Posts by bite_your_idols

I am trying to stream audio from my android phone to my RPi2. I tried this wiki and I have my phone paired and everything seems to be running, then I play a song in my phone it streams ok over bluetooth but in LibreELEC I receive no audio and it seems nothing happens...

please can anybody help me?

thanks in advance!

Quote from zachmorris

Isn't lakka built on LE? Or is there some technical reason the binaries from lakka can't be used?

yes, you're right. But lakka's retraroch binary has some additional features such as poweroff option or lakka updater... if a user use the latest lakka will updte and overwrite libreelec installation... I tried that way a lot time ago and some users lost their OpenELEC installation...

To avoid that you can compile Lakka and edit retroarch package file and change just one parameter, then you will get a clean retroarch binary. But I can not compile any linux distro anymore...

The thing is that in new retroarch 1.7.3 there are some settings to "hide/view" some options in menus so I can try to hide "online updater" to avoid users loosing their LE installation... I'm gonna try it out

Quote from Sepalod

Hi wintuxx

Could you solve your problem and maybe share the needed libs?

I want to use also the newest milhouse build and currently I'm getting the same error like yours.

Thx

I just released a new RA 8.170.9 version including those missing libs, I tried it out and it worked in a fresh new LE9 alpha build installation.

You can update from kodi's Gamestarter repo or download zip from here: game.retroarch-8.170.9.zip

Also, I tried to get new RA 1.7.3 binary from escalade's/5schatten's releases but I can not make it work in official LE build... Since nowadays I just use my RPi for hyperion/ambilight control (and twice a month to watch some downloaded movies) by the moment 1.7.0 will be the last RA version in gamestarter addon, unless someone offers itself to compile RA using official LE toolchain... sorry...

Quote from dalanz

Hi,

I have installed Gamestarter in my raspberry pi 3, and I can emulate roms from genesis, snes, PSX, N64... However, I have trouble emulating Dreamcast roms.

Could you please help me? I get the same thing with other roms (Shenmue, Sonic Adventure...)

And thank very much for your LibreELEC Addon. You are doing a great job!

Regards

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I don't follow dreamcast cores development but as I say some weeks ago these cores are WIP so I think that can be difficult to get them working in a RPi

Quote from wintuxx

All files are in newer version installed .... how can i get the old ones

you need to burn old LE in a sd, boot and copy all needed files. Then go back to your current installation and paste them.

check it is well named... also you need the missing ones:

libavcodec.so.57 => not found
libavformat.so.57 => not found
libavutil.so.55 => not found
libswscale.so.4 => not found
libswresample.so.2 => not found

Quote from wintuxx

Hi there!

i am using the following build from millhouse

LibreELEC Testbuilds for RaspberryPi (Kodi 18.0)

when i start retroarch, it starts kodi again.

Code: retroarch_debug.log

/storage/.kodi/addons/game.retroarch/game.retroarch-RPi: error while loading shared libraries: libavcodec.so.57: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

i have copy all libavcodec - files to /storage/.kodi/addons/game.retroarch/lib and rebooted. But no success

Anyone a suggestion?

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I guess after copying libs and rebooting the error is different, maybe another lib... you should use ldd command to get list of all missing libs...

I don't use LE9 testbuilds a lot time ago so I don't know if RA addon should work out -of-the-box...

I'm sorry for being absent but I don't use my RPi for emulation anymore so I need to get some freetime just to try to update addons and check how they work in newer LE versions...

Quote from dimiav

Hello,
I am trying to use it on libreelec on NUC.
games seems to launch and being playable. But the AUDIO doesn't work, even when returning back to Kodi the audio isn't working until I reboot the system.
I have tried configuring /flash/config.txt with the following settings but it didn't worked for me

hdmi_force_edid_audio=1
hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=16

anything else I can check?
thank you,

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Try what Mario77 says and you can also take a look to another users issues over here: Issues · bite-your-idols/Gamestarter · GitHub

Quote from zachmorris

I'm not sure Escalade is updating his build anymore. 5schatten has been updating a fork:

GitHub - 5schatten/LibreELEC.tv: A bit more OS for KODI

Thanks for advising, I need some time to take a look and see if we can use updated RA and/or ES.

Quote from Telev

So this is my question : is there a chance that you are updating the version of emulationstation by the version used by retropie ?

Sorry, I use ES binary from Escalade's build, so I will update if Escalade does.

You said you tried it but you don't say what is the problem you get...

did you install retroarch addon?

can you launch it?

These steps has no difficulty more than install a repo and selecting an addon from it to install, there is nothing to configure and nothing to try.

If you have retroarch installed (it takes about 3 minutes to install it) you should just launch it from addon section in kodi, thats all.

If you get some kind of error or problem, you must tell us in gamestarter´s thread what your problem is and we will try to help you.

Once you control retroarch then you can install AEL or Emulationstation as a frontend for your game collections and scrape them, but first I recommend you to get familiar with retroarch, you can find a lot of tutorials in the internet.

Seriously you are talking about how difficult is to use retroarch addon from gamestarter?

You've got to be kidding.

Go to gamestarter thread's first post, download gamestarter repo and install it in your device. Now you are ready to install retroarch (and AEL, or emulationstation addons) from kodi addons.

Launch retroarch and enjoy.

Piece of cake.

If you need any help use gamestarter's thread.

RetroArch addon v8.170.8 including new 1.7.0 release 💣

Quote from escalade

Anyone like an update?

