Posts by chewitt

It's deliberately absent because the outrageous amount of repetitive and thankless support work it generates is/was (in our opinion) a bigger problem than the increasingly negligible speed difference between most eMMC storage and a decent SD card.

Running LE from eMMC storage isn't a bad idea, but the current implementation and user experience with that script *is* a bad idea. At some point it will be tackled in a way that makes sense over Allwinner, Amlogic, Rockchip, etc. .. but some features need to land in uboot before we make any serious efforts on that, it's a little too early.

Some community images and skins have those "reboot to internal" commands hacked in. No official images have them.

Your log doesn't show any attempts to access an SMB share. The Kodi SMB client can use SMB2/3 (default config) to connect with a Win10 share as long as the source has valid Win10 credentials (no unauthenticated guest access).

The remote app will work, but S912 devices are the least future-proof of all current Amlogic hardware.

"lost in translation"

So far nobody I asked has documentation for this chip.

я слушаю "Песня о звездах" здес, новые верси работает (Kodi v18, over SMB from Synology NAS)

Have you tested the current Alpha or Milhouse releases? .. just realised you're on 8.2.5

AFAIK the business was mothballed and eventually the assets (the intellectual property) of FiveNinja's were sold so nobody really has interest in running a defunct forum these days. If you have questions post them in the subsection here and someone will probably answer.

S905D and S905X are the same chip except for S905D supporting an external PHY (so boxes can have GB ethernet, not that all do) and the interface for internal tuner devices. The difference between SDIO and USB tuners will be negligible. More significant, especially for how weak signals are handled, will be the drivers. I cannot provide a validated answer (and i'm not sure there is one) but as a rule the not-in-kernel drivers for SDIO chipsets used in Android boxes are worse than the more widely used mostly-in-kernel USB drivers.

I wouldn't spend money on a cross-grade at this point. If you want to do an upgrade, it's time for a NUC and/or a network SAT>IP device with multiple tuners (so pre-selection is possible) and no impact on the local system.

Raspberry Pi is our largest user group (consistently around 75% of our active installed base) which means more people to report (and often fix) issues, and the Pi Foundation has long been attentive to the needs of Kodi - because great support helps to sell more boards to support their education mission. That said, the experience for 1080p/H.264 should be pretty consistent everywhere assuming the same media being played back on the same TV screen over the same USB drive or NAS/network. It's only once you stray towards exotic encodings, 4k, HDR, wonky TV's and bad network connections that you'll start to discover differences between platforms.

I've been told that udev is setting a property that marks it as removable and Kodi displays icons based on that propery, but I'll need to dig further to figure out what/where and whether it can be changed. This is really a cosmetic level issue; the drive is correctly mounted and 100% usable, there is nothing 'broken' in that sense.

No idea about the dual-audio patch. Last time I saw that code (a couple of years ago) it was a fcuking horrible hack. If it works, it works. If it doesn't work .. not our problem to solve. Also hard to mind-read what you've done, so best to just build and see what happens.

In that specific case "git cherry-pick 2af9c405521db9d57fac6e9aba07f1525d7b3b27" and you'll apply that commit to your current working branch.

In that case it's a Kodi issue, and you're still in the wrong forum for reporting core Kodi issues

If you have 100 files in a scraped source and then add a new source with 100 more files, and use the Videos (non-library file browser) view to move around and play things; only the 100 files that have previously been scraped will support resume. Unless you scrape a media file to the library there is no corresponding DB entry for file state to be saved against. If you browse media via the Movies/TVShows library views you will always get resume points because (by definition) everything's in the DB.

^ not an authoritative statement, but an educated hunch on what's happening.

You can't, because LE has no 'desktop' environment. Enable SSH and use an SFTP client (e.g. WinSFTP).

No idea then. It's probably better to ask the question in Kodi forums where developers more familiar with the innards of Kodi are.