Posts by chewitt

  • Official LE13 Test Images for Amlogic (Kodi-22)

    This thread is for discussion of AMLGX (aarch64) development images for LE13 with Kodi 22 (P). There are no real-world "Amlogic" enhancements in LE13 since previous LE11/12 images so previous disclaimers on what does and does not work still apply. Please do not post "bug reports" on hardware decoders; they are experimental and incomplete code, there are known issues with them, and you should expect to find those issues. As a general rule there is a low pace of development and you should have similarly low expectations of fixes.

    These are official nightlies: https://test.libreelec.tv/13.0/Amlogic/

    These are my own builds: https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/ <= You will receive zero support on these images. They are experimental. The version number of these never changes but the dates tell you when it was created, and that corresponds to development here: https://github.com/chewitt/LibreELEC.tv/commits/amlogic

    Enjoy :S

  • Upgrade to v12 Query

    The "direct update from LE9 is not supported" line is all about dissuading average users with low(er) skill levels because when add-ons go crashy and prevent the GUI from coming up those average users with zero CLI skills panic and generate a large amount of forum traffic. However if you understand your way around Kodi and the LE filesystem it's a fairly trivial update. The core OS updates from LE9 to anything newer with no issues since everything is packaged into KERNEL/SYSTEM. Add-ons are where all the problems occur; due to the Python2 > Python3 change that took place between LE9 and LE10 and then the multi-year version jump. However, after downloading the update .tar to /storage/.update all you need to do is stop Kodi and "rm -rf /storage/.kodi/addons/*" to ensure nothing to do with old add-ons remains except for settings in /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data, then let the update run, and reinstall add-ons from the respective repos once on LE12. Total time elapsed should be 5-10 mins at most.

  • 9.2.8 S922X to try 3D

    I'm not 100% sure whether the newer display hardware in RPi4 boards supports 3D either. I do know 100% that the original (dated) RPi4 boot firmware in the LE 9.2.8 image will not boot newer iterations of RPi4 hardware, although that's fixable if you manually update the firmware files in the root folder of the SD card to current ones.

    NB: I have no interest in the Amlogic 4.9 kernel and have no patches of any kind for it, so you're on your own with that quest. I'll give you the heads up that once you start changing Amlogic BSP kernel versions you will need to re-hack Kodi and pile of other dependencies to align with the new kernel. In short, any assumptions you are making on interchangability are most defiinitely wrong, and a world of version and dependency pain awaits you. Good luck, and please don't post here looking for guidance on that direction.

  • 9.2.8 S922X to try 3D

    RPi3B+ on LE9.2.8 is the best (and final) RPi to support 3D things. RPi switched to the GBM display pipeline from LE10 onwards and the RPi4/5 have never supported 3D matters. It remains something that could technically be added and it's the RPi devs long list of rainy-day tasks, but I have low expectations it'll ever show. NB: I believe OSMC still support it with their devices, so that could be an option too. Best to check first by asking in their forum though.

  • Raspberry5: SSD instead of microSD “It’s time to ditch microSD”

    I'm fine without a pile of stats being posted. Everyone has slightly different use-cases and test results are thus not universal truths to be followed. And in forums such discussions always end up with someone trying to prove something is/isn't better/worse/faster/slower than something else. I choose ignorance and less forum drama. If people want to run an RPi5 on an NVME drive .. go nuts. If people are happy running on an SD card .. go nuts. Go forth and watch movies.

  • shell script to cd into the /storage/.kodi directory

    The error is self-explanatory ^ the /opt directory does not exist in LibreELEC and you cannot add it, so you need to modify the script to use some location on the persistent /storage area.

  • RPi5 lip sync issue

    Code
    mount -o remount,rw /flash
nano /flash/config.txt

    I have no issues with 1080p H264 and sync on an RPi5 (self-built nightlies) so I would make a random guess that you aren't using adjust-refresh and no mode whitelist is defined.