[Chudley]

Recently I've noticed the HD deinterlacing has become quite jerky - this is most obvious using MMAL Advanced. I've traced this back to build 430 - build 429 is working correctly with smooth scrolling on tickers etc. Build 430 is far from smooth & the judder is noticeable quite readily from that point forward up to current build. If you bring an OSD up, the judder goes away which would point to 'fix newclock5 "remove gui"' commit and therefore ultimately 'Remove GUI layer during video playback when it is empty' from the previous day. This is the case for locally saved files as well as live streams using the tvheadend addon.

SD deinterlace doesnt appear to be affected however I've never been able to see any difference between MMAL advanced & MMAL Advanced (half) with SD content - both appear to be half rate when viewing scrolling text?

[Milhouse]

New LibreELEC.tv Leia build #0528: RPi / RPi2
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:

# uname -a
Linux rpi512 4.11.3 #1 Mon May 29 01:33:21 BST 2017 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
May 15 2017 17:01:07
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 9469ea3706e34c4de62f38a5008f69a429b4b43e (clean) (release)

# lsb_release
LibreELEC (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20170529013217-#0528-g4a5fc89 [Build #0528]

# Kodi version
(18.0-ALPHA1 Git:423072a). Platform: Linux ARM 32-bit

Based on tip of LibreELEC.tv master (4a5fc894, changelog) and tip of XBMC master (40f9340f, changelog) with the following modifications:

• 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 (32c28990, ahead +6)
  
• Includes latest kodi-platform master (36fb4937, ahead +1)
  
• Includes latest libcec master (3953f8dc, ahead +12)
  
• Includes latest libnfs master (eee1b4f7, ahead +94)
  
• Includes latest p8-platform master (2d90f986, ahead +9)
  
• Includes latest addons: inputstream.adaptive (f1f5539d), inputstream.rtmp (d93d32d4), peripheral.joystick (d6cbf198, +2), pvr.argustv (b281e04f), pvr.demo (ffee02b8), pvr.dvblink (6d42eae1), pvr.dvbviewer (3f05af60), pvr.filmon (300c595e), pvr.hdhomerun (9073b99b), pvr.hts (7f998e0f), pvr.iptvsimple (dbf6011e), pvr.mediaportal.tvserver (07d73f3a), pvr.mythtv (f2da22ca), pvr.nextpvr (239dbef3), pvr.njoy (4785afd2), pvr.octonet (9bbd7cf3, +9), 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: linux: update to linux-4.11.3
  
• 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)
  
• Include [env] PR:1469: samba: update to samba-4.6.4
  
• Include [env] PR:1655: add intel_nuc_led control
  
• Include [env] PR:1656: mesa and libdrm update
  
• Include [pkg] PR:67: Revert "Revert "change smbd and nmbd location"" (service.libreelec.settings)
  
• Include [pkg] PR:352: Fix: set wrong variable (libcec)
  
• Include [pkg] PR:12110: smbclient: cleanup smbclient configuration
  

Build Highlights:

1. More addon updates
   
2. tvheadend42 now builds with ffmpeg-3.3
   

Build Details:

1. LibreELEC.tv:
   • firmware: install wifi firmware from linux-firmware, cleanup wlan-fir… (PR:1635, 2 commits, 3 files changed)
     
   • mono: update to 5.0.0.100 (PR:1644, 2 commits, 3 files changed)
     
   • emby: update to 3.2.17.0 (PR:1646, 1 commit, 4 files changed)
     
   • locale: initial add-on (port #1531 to master) (PR:1607, 1 commit, 7 files changed)
     
   • tvheadend42: update to 4.2.2-32 (PR:1657, 1 commit, 3 files changed)
     
   • imx6/options: unify linux version strings and simplify it's usage (PR:1633, 1 commit, 5 files changed)
     
   • kodi: update to 423072a (PR:1658, 6 commits, 70 files changed)
     
   • ntfs-3g: update to current stable release (b77980bd)
     
2. XBMC:
   • [addons] cleanup versions.h a bit (PR:12174, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • [addons] fix addons in case interface is changed (PR:12178, 1 commit, 3 files changed)
     
   • Allow moving app to SD Card (PR:12168, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • CHG: [droid] stop video if screen goes off (PR:12170, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • fixed, runtime crash. CJNIKeyCharacterMap::load(deviceId) might be nu… (PR:12167, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • [fix] make optional dyload deps optional again (PR:12185, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • FIX: [droid] trap App icons not being bitmaps (PR:12182, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • [addons] add new IAddonInstanceHandler (PR:12164, 3 commits, 15 files changed)
     
   • [addons] change addon audio engine callbacks to new way (PR:12177, 2 commits, 17 files changed)
     
3. peripheral.joystick:
   • Fix wrong paths in README (PR:110, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • Fix unicode build on Windows (PR:100, 1 commit, 9 files changed)
     
4. newclock5:
   • New commits in this build:
     • fixup! Disable autoscrolling while on screensaver and while opening streams. (0de1de65)
       
5. Additional commits/pull requests/changes not yet merged upstream:
   • Added: [env] PR:1656: mesa and libdrm update
     

[start78]

tvheadend42 now builds with ffmpeg-3.3

Does that mean it is possible to transcode dvb-streams from a Raspberry Pi tvheadend server? Watching tv over wifi on my android phone works for some minutes but never long enough for a complete movie... Transcoding DVB-streams on a Raspberry Pi using hardware encoders would be really nice.

