Posts by ukmark62

  • [8.2.4.1] LibreELEC Kodi Krypton - S905 & S912 devices

    Quote from Shoog

    Updates are performed by placing the .tar file in the .update folder. The img.gz files are for burning fresh SD/USB installs.

    Shoog

    I've always used img.gz to update since LE 7. I use the img.gz as it can do both fresh install & update, whereas .tar can only do updates afaik. That way I only need to download one file.

    EDIT: Looks like this small glitch has been resolved. There's a new test2 image available now, with a slightly different name, and that image allows updating LE via dropping the img.gz file into the .update folder and rebooting.

    Thanks wrxtasy!

  • [8.2.4.1] LibreELEC Kodi Krypton - S905 & S912 devices

    I have been testing the S905/S905x devel build and must say I'm very impressed.

    Ever since the early days of 8.x kszaq builds, I always had slight, infrequent, but sometimes noticeable stutter on 720p/25p content only. I always used the settings of turning "adjust refresh rate" off and "sync playback to display" on. I'm in the UK, and all our TV series are 25p. I find with this setting I have very smooth playback of 23.976p, 24p and 25p content. I'm quite happy with stereo sound (don't care about passthru audio) from the TV so this setup works really well. Don't have AVR system etc.

    Anyway, so far I have not seen any stutter at all (this is not subtitle stutter, but general video stutter I'm referring to). I've tried a few episodes of 25p UK TV and some 23.976p US TV and movies. So far, the picture is very smooth.

    I have noticed that memory consumption is higher compared to kszaq's builds. It appears that video/audio is cached a lot more and I'm guessing this causes the memory usage to increase (so far to a max of 32% - I have 2GB ram box). It's not a problem, just an observation - maybe this helps with playback smoothness??

    Once again, congrats on a super smooth build!!

  • Compile error (trying to backport wifi driver to kszaq's LE version 8.0.1k from 8.2)

    Reason for backporting wifi driver is that I have a lot of 720p/25p content and version 8.0.1k of LE is the only version (including all of kszaq's subsequent versions and latest CoreELEC version) that plays back the 720p/25p content perfectly. All other versions exhibit random, infrequent, small, but noticeable stutter. This only happens on my 25p content. All 23.976p and 24p content plays back perfectly (with all versions of LE). All content is locally stored on 2TB external HDD and is attached to LE box via USB cable. The LE box is directly attached to the TV via HDMI - there are no other attachments.

    I've created a github branch which is cloned from Kszaq's 8.0.1k release and modified it to include the source for the SSV6XXX-AML wifi driver. The compile fails. I'm hoping somebody out there has an idea of what I'm doing wrong. I'm new to github, ubuntu and linux etc, but I think the branch is correct (there are only a few mods from the original 8.0.1k release). I'm hoping there's a setting/config file somewhere that I've missed...... it's trying to compile the driver but can't find the "aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc" command. Is it something to do with cross-compiling?? I thought it would use "gcc" to compile the wifi driver??.... If I install "gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu" package, it will then compile but the wifi driver does not work.

    I know that I can revert back to kszaq's original 8.0.1k image and use a USB wifi adapter. If I get no responses, that's what I'll do, but I'd love to know how to fix this wifi driver compile error.

    I'm using Oracle VM with Ubuntu 16.04 and make command was:- PROJECT=S905 ARCH=arm make image

    TIA (Please see below)

    BUILD ssv6xxx-aml (target)

    ## script to generate version infomation header ##

    make[1]: Entering directory '/home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/ssv6xxx-aml-1041e7d/ssv6051'

    make -C /home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/linux-6e79ad4 ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- \

    EXTRA_CFLAGS="-I/home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/ssv6xxx-aml-1041e7d/ssv6051 -I/home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/ssv6xxx-aml-1041e7d/ssv6051/include" M=/home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/ssv6xxx-aml-1041e7d/ssv6051 modules

    make[2]: Entering directory '/home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/linux-6e79ad4'

    make[2]: aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc: Command not found

    KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE:-DMODULE

    make[2]: aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc: Command not found

    CC [M] /home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/ssv6xxx-aml-1041e7d/ssv6051/ssvdevice/ssvdevice.o

    /bin/sh: aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc: command not found

    make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:309: /home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/ssv6xxx-aml-1041e7d/ssv6051/ssvdevice/ssvdevice.o] Error 127

    make[2]: *** [Makefile:1289: _module_/home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/ssv6xxx-aml-1041e7d/ssv6051] Error 2

    make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/linux-6e79ad4'

    make[1]: *** [Makefile:70: module] Error 2

    make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/ssv6xxx-aml-1041e7d/ssv6051'

