Posts by DaVu

  • DVD fails to start

    marc.bau

    Have you ever read that?

    Quote from DaVu

    How could we?

    You never gave us some full log files (because YOU don´t want that), you don´t provide samples, we can´t reproduce your issue (and we tried hard to do. We tried native discs, we tried DVD ISOs and we tried DVD folders navigating to the IFO-file and using that for playback and I (personally) re-ripped multiple DVDs in hope to get one which fails, which wasn´t the case)...so yeah, for the given combination of the mentioned things, we can´t do anything for you. Sorry.

  • Playback freezes

    Code
    21:14:18.235 T:1945559616  NOTICE: Disabled debug logging due to GUI setting. Level 0.

    Unfortunately not a debug log. So not much to see.

    But what I see is, that you have banned addons and repositories installed. To get any kind of support in here, you need to remove them. Otherwise we can't and won't help.

  • ​How to uninstall skin properly?

    You need to ask the skin author if you doubt that all of them are needed for his skin.

    Vanilla LibreELEC comes with the stock Estuary Skin. The only requirement for Estuary is:

    skin.estuary/addon.xml at krypton · phil65/skin.estuary · GitHub

    If you install additional skins to get additional features you need additional requirements, probably. Therefore the skin-author will know best what he needs and what not.

    If an addon.xml for a specific skin shows some requirements, then those requirements are only for that skin. Other skins might depend on other requirements. Some of those skins use the same requirements. It´s all done individually from the skin-author and reviewed by TeamKodi if the skin-author submits his skin to the official Kodi repo.

  • DVD fails to start

    Quote from DaVu

    It's not that we don't believe you. It's more that we can't reproduce.

    How could we?

    Quote from DaVu

    As I don't have those dvds, it would be nice if you could upload a sample somewhere.

    You never gave us some full log files (because YOU don´t want that), you don´t provide samples, we can´t reproduce your issue (and we tried hard to do. We tried native discs, we tried DVD ISOs and we tried DVD folders navigating to the IFO-file and using that for playback and I (personally) re-ripped multiple DVDs in hope to get one which fails, which wasn´t the case)...so yeah, for the given combination of the mentioned things, we can´t do anything for you. Sorry.

  • HDMI ARC Settings

    A pretty simple solution would be to get some HDMI switch. A thing which let's you select which device you would like to use. Those aren't expensive and the connections could look like:

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                      /-> TV
HTPC -> HDMI Switch
                  \-> AVR -> TV

    That assumes your TV has at least 2 HDMI inputs. In that case you can set up the audio settings as follows:

    For HTPC->Switch->TV:

    Set your Audio output channels to 2.0 and disable passthrough completely

    As your TV is stereo anyway, there's no need to send more channels to it.

    For HTPC->Switch->AVR->TV:

    Don't touch the settings you have done for the previouse combination, enable passthrough and enable any audio format your AVR is capable of.

    While using passthrough the "normal" audio settings are being kind of ignored as Kodi won't touch the audio signal at all then.

    The reason why you can't send HD-audio formats via ARC is most likely some licensing problem your TV has. Not any TV is capable to passthrough any audio format it gets. Some even aren't capable of passthrough normal DTS via ARC.

    Anyway....with the switch you are able to choose which devices you would like to use and send the signal the devices are capable of.

  • Connect laptopTo Tv Through Serial Port

    That's what we are after ;)

    Ok, knowing that the FN-key won't do what we want, I guess we can easily use a startup script. By default LibreELEC will execute an autostart.sh before the start of Kodi itself.

    - SSH in

    - cd .config

    now it depends on which editor you are more comfortable with (not sure how linux-savvy you are ;) ). So either you vi or nano to create a file in that folder

    - vi autostart.sh

    and fill it with the following content

    Bash
    #!/bin/sh
xrandr --output LVDS1 --off

    That should disable the LVDS1 at every boot and then after that is disabled Kodi should start as expected.

    If it still starts with inverted colours we can easily make use of other files. I guess we didn't even need to restart kodi. I guess more, it would be enough to reload the skin after Kodi has started and if the colours look wrong. So if that's the case and only!!! if Kodi starts with wrong looking colours you could try to use another startup-file called "autoexec.py" placed in your userdata-folder (/storage/.kodi/userdata)

    That file need to look like:

    Python
    import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin('ReloadSkin()')

    That will reload/refresh the skin after Kodi has startet. But I guess that's not needed at all.Only use that if the colours look wrong after boot.

    If the colours still looking wrong, we need to do something additional. But I'll wait for your report to not confuse things in a single post ;)

  • Connect laptopTo Tv Through Serial Port

    Before we start with some xrandr testing, have you tried using the FN+F5 button to swtich between the specific screens?

    As the xrandr command shows, both screens are "connected". LibreELEC isn't made for multi-monitor environments.

    So please, first try to use the FN-button combination (whatever it is, it might be different from FN+F5...a photo of the keyboard made by you could help in that regard), which is probably FN-F5 to switch the connecte monitors. Probably you have to press that combination multiple times as it switches from:

    - internal + external monitor "mirrored" (means both screens will show the same)

    - internal + external monitor "extended" (means that the laptop-screen will be extended to the connected monitor)

    - internal only

    - external only

    probably not in that order ;)

    if that fails or doesn't result in anything useful, you could try to manually turn off the LVDS1 screen (which is your internal laptop screen) by entering the following command:

    xrand --output LVDS1 --off

    Then the only connected screen should be the VGA1 which is your external screen.

    You probably need to restart Kodi after that. So simply execute: systemctl restart kodi

    Please do not reboot to restart Kodi as that would probably result that both monitors are connected again.

  • Connect laptopTo Tv Through Serial Port

    I guess the problem is, that you are mirroring the screens. So the laptop and the TV shows the same picture. If that´s the case, the TV screen might show, what the laptop presents.

    So I would disable the laptop screen. On some models it´s possible to use a key-combination with the FN-buttons and some of the F-keys. From the pictures I´ve found on google, it seems to be FN+F5

    if that doesn´t do the trick, then SSH in and get us the output of xrandr | pastebinit. You will receive an URL which you could paste here.