Posts by chewitt

2021-09-17 11:32:31.457 T:779     DEBUG <general>: [WHITELIST] whitelisted modes:
                                                   2560x1440 @ 60.000000 Hz
                                                   1920x1080 @ 50.000000 Hz
                                                   1920x1080 @ 29.970032 Hz

^ this is the original log that you posted. Set the Kodi desktop to 1080p60, then allow doubled rates, and whitelist 3840x2160 @ 30/29.97/25/24/23.976, and 1920x1080 @ 60/59.97/50/24/23.976 modes. Enable "adjust refresh" on start/stop, and check for glitchy playback again.

The hardware video decoder in the mainline kernel is a bit rough, so these are known issues with no specific fix in sight. You're probably better off using CE on an HC4 at this time.

LE10 no longer supports many of the historical config.txt hacks as the RPi Foundation developers have moved functionality away from firmware hacks into the core kernel DRM (rendering) driver. See if adding "video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080M@60" to cmdline.txt works?

use connman_main.conf not connman.main.conf

You're running 9.97.1 not 10.0.0, so update first and retest. Then if still an issue check the whitelist entries. Then if still an issue check without the Argon case involved.

Have a look at this for some basics https://wiki.libreelec.tv/development-1/git-tutorial

2GB or 4GB shouild deliver an identical experience with LE, so no harm to swap them over.

There are no software differences between models, and nothing to be set. I'm not seeing HEVC issues with my own 8GB board so it's more likely to be something environmental or media related on your end. If it's something that you can consistently reproduce, please provide Kodi debug logs so we can investigate.

Well done. Commit the changes and push them to GitHub so others can follow in your footsteps later.

Standard problems are poor quality HDMI cables and inadequate PSU.

tomaszc The upstream kernel audio drivers are completely different (as with most upstream things) so while the card name is different, I know this is not the issue. The alsa card conf associated with the card may be more to blame, but why and how to fix it are the challenge.

No logs = No problem. Oh well.

You wait patiently until 10/12-bit support has been added. Until then you can watch 10-bit content downsampled to 8-bit output, which works fine with the 10.0.0 release.

In short, there is no list, because it would be a full-time job to maintain and we're all unpaid volunteers. The upstream kernel sources are the best thing to check. If you find Hauppague (or other) drivers there the hardware is much easier for us to support.

The official Raspberry Pi OS shouldn't be far behind LE in terms of playback; the Pi Foundation devs use LE as a testbed for media things and then backfil the required firmware, kernel and ffmpeg changes once things are proven. If they are lagging behind you should also be able to self-update key packages to use the same source versions/patches that LE runs .. to achieve a similar experience.

NB: It's not impossible to develop things with LE, but the workflow of updating sources, updating a package, rebulding the image, updating the OS .. is less intuitive to developers who are often used to fiddling with code, building, and then running code in-situ.

Simple test is to stop Kodi, rename /storage/.kodi/userdata/guisettings.xml to guisettings-old.xml and restart Kodi. This will give you clean defaults to see if that's the issue. You can always rename back to revert the change.

The 10.80.0 URL is correct, it means we can step through pre-Alpha, Alpha, Beta, RC and then finally 11.0.0 as the release version. However we are still in the process of merging a large backlog of package change for LE11 (master branch) so we didn't build and publish add-ons yet.

Quote from Rens

is it also possible to run C programs

Sure, you can run C programs. You won't be able to compile them on the box though as there are no compile tools in the OS. I suggest you read https://wiki.libreelec.tv/development-1/build-basics and familiarise yourself with how our distro is packaged. If you want to develop things we are probably not the distro you're looking for