Posts by chewitt

  • RFC: a better backup naming

    As there are many opinions and standards for dateTime formats around the world the best option (and likely the only one project staff would accept) is to support the current behaviour as default so nothing breaks on upgrade for existing users, but offer a custom filename option that supports free text and date % variables so people can define their own format if they prefer, whatever that might be.

    As this touches our settings add-on, the main challenge will be finding a Python person to code/implement the changes :)

  • LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.0

    Quote from kenmills

    Sorry if this has been answered but will LE 10.0.1 include the HDR (DRM PRIME) support?

    If your device is not supported for HDR in 10.0.0 it will still be not supported in 10.0.01 .. i.e. it works in RPi4 and some other ARM SoC boards but not the Generic image. HDR in Generic is targetted for LE11 (Kodi 20) once a lot more development and testing has been done.

  • Khadas Vim 3

    LE supports VIM3 (all variants) for some time, but only using mainline kernel images which are in rather raw state - nightlies will resume at some point soon. The better option will be the current CE image which can be installed using the Khadas Krescue downloader/SDcard.

  • 1080p HD Playback Stuttering

    Quote from p_g_787

    Someone recently send me a link to the Broadcom Crystal HD bcm70012. It is a hardware decoder card for H254 video.

    Is this compatible with LibreElec?

    It was supported in the mk1 AppleTV images that I used to create (2011-2016 in OpenELEC days) but support in Kodi was dropped in Kodi Krypton (v17) and there are no plans to resurrect that or restore support in LE images.

  • Updating from Kodi 17.3 to 18 on a Nexbox a95x

    Quote from tiku

    Hello Friend, OK I have a Genereic S905 1gb/8gb, By the name MXS Plus, its identical to Mxq Pro, at present i am running Librelec 8.0.2 which has Kodi 17.3, On EMMC, The libreelec 8.0.2 has been Given to me by the supplier in .Img file as well as in Update.rar format (LibreELEC-Amlogic.aarch64-MXSPlus-8.0.3-update), Since its outdated, can you please guide me how do i migrate from LE-CE 9.0.1,. Thanks

    Have a look at the images created by dtech in these forums.

  • LibreELEC won't play my webm files

    You can do "cat /path/to/log | paste" and share URLs that don't require staff to download, save, open, text files. It might sound petty.. but repeat it a few thousand times and see the novelty wear off. I also use pastebin all day without a pro account so I'm not sure what special thing you're doing but it shouldn't be needed.

  • LibreELEC won't play my webm files

    Pi hardware has no hardware decode support for VP8 media, but it's hard to see what the issue might be since it's not a debug log.

    Please provide a full debug log.

    How to post a log (wiki)

    1. Enable debugging in Settings>System Settings>Logging
    2. Restart Kodi
    3. Replicate the problem
    4. Generate a log URL (do not post/upload logs to the forum)

    use "Settings > LibreELEC > System > Paste system logs" or run "pastekodi" over SSH, then post the URL link

  • Scaling and whitelist

    Projectors generally switch resolutions slower than TVs do so the goal is to eliminate or minimise the refresh rate switching. So lets assume you mostly play DVDs/Movies which have a native 23.976Hz refresh rate; set the Kodi desktop to [email protected] and now there is no transition when playing media. You will still see it when e.g. playing PAL media (25Hz). The alternative is to switch Kodi to 1080@60 and disable the whitelist and adjust-refresh completely, and all media will be upscaled/adapted to 1080@60. You might see the occasional glitch in playback but generally Kodi handles this well, and as the picture on a projector is not as sharp as an LCD/OLED panel you probably won't notice.

  • HC4 liveTV issue - distorted image

    I want to point out (again) that the colour distortions and green lines in the images in post #1 are due to the current Amlogic hardware video-decode driver. It is not in a good state. It generally works okay with older Amlogic hardware and less okay with newer. The driver is in staging and is effectively unmaintained for 2+ years, and it predates SM1/S905X3 hardware being released. There is also a dependency on the codec and version of firmware blobs being used (lots of variables).

    You should be aware that current LE (needed for some level of HC4 support) is running completely different kernel codebase and drivers to older harware running older LE images or CE which are using vendor kernels. The upstream kernel and vendor kernel drivers have zero in-common.

  • RPI4 - LibreElec - AC1300 - T3U

    Quote from pcihlar

    I would like to connect it by WiFi USB Adapter AC1300. Is it possible?

    It depends on the chipset. If there are drivers for that chipset in the Linux 5.11 kernel it will be supported. If there are not, it won't be. If you run "lusb | paste" from SSH and share the URL we can see what it is. NB: if the answer is "Realtek" we probably don't have the driver and have no interest in adding the driver (until the driver is upstream and we can enable support via kernel configuration, not vendor drivers).

  • OpenPHT - Plex Home Theater 1.9 FOR S905 S805 S912 WeTek Play 2 and other devices based on LibreELEC 8.2

    I have zero knowledge of OpenPHT and Kwiboo is not active these days to ask, but an S905W box will be booting from Amlogic "vendor" u-boot which has an environment where persistent settings can be stored and if booting something based on the older Amlogic 3.14 kernel it is possible to write/change settings from userspace, so you can do things which change settings (without knowing) and the reboot into Android can equally reset things to good defaults again.