Posts by chewitt

From a discussion with one of the Kodi developers this is an issue with VDPAU and the lack of RAM on the GPU - it's basically about old (out of spec) hardware being used. If you are lucky the laptop has enough CPU power to software decode things with VDPAU disabled, but I doubt that's an option with higher bitrates and larger file sized content. It's time to ask Santa to upgrade the 2007-era laptop to a more modern HTPC device.

10-bit H.264 is rarely supported for HW decode so you need something like an Intel NUC with an i7 chip which should have enough grunt to CPU decode everything.

There are quite a few differences in the scrapers used/embedded between Kodi Isengard and Kodi Krypton - it's not about distro. I've seen the same but haven't been able to dedicate any time to figuring out what combination of stuff is needed to get better scraping.

Connman is designed to be a "tethered hotspot" same as you'd have on a mobile phone. It should work fine for the use-case you described, but it creates a new routed subnet and cannot work as a bridge to the Ethernet network. If you really want/need a bridge, go buy a WiFi bridge.

There are commits for Estuary in the past couple of days to rectify the missing "Play Disc" options. I didn't play with them but sounds like it will be resolved in next release.

Currently on the US east coast, which is freezing cold and 14-hour's plane ride from the warm and sunny destination I normally live in

add-on configuration stuff is in /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/ .. and moving config is simply about moving files around the right places

Install the Hyperion add-on from the LE repo. Then download our own version of HyperCon from Hypercon - LibreELEC and go through the configuration process. Our version of HyperCon has been tweaked to handle the paths to our Hyperion add-on correctly.

In case anyone wonders why there is no 7.90.010 build for Slice yet .. I have a cmake build issue with Kodi when patching support for the LED driver, and due to me being on the wrong continent doing family stuff for Christmas I don't have lots of time to spend looking at it.

g7ruh Post sprunge.us links to debug/crash logs or there's no issue

My suggestion is to connect the CuBox via Ethernet and enable the wireless AP feature in LE settings. Now connect your phone to the AP and complete the Hotel's WiFi registration process; the Hotel should see it coming from the Ethernet MAC, and then you're done.

You're using hardware that appeared since the 7.0.2 release in June. You'll need to use the current Alpha build to have firmware/driver support.

Have a look at the OpenVPN systemd service example in /storage/.config/system.d/

We have to go through some process to "unlist" ourselves or we wait until they just happen re-scan our corner of the interwebs and decide we're safe again. It's a thinly veiled scheme which herds you towards paying for a Norton Safe WebSeal thingy to promote you're scanned and clean. I'm personally okay with Norton users being inconvenienced by this. We are not going to waste funding on a webseal, and people might Google and find this thread where I post my ex-Symantec-employee comment about their ability to detect anything useful these days as "pretty low" and Norton junkware not being worth the exorbitant annual fee that's charged. Not that they are particularly unique in this; most AV suite tools are equally naff.

Are you building something without Kodi ?

We do publish checksum data (append ?mirrorlist to any download file URL or click the 'info' links on download pages) but that data comes from the same server as the files so fails the "could be tampered with test" and files are not served over https as we use mirrorbrain to geo-distribute downloads and avoid massive bandwidth/hosting charges - the mirrors you get files from are all http-only and outside our control. Signing is in the to-do list but I apologise and confess that rightly or wrongly it's not currently a high priority item in the list. We have quite a few other hosting/back-office things that need attention first but we'll get there eventually..

Thanks for sharing the concern but it is a false positive. We use a packing tool to reduce .exe file sizes and because it is very efficient the same tool is also used by lots of bad people who write virus and trojan code. The packer leaves telltale signs in the exe and this sometimes triggers warnings in AV tools that aren't particularly clever (none of them are these days).

I'm using the default power on/off button of a random IR6/MCE remote purchased off eBay. It works because the sensor integration is done properly on the Ultra2 board that I have (both vpeter and I have the same board). That said, I never really use suspend because it does full power on/off from the remote and the box boots in 10 seconds. Suspend has no real speed advantage so why bother with the extra complications it adds.