Posts by Gregoir3

I'd like to add that from Coreelec 8.90.1 onwards "longpress" is supported but you have to switch from remote.xml to keyboard.xml for it to work.

Quote from TheChief

Normally no user/pass needed.

Yes, but that was way way back for me it seems.

Quote from bubblegum57

do you mean ssh?

No, over the network. Windows key+r then \\coreelec\. Worked before with libreelec and also after upgrading. Stopped working with the *official* CoreElec.

Can't acces using smb. Both possible passwords (libreelec, coreelec) don't work.

Coreelec 8.90.0 works really well for me. Thought I'd let everybody know.

A version of Contentful's logo is something I think would be nice for CoreElec. IMO.

Quote from adamg

What is CoreELEC?

CoreELEC is a minor fork of LibreELEC, it's built by the community for the community!

What is the difference between CE/LE?

CoreELEC will be driven by the community, it's direction chosen by the community, there will be more collaboration between developers and end users, more features and more bug fixes.

What devices will CE support?

For now the focus will be on only Amlogic based devices, there are very few developers working on this platform anymore and one of our goals with CE is to bring all Amlogic contributors together and work more closely with each other to keep LE/CE/Kodi alive on this great platform and raise it's awareness and popularity.

Why fork?

Many reasons, some technical, some political, some personal.

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Technical: some of the changes I and others have made in CE are incompatible with the currrent standards set within LE, for example... CE relies on a lot of patches to fix a lot of issues and one of the goals in LE is to reduce reliance on patches and to upstream fixes where possible however this in itself presents a number of additional issues.

Sending pull requests to fix current issues within LE has also been an issue in that there are very few people reviewing code and/or merging it, fixes can lay in wait for weeks or months which is counter productive to the long term goals of LE to provide stable releases.

Political: chewitt has touched on some of the current issues in his recent blog post regarding elections however needless to say the current atmosphere is somewhat hostile within LE and has made some of us just want to distance ourselves from all of the fighting and focus on what we really care about.

Personal: I can't speak for other developers as we all have our own individual problems and concerns with LE, my biggest concern however is the total lack of support received from more senior members, I have never received any help with hosting when I have asked, I have paid out of my own pocket to provide community releases whilst LE has collected donations to pay for it, my messages and requests have been read and ignored on many occassions and attitudes of senior members specifically towards the community and in particular the less technically minded users who I have seen belittled and almost ridiculed in posts when people are just asking for help and support is just wrong and not something I wish to put my name to.

The notion that LE is a dictatorship is not a view I hold as I don't really care much for the internal politics and I never have, I couldn't really care who makes the decisions as I have always maintained my own personal fork, I care more for the the community and fought on behalf of the community just to get S905/S912 added to LE when there was so much resistance to it, for me the fight is gone though, it went when I left the LE slack workspace a number of weeks ago, I find it too much effort when the same issues appear time and time again, I didn't part ways badly I just left without saying anything or making a scene so having the finger pointed at me for the problems that exist is just ludacrist.

Bug Reporting
One thing I see on these forums time and time again is bug reports regarding LibreELEC on AML which I do not feel is right as there is no LibreELEC on AML, not yet at least anyway, all that exists is community releases... I hope that with the name change bug reports can be differentiated in a manner that better reflects where they really exist.

All future bug reports should be posted here.

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README.md still says LibreElec. Is this as it should be?

Quote from Tim_Taylor

Use the tar command to create the archive, copy the archive to destination and extract

I tried this. Nothing is big enough to hold the tar so it just doesn't do it.

To adamg. Will these builds be a departure from the standard Libreelec images?

LOL last development version turned my screen green !

I've found this very handy because now I can do a clean SD card install and still have my addons. I have two s905x boxes and want to transfer the data that's on the internal memory of the first one to the other one. How can I achieve this?

Quote from Raybuntu

Why incompatible? The future is mainline but that's still 1 or 2 years away from running okay'ish. Kszaq has put in a lot of effort into fixing his Kernel. LE Kernel has some issues and it will take a lot time to fix it probably. Either way will work it just depends how much time it will consume. 3.14 is limited anyway.

Okay, let's see what happens then.

I also vote against going back to an incompatible (for the future) kernel.

Quote from afl1

I relaxed continuity check to avoid wrongly detected stream out of sync.

LibreELEC-S912.arm-9.0-devel-1522315907.tar

Try to test my devel version. I ported from kszaq kernel some tweaks to optimized video decoding.

For S905 boxes you can use:

LibreELEC-S905.arm-9.0-devel-1522243038.tar

Are these a continuation of the development of adamg?

When I enable HW decoding for h264 I experience frame drops (lots of them). Not so much with SW decoding or I haven't noticed.

Quote from Pelican

It's easy. If you lost with an alpha then go back to stable (8.2).

Thanks for your advice but I fixed it. Please post if you have any advice useful for me in the future.

Okay, so. Netflix didn't work properly with 8.90.6 and I couldn't update to inpustream.adaptive 2.1.15. So I tried the newest one. Now it doesn't work at all.

I'm actually at a loss at what to do next.

Quote from ChimeyJimmey

If someone needs the NEW libwidevine ARM libraries, which work with Amazon VOD and Netflix:

lib-ARM-widevine.zip

Tested on 8.90.3 (S905X) with the additional explicit setting in Sandmann's Amazon VOD to store credentials instead of using cookie.

File not found.