Posts by chewitt
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For kicks (and if you don't mind) .. make a backup and move off-box; then clean install to the eMMC again and selectively restore the essential bits (sources.xml etc.) from the backup file. If that works we can take another willing victim and see what bits of their Kodi install can be pruned before things start to work right. I have a completely unfounded hunch/suspicion that Kodi image caching is involved.
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So just to be clear the tar can not be copied to the update directory on the slice cm3?
If you are updating from LE 8.0.x (the first images to support CM3) to LE 8.1.0 manual update can be done from LE settings in the Kodi GUI. You can also copy the update .tar or install .img.gz file to /storage/.update/ and it will work (.tar is faster).
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I've installed 8.1.0 all seems to be good except LED patterns, some work, others like fast rewind and the shutting down red pattern do not, all of the .png patterns seem to be present in /usr/share/kodi/addons/service.slice/resources/media/ledpatterns/ although I thought they used to be in /usr/share/kodi/media/ledpatterns ?
The location of LED patterns has changed because they are now part of the embedded slice.service add-on. I saw some LED issues when I first updated to early versions of the 8.1.0 image where patterns weren't playing right, but I strongly suspect that was due to an install that had became messed-up from testing and with too much background stuff going on (and using WIFI, which seems to make the Slice box suck). Since I clean reinstalled to the eMMC for boot testing and went back to Ethernet, it's been fine.
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Amlogic devices with an S905 chipset like the NEO U1 should have great 8-bit/10-bit HEVC playback. If something is failing to play there is either a conflict with Kodi configuration or something bad/broken/non-standard with the media file. First action would be to share a Kodi debug logfile and an explanation of what LE community image you are using (because there is nothing official for Minix boxes). Second action would be sharing 2-3 mins of the media file so we can experiment with other S905 devices and see what happens.
RPi2 might cope with lower-bitrate 8-bit 720p HEVC files, but I doubt 10-bit 1080p will play even if low-bitrate. Everything has limits.
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What version of OE did you update to LE 8.0.2 from?
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It's the same distro that I build official images on. Possibly a little ahead on patches but I've never paid any attention to patch levels (beyond updating when it prompts) so it's not something that should influence the outcome. Most "fail to boot" issues are about the boot media not boot content. Is the good 8.0.2 boot on the same USB stick?
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One of the OE contributors had a religious thing about suspend not working on USB sticks so OE wiki entries say this is bad (sky will fall on your head etc.) but ISTR we removed the "big fat warning!!!" texts as for most (not all, but most) users it works okay. That said. I always preach that any installation on USB or SD media is temporary as it will be more prone to wear related media dying issues, so it's the users responsibility to create appropriate periodic backups to guard against data loss.
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PR the changes to the main repo.
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Make sure "sync playback to display" it not selected, as this forces output to PCM.
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Krypton promotes favourites from home screen icon to proper menu item, but the functionality is not as complete as other menu items (half baked is not a fair comment, but it needs some improvement in Kodi Leia). If you are on the home screen, scroll down to favourites and then scroll right, there is no option to context click the favourites. If you highlight favourites on the menu and then click to enter the favourites screen; now you can context click to delete and reorder the favourites.
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Will it run better on something like an odroid c2 than an RPi3?
probably

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If the problem is only seen with Bello Skin, it's either a bug in the skin or the skin is uncovering a bug in Kodi.
First thing to do is test with LE 8.1.0 and a Milhouse v18 build to see if the issue is already resolved. If nothing is fixed, I'd start with posting the issue to the Bello skin support thread in Kodi forums. The skin author is welcome to contact us for debug assistance if they want.
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Quasar is a banned Kodi add-on. No support will be given when using such add-ons.
^ repeating in case the previous post wasn't clear
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pastebin a Kodi debug log demonstrating the problem please