Posts by chewitt

Quote from adamg

So I hope you can see just part of the reason why I have removed this, you may think it is a bad or a poor decision on my part but I couldn't care less because I am fed up of the constant trouble it causes.

GDPR-2 I'm pleased to see this direction as the wider team recognised it as a long-term support burden some time ago. One of our goals has always been "ease of use" and box installs are inherently more challenging than SBC devices due to multiple "how to make it boot an SD card" methods required - and adding the frequent complexities of internal installation on-top results in a range of box unique issues that tiring to repeatedly solve. It's true that an eMMC install is always going to be fastest, but team testing shows the performance of a good SD card reduces the gain to marginal levels unless the underlying box has inferior components (and crap hardware is always going to be crap hardware). An easier install process results in more people having a positive experience with LE, and thats something we care about more than appeasing the overall small (but increasing) percentage of users who purchase sub-$25 black box junk from far-east bulk buy websites. Caveat Emptor..

I haven't looked deeply into HiSilicon requirements, but for anything vaguely official to go into LE's github repo (even as an experimental branch) the technical direction needs to be mainline kernel/uboot with DRM/GBM for rendering and a V4L2 (integrated with ffmpeg) driver to create a zero-copy (mem2mem) graphics pipeline. We have learned from our experiences of Amlogic and Rockchip. As long as those criteria are followed and/or there is a clear plan/vision on how to get there .. we're all ears.

GitHub - chewitt/LibreELEC.tv at leiot-8.0

^ out of date and possibly not complete, but might give some hints

GitHub - plexinc/LibreELEC.tv at libreelec-8.2.2-plex

^ swaps Kodi for Plex

Piracy add-on websites profit from affiliate revenue on VPN sales from people who use their endless stream of bullsh1t guides and howto links, so nearly all of them contain some form of warning/advise text that recommends using a VPN.

I'm not a major wireless expert, but the essence of the problem is that if the 5GHz connection persistently shows the better connection it will be used. If it does not, and it persistently falls back to 2.4GHz, the solution is to fix radio coverage so 5GHz is superior, not forcing the driver to hold onto the inferior connection.

TVA and KodiTips are piracy promoting scum. People who @link their accounts with ours are often found in our block list.

and your twitter handle is?

The "wetekdvb" module contains code that detects specific properties unique to WeTek hardware, and if not detected, the driver will not run.

DVB drivers on Amlogic are a mucking fess. YMMV.

Check the port. My Synology has mariaDB on 3307 not 3306.

Provide a Kodi debug log. If it objects to something there will be a log entry.

Quote from sufr3ak

Everything WORKS fine.

^ in this case there is no problem. Watch movies not logfiles.

C2 is an S905/GXBB device which means no HDR.

Quote from muya

Any idea what it could be?

experimental unreleased software?

The question is whether Kodi needs support to be compiled in or it can be bolted on afterwards?

Install LE to the HDD, boot Ubuntu from CD, use Ubuntu to install rEFInd to LE disk.

The transition between items in a playlist depends on the processing speed of the device, speed of internet connection, how inputstream.adaptive has been configured, and (often) the increased Kodi cache settings the user applied in the wrong belief it would improve playback.

At the current time there are no drivers and no NXP branch image, but one of our devs is on their list of people to send a sample to so if you're lucky things might change before it arrives.

TimeCapsule can be used with current/latest LE but it uses Apple's own (not Samba) SMB server which doesn't play nice with Kodi/smbclient. The workaround is to locally mount the remote SMB shares via systemd. See SMB with Libreelec 8.2 and TimeCapsule not working for an example systemd mount file.