push changes for that.
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It's trying to accomoate the dumbfuckery of users who store videos, subs and other content inside zip/rar archive files. That ability needs to die in fire or be otherwise exorcised from the Kodi codebase - it's forever causing issues.
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Put Kodi into debug mode and tail the logfile over SSH when you shutdown. Even if the connection is kicked we should maybe see something in the output that gives clues on where the problem lies - pastebin the log/output and share the URL here.
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Most people seeking Amazon content will use the Sandman79 add-on: GitHub - Sandmann79/xbmc: Amazon Instant Video Addon for Kodi Media Center - the Chrome add-on still exists but had a build error and hasn't been fixed/pushed into the repo used with LE10b1 images yet. Chrome runs outside of Kodi so it works but is a bit of a hack.
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If you'd like to learn sending something upstream I'm always happy to coach on the process - it's not that hard and we can review to spot the normal ettiquette mistakes before you send the patch. If not, I'd deferr to HiassofT who will understand what the change does - I don't code
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Things that can be fixed in OS software will be available in OTA updates. Anything needing u-boot updates will be more challenging.
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3D is not currently supported under the GBM/V4L2 video pipeliine and adding support is not a high priority for the Pi Foundation devs. I've been told that adding TAB/SBS support in the future should be possible, but MVC requires more complex changes and MVC ISO support is unlikely to ever be added back to RPi4 (and RPi2/3 once they bump to GBM/V4L2). In the last 8-years of running distros on Pi boards some lessons have been learned and this time around we all (LE, Kodi and Pi Foundation devs) aren't interested in authoring and then maintaining 100,000 lines of code patches that can never be upstreamed to the respective projects 3D depends upon (kernel, kodi, ffmpeg, and more) - it defeats the point of moving everything to a clean upstream codebase.
LE 9.2.6 remains the best option for 3D support.
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Type "pastekodi" at the SSH console
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Trippling the current userbase would give 66x users total. In perspective that is (rounding up slightly) 0.0002% of our total userbase. We simply are not going to add the amount of complexity required for that number of users. If it were a 1000x fold increase we'd be serious about it, but we do know our userbase, and it won't be.
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If running from an SD card you can always tail the Kodi logfile to see what it's doing in the background. If it's churning through a mountain of thumbs and updating library details via scrapers it's best to leave it (or not expect too much) until it's done.
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It's very unlikely you can hear a difference between HD audio formats and LPCM
For iPlayer TV watching and older lower quality DVD rips that's completely true, but when I listen to SACD or watch well mastered 4K UHD rips the difference is - to my ears - quite clear.
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It was probably visible under Android. It won't show under Linux (if it did, the WiFi would probably work). You'll need to open the box, take pics and share them so someone can see what wifi chip/module is used. Then if someone has enthusiasm, some device-tree experiments can be done to enable the card or add the missing driver - no idea what the issue is until we know what hardware is involved.
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Out of interest, with the recent release of Steam Link for more systems by Valve, and the changes for the latest Kodi 19 build on the much newer kernel, does that give any better possibility for Steam Link to work on LibreElec on a Pi4 please? Wondering whether I can do away with my separate RetroPie device at some point and just have the one.
No support for the GBM/V4L2 interface now used in RPi4 and Valve continue to package their pre-compiled stuff around the assumption of a desktop distro which makes it unsuitable/impossible to repurpose.
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I don't see a single good reason why anyone should bother with passthrough.
I run a moderately high-end AVR and speakers arrangement that does a much better job at converting HBR audio into awesome sound than the Kodi PCM output does. So (playing with words) I don't see a good reason, but I frequently hear one.
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so in other words: Libreelec/the drivers actively cock up the simple task of playing the video "as-is" and rather crop/strech the half of it as if I selected to play it as 2D (there is an option for that)
Your overly simplistic assessment of simple task ignores how Kodi rendering and playback actually work, and an entwined combination of kernel drivers, kodi, and ffmpeg need to all be in sync for 3D to work. This time around neither LE or Kodi (or the Pi Foundation) are going to accept a huge invasive patchset that can never be upstreamed (which is the situation for the current RPi3 code) so it will either be done properly (and upstreamed) or not done at all. I've clarified with the devs that TAB/SBS are reasonable to implement, MVC is not, MVC via ISO is unlikely to ever be done, and 3D support overall is in the priority list for "when we did everything else" .. so I wouldn't hold breath.
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People keep quoting the "many would like to encrypt their devices" line to us yet these images which support that have existed for an extended period of time and user numbers remain consistently between 20-30 users total. It's much like how people seeking 4K HDR with DolbyVision support insist that everyone needs it, yet stats show 60% of our userbase runs an RPi board that can't run over 1080p. This is niche and there are no plans to add it into the core distro. Yes user numbers would increase if we did bake it in, but from exprience within our userbase I'd expect 2x to 3x the number, not the 1000x increase that would justify making the change. I'm sure these images will continue to exist and support the limited numbere who do care about encrypting data.
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I have no memory of users raising issues with 3D in the Generic/PC image but that probably means support doesn't exist (and thus nothing to have a problem with) rather that it works problem free. We don't have a bounty system, and development for 3D things will be done by the Pi Foundation devs so donations to LE are always welcome but won't influence the people who need to write the code. It's on their list, but other things have priority.
