Posts by Klojum

Quote from dtech

Is there a chance now that v9.2.8 will be released?

If you need a banner image for this version, I send a photo of my crazycat who stole my remote control.

There is always a chance... Just not today. We're also busy with (finally!) finetuning and fixing the Settings Add-on.

We're also kind of 'tired' of cat pics as release art. The cats were never meant as a true LibreELEC representative, we are still looking for a proper 'theme' for the next set of LibreELEC releases. Ideas can be forwarded to the Team.

Quote from milo

Any eta for the release?

The release of the Kraken?! Nope.

Any other release? Nope as well.

You could have a look at Handbrake. A video tool which should also support cropping.

It depends a bit on the type of black bars, and how large they are. If you have 16:9 videos that have black bars top & bottom, it depends on how much actual video is shown.

The video aspect ratio default these days is 16:9. used in 1920x1080 or 3840x2160.

Netflix has TV series that go 18:9, so with small black bars.

Movies can use the 21:9 aspect ratio, as in 1920x800 or 2560x1080 for example.

The problem is that you cannot fully hide black bars without cutting off some of the video image. Just like you cannot fit a square block in a circle opening. If you have a 16:9 TV, a 21:9 video is quite difficult to fit. On the other hand, a 21:9 monitor/tv will have black bars left & right when displaying a 16:9 video.

Do you see the problem?

Actual removal of black bars which are muxed into videos, can be removed using a PC with the tool ffmpeg . It does depend on which video graphics card you have.

If you also have the tool ffplay , you can test your crop paramaters to slim down the video.

Example for viewing a FullHD video with black bar at the top and bottom.

 ffplay -vf crop=1920:960:0:60 yourvideofile.mkv

If you are watching videos with some RPi or Android box, then you could try the "zoom" option, but that will always lead to a video display of which part of the video is cut off.

Quote from EvilWayz

Im still using the latest version of Leia, if that helps.

Not really. Apparently there some changes and fixes going on. For reference, have a read here: Universal Movie Scraper

I had one of those too with a new tv series using Matrix. Someone on the Kodi forum mentioned it's a problem for TMDB to fix, so we may need to wait a couple of days for a solution.

Quote from JDBx

- Some default add-ons let me see the movie lists (like the PopCornFlix and Comet TV add-ons) but if I try to play a movie, I get an error log message (wish I could be more specific!)

- When consulting message boards and tutorials, it appears I am missing some add-ons sources like fusionco repository that allows for GitHub add-ons (I did activate the 3rd party source in Kodi). Is this normal in Kodi Leia 18.9?

Just as a sidenote (in case you may have missed it by not [yet] reading our forum rules): any add-on solution that facilitates video piracy in any way is off-limits. In such cases you'll be asked to find support for your Kodi problems elsewhere.

You can be more specific by providing the kodi.log of your device, via a pastebin website.

I always carry a bootable USB stick with PartedMagic that has various tools onboard, a sort of Swiss army knife.

You should be able to adjust sharpening for Nvidia graphics in Kodi's Video OSD menu.

30-70 watts more just for playing a video? Damn...

Quote from SGResu

Here is what I see from gparted, if I remember well, sda6 and sda7 are Openelec partitions.

Are them enough?

The system partition is 1,000 MB, so that is more than enough.

The problem is the data partition. It's only 1,78GB in size. Less than 2GB. With a couple of add-ons and the thumbnail cache for a decent movie and tv collection, something like 4GB and higher is recommended.

I have no idea what /dev/sd5 contains but that ext4 partition seems big. You could resize that some 4GB smaller, move up both OE partitions, and then increase the size of the /dev/sd7 data partition with that 4GB to the disk's end.

And also rename the labels of sd6 and sd7 while you're at it.

JDBx Any type or form of image writer should work when writing the LibreELEC image to a SDcard, USB stick or other drive.

That said, it's not impossible that one method doesn't and the other method does work for you. Personally I have had hiccups with LibreELEC's own USB/SD Creator tool. After some testing, I find that Rufus (in Windows) works best for me.

MiniHDMI ports need not to be activated, although Kodi only uses HDMI0 (closest to the USB-C power slot).

Wireless keyboard support depends on their keyboard type. Bluetooth needs to be paired first, and those with their own USB receiver dongle "should work" instantly on Linux. But... "your mileage may vary" since we also have no exact details on your hardware accessories.

I'm using 3 NFS system mounts in my autostart.sh in a RPi4b with wifi, and they usually work using "Wait for network".

All without the #!/bin/sh( .. )& part.

It's possible that PXE boot is not yet part of the RPi4B firmware.

You could double-check at the Raspberry Pi forums/devs to hear what the status on network booting is.

Quote from Pokey

is it really worth swapping out my HTPC Gtx 1050

The least you can do is swap the cards and check if the RX570 is properly supported in various video types and sizes.

Also a watt meter could be useful in comparing the electricity draw for each card.

Isn't there a problem when there is a key icon in the partition entry..?

Is GParted's partition check okay?

Quote from SGResu

I have a NUC with openelec, linux and windows. I'd like to replace openelec with Libreelec and I wonder if the usb install will break the multi boot option.

Assuming all is installed on one HDD/SSD, it's best to increase the system partition of OpenELEC to at least 512MB. GParted is an easy tool for that. Don't use the LibreELEC installer as it will fully wipe the HDD/SSD in the NUC.

Then manually replace the system files with those of LibreELEC while you are running Linx, and also clean out the data partition. A fresh install is best, considering the age of OpenELEC and its add-ons.

GRUB needn't be upgraded, this is to be determined by the Linux OS you have.