Posts by chewitt

Quote from Nico

Will it work on old imac?

I suspect the macOS version will be too old, but there's no harm in trying. If it doesn't work you can unzip the .img.gz file and use 'dd' from Terminal.app to write the image to an USB/SD device.

If the file doesn't exist, create it with the "nano" text editor over SSH.

I'm effectively doing the same/similar. An RPi5 (2GB or more) is a reliable and well supported board.

The perenial challenge with DVB cards is drivers; LE uses latest/recent kernels and the support for DVB cards often relies upon older kernels or custom patches. If you can afford to spend a little, a Digitbit Twin network Sat>IP device is the default recommendation of staff and many users around here. The extra up-front cost is paid back in long-term low/zero maintenance effort. USB tuners will be cheaper, but expect more maintenance effort.

NB: Configuring the YouTube add-on in Kodi is painful due to the need for personal Google API keys (as it's not an official Google add-on with them embedded) but that's a one-time setup chore and completly invisible to parents/wives/kids once done.

The original post/user created an 'arm' docker image, so that's not going to run on x86_64 hardware. There are probably hundreds of alternative Docker images (for x86_64) available if you look on Docker Hub .. not that you need to use Docker because we already embed the OpenVPN binary in the OS and the only difference between client and server use is configuration. Create a server config and start it at boot and we have a server. Create a client config and start it at boot and we're a client. Create both client and server configs if you like .. all is possible.

The AMLGX "box" image. There's no specific device tree for M8S Pro+ but it's an S905X device so experiment with the p212 device and/or other meson-gxl-s905x-* dtb files. Also read this: https://wiki.libreelec.tv/hardware/amlogic

The text in the WB image looks like torrent streaming and the log confirms you have banned add-ons installed. Good luck with your issue - there's no support for pirates in this forum.

Official:Forum rules/Banned add-ons - Official Kodi Wiki

mglae in case it's useful .. this is from past experiments:

ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs: partial package restore to include ntfsprogs tools · chewitt/LibreELEC.tv@ad39895

Signed-off-by: Christian Hewitt <[email protected]>

github.com

mglae we looked at ntfsfix before but concluded it wasn't the right approach. I don't recall an option to clear only the dirty-flag last time I looked at the tool though, so not sure if that's a recent addition or I just missed it.

From an LE/OpenVPN perspective there's no difference between x86_64 and arm/aarch64 images.

How are you connecting to the share?

Does it fail/error immediately or after 30+ seconds?

2024-10-24 19:43:34.317 T:1734    debug <general>: [WHITELIST] whitelisted modes:
                                                   4096x2160 @ 60.000000 Hz
                                                   4096x2160 @ 24.000000 Hz
                                                   4096x2160 @ 23.976025 Hz
                                                   3840x2160 @ 60.000000 Hz
                                                   3840x2160 @ 24.000000 Hz
                                                   3840x2160 @ 23.976025 Hz
                                                   1920x1080 @ 60.000000 Hz
                                                   1920x1080 @ 24.000000 Hz
                                                   1920x1080 @ 23.976025 Hz

^ Just don't expect 25fps material to play correctly with those defined. I suggest you go read the config recommendations.

2024-10-24 19:41:31.786 T:1871     info <general>: ffmpeg[0x20ca0230]:   Stream #0:0[0x1](und): Video: hevc (Main) (hev1 / 0x31766568), yuv420p(tv), 3840x2160 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 7392 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn (default)
...
2024-10-24 19:41:31.786 T:1871    debug <general>: [WHITELIST] Matched an exact resolution with double the refresh rate 4096x2160 @ 50.000000 Hz (20)

You are forcing 3840x2160 to be scaled to 4096x2160 which is a CPU intensive task that will suck on most hardware. Please follow the config. recommendations in https://wiki.libreelec.tv/configuration/4k-hdr and with a full whitelist configured to omit the 4096 resolutions and with normal handling for 4K@25Hz, it'll probably work.

Kodi 21 has optimisations to GUI rendering that make things more efficient. Kodi 22 will have more again.The developer doing the work deliberately uses an Odroid C2 board as the baseline OpenGLES 2.0 device; not because it's Amlogic, but because it's a good example of an older device with limited capabilities.

Quote from OatmealMan

How exactly do add the file?

Enable SSH and login to the device over the network and use "nano" to create/edit text configuration files. You cannot read the EXT4 filesystem used for /storage on a Windows machine.

video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080M@60

Try adding that ^ to boot params in cmdline.txt

Your device is ARMv8, but LE11 uses 64-bit kernel + 32-bit (arm) userspace while LE12 switched to 64-bit kernel + 64-bit (aarch64) userspace. Python3 add-ons like Netflix/Disney/Max are not affected, but most of these depend upon inputstream.adaptive which is a compiled binary add-on. This will need to updated to an aarch64 compatible version before it will work. The updates to binary add-ons should happen automatically once you've booted into LE12, but if not you can manually force-refresh the repo, or worst case uninstall them (keeping preferences) then clear /storage/.kodi/addons/packages, and reinstall them from the LE add-on repo.

popcornmix is there any way to force 1080p composite output using kernel DRM?