Posts by chewitt

    It's not clear which device you do want to use, but assuming it's the AMD card the following will blacklist the nVidia driver module and prevent it from being loaded at boot time; at which time only the AMD card should be usable and xorg.conf(s) shouldn't come into play.

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    echo "blacklist nvidia" > /storage/.config/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf
    reboot

    Looks like the device ID exists in both drivers (bcma and wl) so whichever one happens to be loaded by the kernel first (roll dice) tries to claim the device. We should probably patch out the device ID to prevent that.

    ^ looks like the card is trying to use the in-kernel brcmfmac driver instead of the vendor wl driver, so perhaps blacklist it and reboot:

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    echo "blacklist brcmfmac" > /storage/.config/modprobe.d/brcmfmac.conf
    reboot

    sorted?

    It's not sure it's possible to damage the CM1 unless you've opened the case and done anti-static nastiness. There's an element of timing and sequence to the flashing process though. It's a bit fiddly.

    CM1 is fine for audio only. If it's works, no need to fix it.

    There is no need to unsquash/squash. Just create /storage/.config/xorg.conf with whatever content you require for your GPU and it will be used in preference to the any of the embedded conf files on next boot.

    AMD supports GBM (Generic Buffer Management) which facilitates the future V4L2 pipeline same as every other GPU/SoC vendor. nVidia has decided to follow their own "standard" that nobody else uses. Team Kodi are done with supporting proprietary standards due to all the extra code spaghetti and support work it entails so AMD (and basically all other current vendors except nVidia) are fine and support for nVidia in Kodi will almost certainly die off. We see it as nVidia's responsibility to start following standards, not our responsibility to rewrite everything around nVidia.

    It depends on the specific hardware. In some cases you can flash the firmware to be region free accepting any disc forevermore without extra input. In other cases the drive will still behave as if region locked; it will prompt for a region change and counts down the number of allowed region changes until zero is reached and it self-resets back to 5-6 attempts remaining (or whatever the magic number is). It's still rare to find region free drives, but these days there are numerous websites where you can acquire modified firmware and the flashing utilities needed.

    I'd create a webpage that sends JSON-RPC commands to play specific media (from the local filestore) on a specific device. Kodi has a full API for that kind of thing - it's how the Android/iOS remote apps and WebGUI(s) are implemented. You can place media in a central location and use cron + rsync to run a nightly sync job to update local media.

    The main factor is the hardware and what it's technically capable of playing. For example; Odroid C2 has an S905 chip (not S905X, S905D or other lettered variants). This means it can play 8-bit H.264 media and 8-bit or 10-bit H.265 (HEVC) media. It will not play 10-bit H.264 (it will try to software decode it, but the CPU can't cope) and it will not play 10-bit HEVC files with HDR encoding (as the original S905 doesn't support HDR). To get a more specific answer you'll need to share a Kodi debug log that shows the problem media being played. The log has information on the encoding (and other factors) and from there we can make more educated guesses on what the problems are. Sometimes it's unsupported media. Sometimes it's just badly encoded media.