20180202:

Code

linux: update to 4.14.16
mesa: update to 17c0e24 (18.0.0-rc3)
llvm: update to 5.0.1
xf86-video-nvidia-legacy: update to 340.106
xf86-video-nvidia: update to 390.25
curl: update to 7.58.0
libcurl-compat: update to 7.58.0
transmission: update to 2.93
ncurses: update to 6.1-20180129
LibreELEC-settings: update to f3bf1f2
binutils: update to 2.30
gcc: update to 7.3.0
libbluray: update to 1.0.2
btrfs-progs-system: update to 4.14.1
xorg-server: update to 1.19.6
xf86-video-intel: update to 26f5406
transmission: update to 81c9653
SABnzbd: update to 2.3.2
packages/escalade/python: package bumps and location updates
vulkan-loader: update to 1.0.65.1
ds4drv: update to c5b6661
zstd: update to f3a8bd5
openvpn: update to 2.4.4
heimdal: update to 7.5.0
glibc: update clear patches
samba: update to 4.8.0rc2
bluez: update to 5.48
emulation: package bumps for fs-uae, libretro-database, parallel-n64-libretro, redream-libretro, scummvm-libretro

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I've chosen not to enable RETPOLINE and KPTI as it supposedly can slow down the computer and I'm not sure how paranoid one should be for a mediacenter.

Thanks a lot! but... no RPi build?

Quote from Mario77

Any way of hiding a rom in ES?There is a setting in ES Ui settings "show hidden items"set to on or off but not sure what it does.

I have no idea... sorry... 😳

Quote from Mrfixit2001

I just opened this issue for the ROCK64 compatibility, in case anyone wants to follow or add detail: EmulationStation and RetroArch won't start · Issue #94 · bite-your-idols/Gamestarter · GitHub

ok, we continue over there.

Quote from hackbird

Dont know what i should use in lakka and rename for the addon. Can u say me what i need?

You can search and copy "retrarch" binary from lakka it should be in /bin or /usr/bin folder. Then rename and paste in LE installation in /storage/.kodi/addons/game.retroarch/game.retroarch-RPi and finally give exec permissions. I really don't know if it will work but it is whay I would do... Ir binary and cores are the same and performance in not the same then it is something related with OS or config settings.

Another thing you should try, before anything else, is to try retroarch addon with that core in a fresh new LE installation because maybe your installation has some settings or configurations modified, or even another addon is making some influence in performance...

yes, I mean that... but you need to remove also corename in es_systems.cfg, but this is just a theory...

Quote from Mario77

Thanks

It should open retroarch and list the cores you can run the rom with...then save the core you use so next time it just run the rom..

I see no option like that in --help:

-h, --help            Show this help message.
  -v, --verbose         Verbose logging.
      --log-file FILE   Log messages to FILE.
      --version         Show version.
      --features        Prints available features compiled into program.
      --menu            Do not require content or libretro core to be loaded,
                        starts directly in menu. If no arguments are passed to
                        the program, it is equivalent to using --menu as only argument.
  -s, --save=PATH       Path for save files (*.srm).
  -S, --savestate=PATH  Path for the save state files (*.state).
  -f, --fullscreen      Start the program in fullscreen regardless of config settings.
  -c, --config=FILE     Path for config file.
                By default looks for config in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/retroarch/retroarch.cfg,
                $HOME/.config/retroarch/retroarch.cfg,
                and $HOME/.retroarch.cfg.
                If a default config is not found, the program will attempt to create one based on the
                skeleton config (/etc/retroarch.cfg).

      --appendconfig=FILE
                        Extra config files are loaded in, and take priority over
                        config selected in -c (or default). Multiple configs are
                        delimited by '|'.
  -L, --libretro=FILE   Path to libretro implementation. Overrides any config setting.
      --subsystem=NAME  Use a subsystem of the libretro core. Multiple content
                        files are loaded as multiple arguments. If a content
                        file is skipped, use a blank ("") command line argument.
                        Content must be loaded in an order which depends on the
                        particular subsystem used. See verbose log output to learn
                        how a particular subsystem wants content to be loaded.

  -N, --nodevice=PORT
                        Disconnects controller device connected to PORT (1 to 16).
  -A, --dualanalog=PORT
                        Connect a DualAnalog controller to PORT (1 to 16).
  -d, --device=PORT:ID
                        Connect a generic device into PORT of the device (1 to 16).
                        Format is PORT:ID, where ID is a number corresponding to the particular device.
  -P, --bsvplay=FILE    Playback a BSV movie file.
  -R, --bsvrecord=FILE  Start recording a BSV movie file from the beginning.
      --eof-exit        Exit upon reaching the end of the BSV movie file.
  -M, --sram-mode=MODE  SRAM handling mode. MODE can be 'noload-nosave',
                        'noload-save', 'load-nosave' or 'load-save'.
                        Note: 'noload-save' implies that save files *WILL BE OVERWRITTEN*.
  -H, --host            Host netplay as user 1.
  -C, --connect=HOST    Connect to netplay server as user 2.
      --port=PORT       Port used to netplay. Default is 55435.
      --stateless       Use "stateless" mode for netplay
                        (requires a very fast network).
      --check-frames=NUMBER
                        Check frames when using netplay.
      --command         Sends a command over UDP to an already running program process.
      Available commands are listed if command is invalid.
      --nick=NICK       Picks a username (for use with netplay). Not mandatory.
  -r, --record=FILE     Path to record video file.
        Using .mkv extension is recommended.
      --recordconfig    Path to settings used during recording.
      --size=WIDTHxHEIGHT
                        Overrides output video size when recording.
  -U, --ups=FILE        Specifies path for UPS patch that will be applied to content.
      --bps=FILE        Specifies path for BPS patch that will be applied to content.
      --ips=FILE        Specifies path for IPS patch that will be applied to content.
      --no-patch        Disables all forms of content patching.
  -D, --detach          Detach program from the running console. Not relevant for all platforms.
      --max-frames=NUMBER
                        Runs for the specified number of frames, then exits.

I think that editing gamelists as I said before can make the trick...