Posts by backslash

Quote from CvH

I have an Xbox tuner but no WP1/WC All I need is someone who could test it.

Sadly I cannot help because I am on x86 architecture.

If the devs need a XBox tuner for testing purposes, I am happy to donate one! I have two of them here (in Germany).

Just installed the generic version from scratch and smooth sailing so far. Thank you to everyone involved!

Quote from HiassofT

Mit ein wenig Overclocking und entsprechender Kühlung (ein etwas grösserer Kühlkörper langt) läuft DVB-T2 HD (1080p50 HEVC) am RPi3B und RPi3B+ flüssig.

Für DVB-T/T2 am RPi ist der offizielle Raspberry Pi TV Hat sehr gut geeignet - der funktioniert einwandfrei.

Mit einem GPIO Extender, um den TV Hat etwas höher zu setzen, ist auch genug Platz für einen Kühlkörper - ich verwende hier die BGA-STD-065 von ABL (ca 28x28mm Grundfläche und ca 11mm hoch).

so long,

Hias

Dass man beim RPi für DVB-T2 HEVC overclocken muss wusste der Threadstrater vermutlich genauso wenig wie ich. Statt mit einem neuen Stick kann er es ja dann erst einmal mit Overclocking versuchen.

Was versuchst Du denn zu schauen? DVB-T2? Dafür ist ein Raspberry zu schwachbrüstig, da er HEVC nicht hardwarebeschleunigt dekodieren kann.

Im Falle von DVB-T2 würde es nämlich am Raspberry liegen und nicht am Stick. Da wird Dir auch kein anderer Stick helfen.

So Airplay works in general? I thought it was broken in general. Does it work for you?

Thanks for the hint majofi! What are potential implications resulting from disabling ACPI HPET Table? Increased power consumption?

Myself and other users are facing this issue with Apollo Lake based systems in conjunction with LE 8.2.1. Once the system gets woken up from S5 the Kodi interface reacts sluggish. It seems that the CPU/GPU remains in some kind of low level state and therefore the interface reacts so sluggish.

Thanks for clarification!

Recording straight to mkv by tvh works like a charm. I simply selected the matroska stream profile within tvh. Seems to be hardware accelerated as well since cpu utilization of the J4205 keeps being very low while recording. Iam on a tvh nightly build from you. No audio glitches anymore in conjuntion with AAC 5.1 audio. Finally I can record and watch stuff from arte without any issues.

What would be the best approach to remux into mkv? At time of recording or after recording? And is this being done ideally by tvheadend or by some other service?

Thanks for the tip! Will definately try that though I hope that the issue will be fixed once Kodi Leia is ready for primetime. The strange thing about the AAC 5.1 audio hickups is that while watching live tv e.g. arte with AAC 5.1 audio through Kodi I have no audio glitches but if I watch a recording of the very same program the hickups are there. Seems that Kodi relies on different codecs for live tv and recordings.

I am based in Cologne and have currently a T982 (V1), a Hauppauge wintv-quad HD and the Xbox tuners at my disposal in case some testing is needed in conjunction with DVB-T2. I have still one issue in conjunction with DVB-T2 in Germany which is independent of the tuner I use but is connected to LE and more specifically to Kodi. DVB-T2 recordings which include AAC 5.1 audio have audio hickups if played back within LE/Kodi. If I play back the recording e.g. using VLC the audio hickups are gone. I think this boils down to the codec that Kodi uses for playback of .ts files.

I got a Hauppauge wintv-quad HD in the meantime and all issues are gone with this card. It seems that I never got the V2 of the DVBSky T982 but a V1.0b instead where the latter is not 100% suitable for DVB-T2 (in Germany) and behaves erratic ones both tuners are busy. So anyone looking for a PCIe card better pick the Hauppauge wintv-quad HD because this one has anyway better value with it's 4 tuners compared to the T982 with only 2 while being similar priced.

As far as I understand the opensource driver is part of the kernel since 3.19 but it seems that the firmware I mentioned above is needed in addition for the card to function properly which it does not in my case. Is the firmware "dvb-demod-si2168-b40-01.fw" included in LE 8.2.1 or do I need to copy it manually to my LE machine?

So the mentioned firmware "dvb-demod-si2168-b40-01.fw" is already included in in LE?

I am having issues with the DVBSky T982 card in conjunction with Tvheadend and DVB-T2. I am having a hard time nailing down the issue. As long as I am using using only one of the tuners everything works most of the time just fine but from the moment on both tuners are busy I face artifacts and dropouts that behave like reception issues.

Now I read somewhere that the open source driver for the card ist actually part of the 3.19 kernel but the same source states that the firmware for the demodulator chip still needs to be copied into the /lib/firmware folder. Do I still need to do this or is the firmware already part of LibreELEC?

DVBSky T982 - LinuxTVWiki

Firmware

The open source driver requires firmware for demod.

The easiest option is to download it from the OpenELEC firmware collection using the link below.

• dvb-demod-si2168-b40-01.fw

Place the firmware file under /lib/firmware.

It would be nice if you could submit this bug including the "solution" to the Kodi bug tracker:

Kodi - TRAC