Posts by DaVu

Yes the setting changes. In the past, if you enable "Sync playback to display" you have had some options...."Drop/dupe audio" and/or "Drop video". Those options doesn't exist anymore. Don't ask us why. Team Kodi removed them and we only use what we get.

So comparing with an older Kodi version (which OE ships) doesn't make sense. Probably even OE 6.95.3 might be older than our 7.0.2.

Getting no sound by disabling that feature is nearly impossible, because by disabling this feature you will have passthrough which you didn't have before. So...as I have intel hardware myself...the settings you should set are:

- disable "Sync playback to display"
- enable passthrough and select the formats your AVR is capable of
- be sure any setting is correct AVR wise
- enable VAAPI and disable VDPAU (<- this wouldn't affect the sound, that's only for video, but do it anyways because by disabling both you don't have hardware acceleration at all).

If you still have sound issues, then came up with a new log...

- enable debug logging
- reboot the machine
- play a DTS movie/file directly after boot (don't do anything else, no library scans, no addon launching...nothing...only the movie. If necessary disable "Update library on start" if you have it enabled and if, disalbe all PVR services you might have running)
- grab a log

Have you done what lrusak told you?

The device is conneted fine:

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from dmesg:

[ 5.998301] dvb-usb: TeVii S662 successfully initialized and connected.
[ 5.998379] usbcore: registered new interface driver dw2102

and the device is shown as "adapter 0" in /dev/dvb/

could you get us a screenshot?

shedrock:

disable "sync playback to display". As I said before, this disables passthrough, like it's explained in the settings if you move over it and look at the bottom of your settings menu.

enable VAPPI: Without that you don't have video hardware acceleration and all the job is done via the CPU which could cause some stutter (depending on the CPU). and DON'T enable VDPAU. It wouldn't hurt, but it's simply not in use because you don't have the hardware for it.

The rest looks fine. But for the reason you have "sync playback to display" enabled you won't get passthrough at all, like I said in my posting above.

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Synchronise video and audio to the refresh rate of the monitor. VideoPlayer won't use passthrough audio in this case because resampling may be required.

Helll...is it such a probem to provide logfiles? This is the 17th post now, logfiles are requested since the 5th post and none are provided.

nxnw:

Please always post your own log. Your issue isn't related to shedrocks issue. He connects his HTPC directly to his am via HDMI. You have a TV between and want passsthrough over your TV. That's different. So you either provide your own logfile or we are out and you might have fun sovling your issue on your own. We want to help, but if you don't let us, we can't do anything. Providing someones log wouldn't help even it's the same issue, as the issue might depend on a setting you did. Don't say "I use the same settings while using OE"....provide the log or try to fix it on your own.

Noone will look into this logfile, because it's not yours.
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chewitt:

I told shedrock exactly that and for him it's exactly this issue

No, always the full log with debugging enabled.

It's not the first time I read about that issue. Especially if you try to passthrough over the TV. Some TVs don't support passthrough from external devices. Yours seem to support it. IIRC it was something about how Kodi ships the data over HDMI. But I'm absolutely not sure anymore.

The settings level is not on expert by default. So please don't let me get this wrong, if you say "It's expert since installation". Then I have to say "No...after installations it's on 'easy' and you have to set it to". If you did this, then all is fine ;).

yes it's under system settings->system->audio->passthrough. I just "downgraded" my RPi2 to 7.0.2 to be sure about the location, as it differs by using Kodi 17 because of the skin change.

Probably you have to scroll down more.

Get us a screenshot from that screen, where you don't have it. That will tell most.

Btw....which skin are you using? If you use any other skin than the default one (Confluence in that case) please switch over to confluence first. Maybe it's a skin issue with the skin you use (if it differs from the default one).

Greetings.

none...I was only wondering because of the log being that long...

If I take a look at this at Line 201 in your log, which seems to open a video stream and then take a look at line 216:

14:38:07 39.683319 T:139990796261120 NOTICE: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86020, channels: 6, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through)

There don't seem to be any passthrough.

So if you are sure you have passthrough activated, are you sure you have "sync playback to display" deactivated. As this will deactivate passthrough

In the explaination of that setting, it's said:

"Synchronise video and audio to the refresh rate of the monitor. VideoPlayer won't use passthrough audio in this case because resampling may be required."

And if I saw it correctly, you have VDPAU and VAAPI enabled. You only need one of them. In your case, as you use Intel GPU, you don't need VDPAU. VDPAU is for NVidia and VAAPI is for intel.

But get us the screenshots. They will tell most, I guess. I'm not the biggest guru in understanding any part of those logs

Do you mean you won't get any epg until you reboot again or does it take just a few minutes to get the epg data?

Did you set your settings level to 'expert'?

Did you enabled any specific logging? The logfile is way to long for just booting, playing a dts file and grabbing the log.

Could you also please show some screenshots of your audio settings

Nothing against chewitts comment, but Kodi itself is able to add any available player you want. Of course not for any OS. So my point would be, if I'm not satisfied with the current way LE plays my stuff and if I would have something better at hand, I would use that. And if I have to use something else than LE, I could deal with it. But for (I guess) 98% of all users the internal Kodi player is fine.
As chewitt said...I don't think any other player will be added soon

To add additional/external players, read: External players - Official Kodi Wiki

That's not for LE, as you can't install any additional sofware (beside addons) except you compile LE yourself and add what you want.

You both should provide logfiles. Without them it's just guessing

I use TVH 4.2 fine on generic and I got epg every time after a reboot.

Don't have a team contact for fritsch, but I will ping milhouse for this. Let's see what he says.

you could confirm, if you switch back to 002 all works fine?

@mariol123343:

Noone will look into it without a logfile ;). As fritsch always said....no log, no issue

So please provide logfiles. As I guess noone will install any repo to reproduce it.

Just for my own interest, I installed the southpark add-on and tried. I don't get frame drops, but I don't have sound with it. So I would blame the addon itself for it. As other playback works fine for streaming addons (RedBullTV for example).

As I don't like the idea having a remote for every device I use (which are many in my living room), I decided to use a Logitech Harmony. But, and I know you don't ask for that, I use it with a Flirc dongle and I'm absolutely satisfied with it. With an older HTPC case I used the same Harmony with the internal IR receiver which worked well, too. So for me, the Harmony fits very well.

Please plug in your BT card, then SSH in and get us the URL you will get from:

dmesg | pastebinit

The model should be mentioned there in some way and for that it might be easier to figure out what went wrong.