Posts by chewitt

Quote from shad

Now I’m a bit lost and would like to ask, what box / SoC with AV1 HW support should I look at, which is supported by LE? Any new recommendations one year since the last post here?

AV1 requires the latest Intel chips, which are still a little experimental in places, but you know Intel is committed and will push all the driver support upstream within a reasonable amount of time. None of the SBCs have upstream support at this stage. FWIW, I've always regarded Ugoos as one of the cheaper and more awkward vendors - but that's probably because they refuse to share sources and schematics for the boxes (I'm biased).

Pics show a random circuit board with an assortment of standard connectors; it could be anything. The sole useful bit of info is on the chip under the heatsink. Unless you share that I can only make blind guesses, and I guess your box is not supported.

The name means nothing and "rxj1909-MB-v06" returns zero results in Google so we have no clue (we are not omniprescient or mind-readers). You will probably need to power it on and see what Android claims it is. Worst case you will need to open up the box and take some close-up and in-focus pics of the board with the chip exposed. If any of that seems like too much effort, you should probably stick to Android.

I'd recommend Musicbrainz Picard for organising audio files: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ as it will also embed their IDs in the files which guarantees things scrape well. It's also the app used by the folks who dev on Audio topics in Team Kodi. Reworking a large library with Picard might take time, but it's one of those tasks that you only need to do properly once, and then future re-scrapes (should they ever be needed) become simple.

If you really want to do things manually.. have a read https://kodi.wiki/view/Scraping_Music

U-boot can boot from an EXT4 boot partition; assuming the embedded bootscript that searches for boot files (extlinux.conf, or boot.ini, etc.) has been adapted to it. LE scripts assume FAT, so you things like "fatload" in them.

SSH into the box and run the commands "dmesg | paste" and "fw_printenv | paste" then share the URLs generated.

Yes, it's broken for a while now (and nobody understands Qt properly to fix it). Please use Etcher to create USB/SD cards.

U-boot also allows the entire boot process to be encrypted/signed and protected; but this requires support for those things in Silicon which increases costs, so you almost never see it with cheap TV box devices.

It looks like "quiet" is missing from boot params (so you see the earlycon boot content).

RPi4 can boot via u-boot, but it's not needed and we don't use it with LE images for RPi devices. And if the user needs to ask Q's at the current level the likelihood of them building a custom image that implements u-boot support for RPi in LE is rather unlikely IMHO.

liberi That isn't going to work on an RPi4 which doesn't use Grub2 (or any other normal bootloader).

Take a backup of the .kodi folder and contents from the RPiOS install, store it somewhere safe. Once you installed LE via PINN or NOOBS for some level of multi-boot support you can copy the backup file over and manually restore content by stopping Kodi, moving files to the right places, restarting Kodi again.

NB: It is not possible to install LE into a partition. It is not possible to use an NTFS drive as the /storage partition. You can use the NTFS drive as a separate media drive that's shared between several OS without issues, but /storage needs Unix filesystem permissions support.

I know nothing about RK hardware

Older devices may also need the "Use Legacy Security" option enabled.

It means I won't be publishing more LE10 images, as I moved my codebase forwards onto the master branch (K20 pre-alpha). See:

amlogic: bump to Linux 5.15.y and other misc. changes by chewitt · Pull Request #5920 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv

This bumps Amlogic (GX) to Linux 5.15.y with the following notable changes: Switch bootloader/install to use Makefiles in amlogic-boot-fip sources Move…

github.com

For the crackling audio, see if reducing volume on the mixer to ~80% helps. It seems to be a common remedy to similar reports on a large variety of cards (not specifically Amlogic). Thanks for sharing the mixer settings, I will validate and add to our soundconfig script.

Index of /testing/

As long as the binaries are in the $PATH it doesn't matter whether they were embedded into the image or packaged as an add-on.

https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/ has some experimental K19 and K20 images for C2. There are bugs, but H264/1080p works well enough and if you avoid fiddling with Kodi audio settings you shouldn't trip the main unresolved audio bug too often. The C2 image boots and runs Kodi 19 at least. I don't plan on maintaining the Matrix images as I've moved the codebase to (pre-Alpha) Nexus now. NB: You cannot update with these images as the boot process is completely different to older releases, so you must clean install.