Posts by chewitt

    ^ The above is based on the composite output config I used to ship in AppleTV builds. You will need to change the TVStandard option to match your TV and store the file as /storage/.config/xorg.conf and "systemctl restart xorg" to effect the change.

    Kodi Krypton uses a completely different video caching process to older Jarvis releases. The positive of this is that untold playback gremlins are resolved and the codebase is considerably cleaner. The negative is that caching takes a lot longer and this impacts the channel zap speed. There is basically nothing you (or we) can do without reverting/modifying very large chunks of code; which probably breaks more than it fixes. The issue has been communicated at loud volume and with crystal clarity to the required Kodi developers and Kodi Leia should make a great leap forwards (or backwards, depending on your point of view) for this issue. Leia is tentatively scheduled towards year end.

    autostart.sh is run at the start of userspace boot and the script will execute fully before boot continues; i.e. if you don't want to block boot you will need to (background)& tasks in the script. NB: If you background things there is no guarantee your tasks have finished before Kodi starts. It provides lots of possibilities for fixing and breaking things :)

    The calibrate system in Kodi is a bit dumb because it only calibrates the current refresh rate, e.g. the Kodi GUI default at 60Hz. If you have "adjust refresh rate" enabled and play a DVD at 23.98 (23.976) Hz this will not be calibrated. If you play PAL content at 25Hz (doubled to 50Hz) it will not be calibrated. You need to manually step through each supported refresh rate (or the rates your media will need) and calibrate them all. The fact that you will make the same adjustment in all refresh rates is the dumb part, but at least you only need to do it once..

    I don't think this is possible. Library views track watched/unwatched status, but I don't think there is DB tracking of when something was watched, and because Videos views are not Library views there is no persistence of watched/unwatched status. It will show within the current GUI session but reboot and everything will show as unwatched again.

    Kodi does have some default fanart (a wordcloud of text in bronze colour on a black background) but if that's not being show it's picking up the art from somewhere else. In my own workflow for music I have a separate music source folder for problem scrapes. This allows me to move a single album that i've ripped from disc and scrape the source and a) not have it take aeons to scrape/update my large library, b) the log files only show a few items and not thousands, so they're human readable. It also makes it easier to target a single Album with picard to ensure the meta tags are set/saved properly.. because that's ultimately where the mismatch is probably occurring (or some stray .nfo files are in the filesystem).

    At one point we were looking to absorb the capabilities of the OE era config add-on, but since RPi3 came along with enough CPU to decode MPEG2 in software without the license, the need for it among our userbase greatly reduced. There is also a strong correlation between providing a tool that encourages people to overclock their device and the number of people reporting random issues caused by overclocking.