Posts by chewitt

Quote from handy7000

Is there any way I can add a kernel module or something similar to a newer version of Libreelec that will help me get back VC1 decoding? If not is there anything else I can do beyond re-encoding my VC1 titles or buying a newer device? Neither of these options are too appealing to me?

The upstream Linux kernel used in LE10+ images does not support VC1, the driver has simply never been written. It does exist in the older vendor kernel used in LE 9.2 and older images, but as you found, these days these have issues with TLS certificates (can be solved with a custom image) and general add-on compatibility. There's about 0.01% code in-common between the upstream and vendor kernels and Kodi removed support for amcodec (and all the other proprietary codec methods) a long time ago now so the options are rather limited. AMLGX is self-admittedly a bit of a compromise and not as feature complete as older images. There has not been much development on the codecs for a few years and they are what they are. I would recommend re-encoding to H264 as the decoder for this is in quite good shape and more family-friendly. You can also re-encode to HEVC, but this driver was never fully completed and it has glitches, e.g. seeking is not brilliant. Anything more needs new hardware.

I merged the PR to master. It will hopefully end up in LE 12.0.2 as well.

See https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/pull/9587

You can replicate this locally by creating /storage/.config/udev.rules.d/98-eventlircd.rules with the same content as the PR.

I'm interested in testing/feedback a) to get this merged for LE13, b) potentially to backport for LE12.2.

The patch was merged in Kodi master branch (Piers) but hasn't been backported, so it won't be in the Kodi 21.2 release which I'm expecting to be tagged tonight with an LE 12.2 release to follow-on sometime in the next week.

LE13 nightlies are here: https://test.libreelec.tv/13.0/ (scroll down for latest files). I won't ever promise a nightly is stable, but at this point it's an accurate term. I've personally been running them for a long time.

Quote from QBJack

Could you please help here with specific commands?

https://wiki.libreelec.tv/configuration/wireguard#known-issues

Pirates aren't welcome in this forum.

It's a long-running issue that impacts a small number of users. It is not RPi hardware specific. Things that may help:

• Disabling fast-transition (FT) in access-point radio properties
• Not using WPA3
• Moving the device closer to the access-point to improve signal strength

It is probably an issue with iwd (as reverting to wpa_supplicant works around it) but it remains unresolved largely because nobody who can replicate the issue has code-level fault finding skills, and nobody among project staff or regular technical contributors with such skills can replicate the problem.

rtl8723bs: Invalid-key while connecting to wifi on LE12 · Issue #8731 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv

This is a continuation of issue #7166 but for LE12. When running LibreELEC-H6.aarch64-12.0-nightly-20240312-d108ae1-pine-h64-model-b.img: I get invalid-key…

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This is resolved now.

Quote from drjackel

will there be a Kodi 21.2 built with the newer kernels and a Inter ARC bug fixes ?

No, LE12 uses Liinux 6.6 for most hardware. There are LE13 nightlies with newer kernels and newer Kodi too; and while I won't ever promise a pre-release version to ne 'stable' it's an accurate description right now.

In the "PC" world vendors expect users to use a monitor and control the screen with a mouse/keyboard, so nobody adds the CEC chip as it's extra cost. In the "ARM" (SoC) world everyone expects the box/board to be connected to a TV so 95% of devices include CEC functionality. In short ..

Quote from RenEH

Any chance we can get this feature implemented/merged?

If it gets merged into upstream Kodi we will have the feature. That won't happen though, because it's a hack, albeit a clever one.

Yup, so take the 4-8GB backup tar file, clean install the new device, restore the 4-8GB backup from the tar file. You'll be done 12-18 hours faster than block cloning a 128GB SD card. Users constantly obsess about cloning, but you don't need an identical card, you only need one with the same data on it, and that's the easiest/fastest route to that objective.

NB: As you discovered, most cards do not have exactly 100% the same 'disk' geometry which complicates block cloning.

Use connmanctl to review and perhaps change the interface sequence order to modify routing.

While 98% of the boxes out there have the same Broadcom RTL8211F chip inside, there are occasionally other chips used, and they can be using a different bus slot which requires a different device-tree and/or maybe an additional driver in the image. As a start, share the system log (assuming you can access SSH over WiFi).

The wiki is open to public contributions.

The solution is to back the contents of the card and not clone (at block level) the entire card. This will also be massively quicker as you're usually backing up no more than 4-8GB of Kodi data, unless there are media files on the card, rather than the entire 128GB card. Learn to use tar.

I've pushed an updated set of images to my test share with:

• Linux 6.12.9
• u-boot 2025.01
• Tanix TX9-pro device-tree (not new, authored a couple of years ago)
• Fix for UHD 4K @ 59.94 which is useful for YouTube VP9 media

I'm interested in any reports of HDMI sync loss when playing media (along with mediainfo details) as the fix for YUV420 @ 59.94 fiddles with HDMI clock plumbing.

I'm also interested to hear if WeTek Hub boards are booting fine now? - some folks had an issue we suspected of being noise on the UART that caused it to see a keypress and enter the u-boot console instead of booting. Feedback would be nice.

WireGuard requires the host (server) to be an IP address and ConnMan does not implement logic to resolve an FQDN to an IP before configuring the WireGuard interface and bringing it up, or perform periodic validation of an FQDN to detect IP changes.

It's not an impossible problem to resolve [sic]. Create a script that resolves the FQDN against a trusted upstream DNS server (not a local one which caches results) and compares the IP to the current WireGuard conf IP, and if different, sed the value in the conf and then restart the WireGuard service to recreate the connection with new values. Use cron or a systemd timer (which is cron) to run the script at periodic intervals.