    Makefile:12: recipe for target 'image' failed

    make: *** [image] Error 2

    ## script to generate version infomation header ##

    make[1]: Entering directory '/home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/ssv6xxx-aml-1041e7d/ssv6051'

    make -C /home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/linux-6e79ad4 ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- \

    EXTRA_CFLAGS="-I/home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/ssv6xxx-aml-1041e7d/ssv6051 -I/home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/ssv6xxx-aml-1041e7d/ssv6051/include" M=/home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/ssv6xxx-aml-1041e7d/ssv6051 modules

    make[2]: Entering directory '/home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/linux-6e79ad4'

    make[2]: aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc: Command not found

    KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE:-DMODULE

    make[2]: aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc: Command not found

    CC [M] /home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/ssv6xxx-aml-1041e7d/ssv6051/ssvdevice/ssvdevice.o

    /bin/sh: aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc: command not found

    make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:309: /home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/ssv6xxx-aml-1041e7d/ssv6051/ssvdevice/ssvdevice.o] Error 127

    make[2]: *** [Makefile:1289: _module_/home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/ssv6xxx-aml-1041e7d/ssv6051] Error 2

    make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/linux-6e79ad4'

    make[1]: *** [Makefile:70: module] Error 2

    make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/mark/myLE/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-MyLE/ssv6xxx-aml-1041e7d/ssv6051'

    Makefile:12: recipe for target 'image' failed

    make: *** [image] Error 2

  • LED (VFD) Displays in LibreELEC

    Hi,

    When trying to run install.sh I'm getting this error:-


    LibreELEC (community): 8.90.6 (S905.arm)

    LibreELEC:~ # cd /storage/lcd

    LibreELEC:~/lcd # sh install.sh

    insmod: ERROR: could not insert module /storage/.local/share/fd628/aml_fd628.ko: Unknown symbol in module

    LibreELEC:~/lcd # Open device failed.

    : No such file or directory

    I have vfd.conf in /storage/.config/

    My box is Sunvell T95M S905X 2GB/8GB. I'm using the latest DTB from adamg and the vfd.conf file I'm using is t95m-gxl-vfd.conf

    Cheers.

  • [8.90.6] LibreELEC 9.0 Alpha for S905/S912 devices

    Thanks for this work adamg!

    I have everything working on v8.90.4 and the remote is reconfigured fine.

    One small issue I have noticed is that when I wake up the box from suspend, the stock amlogic remote no longer works (my TV remote still works for the basic functions like up, down, left, right and ok etc, but the amlogic remote does not). I have to reboot.

    Anybody else notice this?

    My box is Sunvell T95M, S905X, 2Gb RAM, 8Gb NAND.

  • [8.90.6] LibreELEC 9.0 Alpha for S905/S912 devices

    Thanks for fixing HW decoding adamg

    I've just noticed that the box can no longer suspend. This was available with v1.0.8.

    Thanks again.

    I've verified that the steps to enable suspend have been performed. Namely:-

    "In 8.1.7 you can enable suspend/sleep mode manually:

    1. Go to \\Configfiles\sleep.conf.d (in Windows) or /storage/.config/sleep.conf.d (over SSH).
    2. Rename sleep.conf.sample to sleep.conf
    3. Open sleep.conf and remove this line: SuspendMode=false
    4. Reboot, enjoy."

  • [8.90.6] LibreELEC 9.0 Alpha for S905/S912 devices

    I've noticed that resume playback is inconsistent with v1.0.6. (I have not tried previous versions)

    With LE v8.0.0c onwards the issue was fixed with kszaq applying PR11713.

    Without this fix, there can sometimes be a discrepancy of several seconds (resume happens later than it should) between the reported resume time and actual resume time. Could you check (if possible) if the PR11713 is still being applied in Leia??

    (See here PR11713 - Search backwards for keyframe when resuming playback).

    It appears that the change was committed to Kodi master, in which case I would have assumed the fix was carried forward automatically into the Leia source code.

    Krypton "resumes" always start at the previous keyframe, whereas Leia appears to be inconsistent.

  • [8.90.6] LibreELEC 9.0 Alpha for S905/S912 devices

    Quote from adamg

    New version is out.

    kodi updated to latest version (kodi-150591e)

    Thanks very much for this. I just downloaded the latest version and notice that my remote no longer works - apart from the power button??

    I do have a remote.conf file in the storage/.config folder and this all worked with v1.0.3. The same remote.conf also has been working for a long time with LibreELEC v8.x.

    Does anybody else have problems with their remotes?