Posts by chewitt

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.

Create an Ubuntu LiveUSB so you can boot the NUC and access the second partition on the internal SSD to find .kodi/temp/kodi.old.log and share it via pastebin so we can see why Kodi is crashing.

What version of OE did you update to LE 8.0.2 from?

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?

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.

Nothing looks wrong.. but clearly something is. What distro did you compile on?

PR the changes to the main repo.

Make sure "sync playback to display" it not selected, as this forces output to PCM.

HOW TO:Provide Logfile - LibreELEC

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.

Quote from tuep

Will it run better on something like an odroid c2 than an RPi3?

probably

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.

Quote from Klojum

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

pastebin a Kodi debug log demonstrating the problem please

I would avoid the Core box; not because there is anything particularly wrong with it, but because it's stuck on the same 3.10 kernel as your current Play1 device which makes it increasingly unattractive for long-term support.

Kodi settings > services > smb client > set max client protocol version to SMB2 .. it will prompt to reboot. This should prevent Kodi attempting (and it looks like failing) to autonegotiate SMB2 connections. Or update the software on the NAS and enable SMB3.

Click on downloads – LibreELEC and download the USB/SD creator app that's linked at the top of the page. Use that to create an RPi2 SD card and then boot from it.

LibreELEC USB-SD Creator - LibreELEC

I usually see this PEBKAC error when people visit GitHub and download things using the "save as zip" function; which gives them a zipped copy of the GitHub repo which is not the same thing as the zipped add-on they were hoping for.

For further help you will need to specify the add-ons and state where you obtain the files from.