(2017-06-26, 21:27)Vimes Wrote: Any idea what causes the spinning icon and the message "Preparing" on the top right when first booted.?
Sometimes mine will keep doing that and if I try to play something it will then freeze.

• Includes newclock5 patches
  
• Excludes the LibreELEC linux-01-RPi_support patch in favour of sourcing these and possibly more recent patches directly from kernel branch rpi-4.11.y
  
• Includes latest bcm2835-driver master (4b29d95b, ahead +8)
  
• Includes latest kodi-platform master (36fb4937)
  
• Includes latest libcec master (3953f8dc, ahead +12)
  
• Includes latest libnfs master (12a27fd8, ahead +114)
  
• Includes latest p8-platform master (2d90f986)
  
• Includes latest addons: inputstream.adaptive (a1d37ac5), inputstream.rtmp (6db3697a), peripheral.joystick (f5538d25, +1), pvr.argustv (b281e04f), pvr.demo (ffee02b8), pvr.dvblink (6d42eae1), pvr.dvbviewer (a5db9ddb), pvr.filmon (300c595e), pvr.hdhomerun (9073b99b), pvr.hts (2651886f), pvr.iptvsimple (dbf6011e), pvr.mediaportal.tvserver (07d73f3a), pvr.mythtv (fbb7e561), pvr.nextpvr (239dbef3), pvr.njoy (4785afd2), pvr.octonet (9bbd7cf3), pvr.pctv (f61e2541), pvr.stalker (151e3d3f), pvr.vbox (df9efea4), pvr.vdr.vnsi (40dc17d0), pvr.vuplus (83a729ea), pvr.wmc (93cebfc7), vfs.rar (4ce78b0f)
  
• Include [env] compare: kodi18a1 latest updates
  
• Include [env] compare: linux: update to linux-4.11.7
  
• Include [env] patch: inputstream.rtmp: disable outdated addons that no longer build
  
• Include [env] patch: Bump included addon versions to prevent online updates
  
• Include [env] patch: Add experimental splash video for RPi
  
• Include [env] patch: HACK: Disable multiple PVR addons during migration. Always enable inputstream.* and os.*
  
• Include [env] patch: Add kodi binary addons (pvr, adsp, inputstream, vfs, other)
  
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• Include [env] PR:1690: Enable -fPIC for some packages
  
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1. New firmware
   
2. New 4.11.7 kernel
   
3. Bump to 3.3.2-Leia-Alpha-1 (in kodi18a1 latest updates)
   
4. [peripheral] change addon interface to new C++ style
   
5. Drop inputstream.rtmp until it is compatible with latest Kodi master
   
6. PR:1726: [WIP] lirc: update to 0.10.0
   
7. VideoPlayer/MMAL updates
   

1. Firmware (Jun 26):
   • firmware: imx219: Extend line length for long frame times
     
   • firmware: 2ndstage: Improve i2c_gpio support
     
   • firmware: i2c_gpio: Improve implementation and usage
     
   • firmware: Camplus: Enable RAW12 support in the ISP input formatter
     
   • firmware: scalerlib: Don't flip tiled format and swap R/B
     
   • firmware: arm_display: Provide mechanism to request tiled format framebuffer. See: link
     
   • firmware: platform: Set BT LPO frequency to 32768Hz. See: link
     
2. LibreELEC.tv:
   • fuse: don't run /usr/sbin/update-rc.d on install (PR:1718, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • openssl: update to openssl-1.0.2l (PR:1713, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • spotify-connect-web: remove addon (PR:1721, 1 commit, 9 files changed)
     
   • activate swap for all projects (PR:1717, 2 commits, 8 files changed)
     
   • mpd: update to 0.20.9 (PR:1722, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
     
   • tvheadend42: update to 4.2.2-75 (PR:1724, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
     
   • librespot: initial addon (PR:1676, 5 commits, 15 files changed)
     
   • intel-ucode: update to 20170511 (PR:1729, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
3. XBMC:
   • FIX: [amc] proper VP6 mime (fixes #17511) (PR:12349, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • [cleanup] Remove HAS_VIDEO_PLAYBACK nonsense. (PR:12346, 1 commit, 8 files changed)
     
   • [settings] add "masking" to "path" type (PR:12348, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • [peripheral] change addon interface to new C++ style (PR:12333, 3 commits, 25 files changed)
     
   • [depends] - fixes for tvos (PR:12355, 2 commits, 3 files changed)
     
   • FFmpeg: Bump to 3.3.2-Leia-Alpha-1 (PR:12358, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • [ios/ios64] - bump xcode and sdk to fix ios64 compilation (PR:12298, 3 commits, 1 file changed)
     
   • Fix MakeShortenPath (PR:12359, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
     
   • apple: code cosmetics, remove white spaces (PR:12364, 1 commit, 19 files changed)
     
   • [addons/settings] fix loading scraper settings from the database (PR:12360, 2 commits, 3 files changed)
     
   • start killing PlatformDefs (PR:12353, 4 commits, 29 files changed)
     
   • Avoid incorrectly matching years in mini-series titles during TV enumeration matching (PR:12344, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • [GUI] Optimize InfoBools / additions / fixes for gui:martredraw (PR12213) (0de583a5)
     
   • Addonvideocodec Implementation (#12340) (66233da3)
     
4. inputstream.adaptive:
   • agile / kid from PIFF (d8e8a33b)
     
   • Merge branch 'agile' of https://github.com/peak2d/inputstream.adaptive into agile (3064799e)
     
   • agile crypto syntax (a447d832)
     
   • Merge remote-tracking branch 'peak3d/agile' into agile (c3361387)
     
   • fix wrong assignement (ba9ca9d7)
     
   • dont return subSampleCount=0 (c31dca62)
     
   • <blah - history trashed>
     
5. peripheral.joystick:
   • Change to new C++ based addon interface style (PR:112, 1 commit, 61 files changed)
     
6. newclock5:
   • New commits in this build:
     • VideoPlayer: have platforms register their laform specific codecs into factory (86fbb144)
       
     • VideoPlayer: make AddonVideoCodec compile - fix me (ca7e8bcb)
       
     • VideoPlayer: vaapi - factor out egl interop (89b2447f)
       
     • VideoPlayer: vdpau - add register codec (d742045a)
       
     • X11: register vdpau and vaapi (41e14a5f)
       
     • MMAL: Register HW codecs from windowing (91966374)
       
     • MMAL: Add hevc support by allowing 4 planes (509a19f0)
       
     • MMAL: Pool should be created with unknown encoding type (ca659ccc)
       
   • Updated commits in this build:
     • Revert "mmalcodec: Treat corrupt frames as dropped" (b2474991 => fbf786d0)
       
   • Commits no longer in build:
     • MMALRender: Allow advanced deinterlace with software decode (ea962bea)
       
     • VideoBuffers: Allow 4 planes (466a3d00)
       
     • MMAL: Add hevc support (a2dd5ddb)
       
7. Additional commits/pull requests/changes not yet merged upstream:
   • Added: [env] patch: inputstream.rtmp: disable outdated addons that no longer build
     
   • Added: [env] PR:1726: [WIP] lirc: update to 0.10.0
     

(2017-06-27, 00:51)Milhouse Wrote:

(2017-06-26, 21:27)Vimes Wrote: Any idea what causes the spinning icon and the message "Preparing" on the top right when first booted.?
Sometimes mine will keep doing that and if I try to play something it will then freeze.

Is it this? https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=298462&pid=2588614#pid2588614 (also see my reply in the next post).