LE uses NTFS-3G which runs via FUSE (userspace) whereas EXT2/3/4 use an in-kernel driver. Differences are determined by raw CPU speed and I/O performance of the hardware/disk. On the same drive connected to the same hardware and same interfaces running the same kernel there is *no way* NTFS will outperform EXT because the data flows in/out of userspace to the device are significantly less efficient.
Posts by chewitt
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sunxi-ir?
LE has never released images for Allwinner devices (not yet) so whatever code you are running on, it did not originate from us, and we have no idea what it contains, what version of LE it claims to be, or how accurately the unknown author of that image has followed the changes we have made over the last 6-9 months on IR things
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On what hardware? .. and specifically, which wireless chipset?
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The OE version has a minor board revision and the non-OE version ships with Android installed. Apart from that WeTek "OpenELEC" and WeTek Play (1) are exactly the same. The LibreELEC settings add-on should be visible under Add-ons > Program Add-ons on all skins. The shortcut to it in Kodi settings only exists in Estuary.
Download the .tar image to storage, then validate the md5 checksum against Mirror List to make sure the image isn't at fault. If it still fails, maybe the internal storage has some issues?
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LE uses fluxbox as a basic Xorg windowmanager (further in the past we used ratpoison) on x86 hardware. Other hardware currently runs on the kernel framebuffer (no Xorg) and with the next evolution of LE (and Kodi) graphics architecture everything uses DRM/KMS (GBM) and a zero-copy rendering/decoding pipeline based on the kernel V4L2 stack.
The build-system was borrowed from geexbox but the design principles behind the OS are from Welcome to Linux From Scratch!
It's simple to build the OS without Kodi; set mediacentre to 'none' (or something else that matches a package name) in distro options. There are people using it for weather stations on a Pi in addition to multiple other flavours of media app. You need to poke/understand how the build-system works to get anywhere with adapting it for other needs. If you succeed please keep in touch and consider submitting enhancements back to our main repo that allow easier adaption for other uses, because it's great to see our codebase forked and repurposed in this way.
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I'll have to go look at wpa_supplicant
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NTP is handled by connman
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Netflix is working in Kodi Leia (pre-Alpha) builds. It will not run on Kodi Krypton. The add-on is available from the Kodinerds repo. Last time I checked (a couple of months back) the add-on was due an update to automatically installed the required widevine.so library, but that might have happened since. No idea about Hulu as I'm on the wrong continent for that service.
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Check for free space on the internal storage. You will need approx 2.5x the size of the 8.2.2 image free (about 327MB) for update to succeed. If you are low on space it's possible to download the .tar update file and uncompress on another machine, copy to USB, then copy kernel.img and SYSTEM over from the USB to the /storage/.update folder. This negates some steps in the update process. You can also free space by running "systemctl stop kodi" and then "rm -rf /storage/.kodi/temp" then "systemctl start kodi" .. anything in the temp folder can be binned safely. Another location to prune is the cache of installed add-on packages in /storage/.kodi/addons/packages/
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You can play around with profile to limit options.
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Add the DNS record to Win10's hosts file, then it will always resolve.
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I'd ask that the LE repo is removed and forked properly before the branch is then re-added. This allows cross-fork comparison so changes made can be easily seen and understood. The way it's currently been done, comparison is awkward.
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How is this relevant to LibreELEC ?
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No discussion or recommendation of Acestream in these forums. It's sole purpose is piracy.
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Kodi is started (and managed) by systemd. What exactly are you trying to achieve?
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Change Kodi to use MMAL not OMXplayer?
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I think that Libreelec is mostly used by people who reuse old hardware. If delelopers think otherwise - then this project is already DEAD (or in active process of decaying)... IMHO...
I base my knowledge of our userbase on facts (we track this kind of thing) not humble opinions. The facts are (and have been since our inception) that we focus on dedicated HTPC devices; we do not intentionally support old hardware and laptops. If old junk works, that's great. If it doesn't, our standard response to any user is "head on over to Ubuntu, they support old stuff better than we do" and there are no plans to change that.
