Posts by chewitt

Test LibreELEC images with KODI-18 for S9xxx

Make a backup. If you don't like it, revert back.

Both error messages are harmless.

A quick peek at stats shows more active Rock64 installs than any other RK board, although the numbers aren't large enough to rule our abnormal install behaviours, e.g. it could represent more happy users than any other board, or more frustrated users repeatedly reinstalling

99% of the time when someone complains about Krypton they're complaining about the skin change. The older Confluence skin is still actively maintained and available from the Kodi repo.

Active work in progress. Very active

Quote from Shoog

Why would you expect it to, no one here is developing builds for the N2 yet.

Our single AMLG12 image now runs on both G12A and G12B hardware variants (including the N2) and in the next week a proper N2 install image will be available. It will be as non-functional as other G12 devices right now (same codebase, same things missing) but audio support will land soon which will get the ball rolling.

Have a look at unRAID .. ISTR they support LE running on their hypervisor.

None of the LE staff have touched the 3.14 kernel in some time. It's a bit like a set of sports kit that you left in a bag three months ago and if you open the bag it really stinks, so it's easiest to just leave the bag closed. Our development focus has been on the mainline kernel for some time now and once you start moving downhill off the mountain of stupid stuff the legacy kernel requires, choosing to stumble uphill again just doesn't happen.

Test LibreELEC images with KODI-18 for S9xxx has balbes150 images which are largely based on my amlogic branch in GitHub which will get merged into our main repo once Linux 5.1 drops. The mainline kernel has some feature gaps but for most use is stable and quite usable.

1080p should be fine but 4K is not possible without an OS that supports HDCP on the video pipeline. There is development in that direction for Linux on Intel hardware but exactly what hardware ends up supported and when it happens are total unknowns (not anytime soon).

Once multi-channel audio and pass-through become supported .. there will be some kind of announcement. Until you see the announcement, 2.0 is as good as it gets (same for Amlogic and Rockchip).

        <source>
            <name>MEDIA</name>
            <path pathversion="1">smb://user:pass@NAS/MEDIA/</path>
            <allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
        </source>

I edit /storage/.kodi/userdata/sources.xml directly (not via the GUI) as I find it easier/faster than spelling stuff on a remote with no keyboard and the format is pretty simple to follow ^

If you're sharing from a machine that uses DHCP make sure you use the hostname (NAS in the example above) else the DB will break when the host changes IP address.

Quote from Sholander

Ha ha ha.., he still haunts you, so you are still having nightmares and losing sleep over him

Thankfully he's someone else's nightmare to contend with these days, not ours. Not much sleep lost to his trolling

The reason the TB image is not listed in the USB/SD Creator app is we need to modify the app to not crash when RK images with suffixes are listed in the JSON data. Fixing that is somewhere on our to-do list, but not yet at the top of the list.

NB: All of our RK images are currently in a persistent 'alpha' state while we finish reworking the codebase around the mainline kernel .. the alpha's use the older RK 4.4 kernel. That work is approaching the point where we can switch and then start the journey towards LE10 which is when things should be officially official.

Sorry I missed that. We have an (unsupported) OVA for vmware that we use for development work but Virtual PC, VirtualBox, Parallels, HyperV, KVM etc. all require drivers that we don't have in the distro images. There's no plan to change that.

Kodi will remove nVidia support sometime soon, but that only impacts development for v19 and the release date for that is still a long way off. So have a play with LE (using the nVidia card that works with v18) and worry about the upgrade when the time comes, by which time there will be updated and new hardware available to choose from.

We all need to take a deep breath and recite "fcuk off Adam" a few times (genuflecting optional) and hope that Smurfette can find something more productive to do with "her" time.

Blu-ray [LibreELEC.wiki]

^ BR playback is possible-ish, but not the "put disc in and it always works" solution that everyone looks for

I rarely use Desktop Linux so have no suggestions. You'll have to research that yourself.