2014-02-13, 18:20
Is there a way to enable the Hifiberry Modules in Openelec(only bcm2835 available)?
(2014-02-13, 12:51)Milky-Joe Wrote: I've only been using Gotham since the 2014-2-10 build (and I'm now running the 20140-2-13 build), but I'm having a few issues (using OMXPlayer):
- Sometimes, when playing a movie, only the sound plays (I can still navigate around my movies)
- Sometimes, when starting a video, the screen goes black and nothing happens *
- Some movies refuse to start (I haven't figured out if there's a pattern yet)
- DVDPlayer is too unstable, and keeps freezing
I am using caching (with a 64Mb buffer), and I have configured NFS with a rsize of 32k, but everything else is pretty much stock.
* Once this has happened, I've had the Pi refuse to reboot - it froze after clicking Quit > Reboot
# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.13.2 #1 PREEMPT Thu Feb 13 17:51:51 GMT 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux
# vcgencmd version
Feb 12 2014 20:29:25
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 981c14ae8229477232a0349d9c3abbedbfa68d99 (clean) (release)
# lsb_release
OpenELEC (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20140213175528-r17700-g56e8f72
<advancedsettings>
<video>
<defaultplayer>dvdplayer</defaultplayer>
<defaultdvdplayer>dvdplayer</defaultdvdplayer>
</video>
</advancedsettings>
no_hdmi_resample=1
hdmi_stream_channels=1
Quote:New OpenELEC Gotham build: #0213bOpening my movies list is noticeably much quicker now, and I only have a hundred or so movies! Nice
(2014-02-13, 16:43)popcornmix Wrote:I've set my gpu to use 256, but it's just happened again - a black screen when opening a movie.(2014-02-13, 16:28)Milky-Joe Wrote: I have a Model B (512Mb), and the gpu value is 128 (after running that statement).
Should be okay, but you could changing to
gpu_mem_512=256
just to rule out memory. Posting a debug may have some clues.
(2014-02-13, 17:33)popcornmix Wrote:I have been at 256 forever, which was the stock setting in my config.txt file — never revised by me. What are the disadvantages of 256? I have checked available CPU memory from time to time and always found plenty of free RAM. What about a setting somewhere in between 128 and 256?(2014-02-13, 17:31)Shanyel Wrote: @popcornmix
Following that note - is it safe to say that for Model B we should be using gpu_mem_512=256 on a normal basis?
thanks for clarifying it
No, 128M is the recommended value. There are some circumstances where this isn't enough, so if you are having problems, then increasing this value is a useful test point.
If the problems go away, then we know your use case is using more than 128M of gpu_mem and can investigate further.
(2014-02-13, 17:38)bAD kLOPFER Wrote:If you rename it back and do a normal reboot from the interface, I think your guisettings.xml file will get overwritten (and lost). Doing a reboot from an ssh session avoids this.(2014-02-13, 11:38)gusmin Wrote: - All videos either from Nas or Streaming Services played as Audio and not Video
- When i got to setting in whatever option i tried to get into (Video, Audio , System etc.) the system freezes.
I got these problems with some of the builds too. Renaming or deleting the guisettings.xml fixed them for me. After that your gui is back to stock configuration so it might be a good idea renaming guisettings.xml to .bak i.e. to check if it helps. If this isn't the cause you can still rename it back.
(2014-02-14, 01:14)LilSnoop40 Wrote: question, if I have a RPI can I just use RBEJ's advancedsettings.xml file and dump on my rpi. or must I use his image and all.
(2014-02-14, 10:19)gusmin Wrote: edit: Today i saw that there is a new build the #0213b. Does it only contains the patch for faster library performance or more as i am affraid to try it as soon as the #0213 works very nice with video playback.
(2014-02-13, 20:34)MilhouseVH Wrote: Build Higlights:This change decreased the load time of my library considerably. Great work guys!
- newclock3: New Ben Avison commit that improves performance of the CArchive cache considerably (this is used to cache items when entering libraries such as Movies, TVShows, Songs etc. so that subsequent entry to the same library is faster). I'd say that my 1GHz Pi with 7356 songs is about 4 seconds faster when re-entering the Songs library with this new build (previously taking 14 seconds, now only 10 seconds). Re-entering Movies is about 1 second faster (654 movies, previously 4-5 seconds, now consistently about 3 seconds).
(2014-02-13, 18:20)Bullsei Wrote: Is there a way to enable the Hifiberry Modules in Openelec(only bcm2835 available)?