Some addons (visualization, screensavers) will be broken by the latest build. I've uploaded a new zip for visualization.shadertoy, I'll update screensaver.shadertoy as/when an update is available.

I can't use any visualisation on my Raspberry Pi. Don't have access to it now so i can't provide more information. It's giving me some error about missing a library as far as i remember. Sorry for being so vague...

[Milhouse]

tvheadend42 now builds with ffmpeg-3.3

Does that mean it is possible to transcode dvb-streams from a Raspberry Pi tvheadend server? Watching tv over wifi on my android phone works for some minutes but never long enough for a complete movie... Transcoding DVB-streams on a Raspberry Pi using hardware encoders would be really nice.

If it wasn't before then I don't expect that to have changed - the ffmpeg announcement relates to the fact that we've been downgrading ffmpeg in tvheadend42 to ffmpeg-3.1 for a while due to build issues that have now been resolved so we're able to build with ffmpeg-3.3

Some addons (visualization, screensavers) will be broken by the latest build. I've uploaded a new zip for visualization.shadertoy, I'll update screensaver.shadertoy as/when an update is available.

I can't use any visualisation on my Raspberry Pi. Don't have access to it now so i can't provide more information. It's giving me some error about missing a library as far as i remember. Sorry for being so vague...

I can't currently check either.

[popcornmix]

Recently I've noticed the HD deinterlacing has become quite jerky - this is most obvious using MMAL Advanced. I've traced this back to build 430 - build 429 is working correctly with smooth scrolling on tickers etc. Build 430 is far from smooth & the judder is noticeable quite readily from that point forward up to current build. If you bring an OSD up, the judder goes away which would point to 'fix newclock5 "remove gui"' commit and therefore ultimately 'Remove GUI layer during video playback when it is empty' from the previous day. This is the case for locally saved files as well as live streams using the tvheadend addon.

Are you sure #430 was the start of this?
The change should only fix missing codec info overlay. It should have no difference in behaviour for normal playback.

Does the issue occur when playing 1080i content through the file browser interface (rather than PVR interface)?

[Chudley]

Yes - certain it's 430. Reverted to 429 and hd works perfectly. I've tested an hd stream saved by tvheadend in mkv format through the file browser and it shows the same issue...

It is clearly still deinterlacing at double rate, just looks like it's not updating the display at a constant rate and missing frames repeatedly every second. I can provide a sample if useful?

[popcornmix]

Yes - certain it's 430. Reverted to 429 and hd works perfectly. I've tested an hd stream saved by tvheadend in mkv format through the file browser and it shows the same issue...

It is clearly still deinterlacing at double rate, just looks like it's not updating the display at a constant rate and missing frames repeatedly every second. I can provide a sample if useful?

Yes, provide a sample please.

[jollyrogr]

Can someone tell me how to enable the samba server by default in the latest builds? For some reason it is not on, and I have to ssh into LE to start smbd/nmbd before I can upload a new build?

Thanks

[Chudley]

Yes - certain it's 430. Reverted to 429 and hd works perfectly. I've tested an hd stream saved by tvheadend in mkv format through the file browser and it shows the same issue...

It is clearly still deinterlacing at double rate, just looks like it's not updating the display at a constant rate and missing frames repeatedly every second. I can provide a sample if useful?

Yes, provide a sample please.

Popcornmix - samples below - the ticker demonstrates the issue for me most obviously with HD. With SD it looks I cant see any difference between MMAL Advanced and Half - it looks like half for both - its always been that way from memory though so not related to this recent change in behaviour. If you bring the OSD up (or turn on subtitles) with the HD stream, it should become smooth again. SD shows no difference either way.

HD Sample https://www.dropbox.com/s/93p4jbic0ikwex...8.mkv?dl=0
SD Sample https://www.dropbox.com/s/pbn2anyrq3nnmc...9.mkv?dl=0

[Milhouse]

Can someone tell me how to enable the samba server by default in the latest builds? For some reason it is not on, and I have to ssh into LE to start smbd/nmbd before I can upload a new build?

Thanks

Go to Settings > LibreELEC > Services > Samba (or something like that, typing this from memory).

[Milhouse]

New LibreELEC.tv Leia build #0529: RPi / RPi2
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:

# uname -a
Linux rpi512 4.11.3 #1 Mon May 29 21:04:17 BST 2017 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
May 15 2017 17:01:07
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 9469ea3706e34c4de62f38a5008f69a429b4b43e (clean) (release)

# lsb_release
LibreELEC (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20170529210314-#0529-gfc27b68 [Build #0529]

# Kodi version
(18.0-ALPHA1 Git:423072a). Platform: Linux ARM 32-bit

Based on tip of LibreELEC.tv master (fc27b688, changelog) and tip of XBMC master (d6f4eda5, changelog) with the following modifications:

• 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 (32c28990, ahead +6)
  
• Includes latest kodi-platform master (36fb4937, ahead +1)
  
• Includes latest libcec master (3953f8dc, ahead +12)
  
• Includes latest libnfs master (eee1b4f7, ahead +94)
  
• Includes latest p8-platform master (2d90f986, ahead +9)
  
• Includes latest addons: inputstream.adaptive (f1f5539d), inputstream.rtmp (d93d32d4), peripheral.joystick (d6cbf198, +2), pvr.argustv (b281e04f), pvr.demo (ffee02b8), pvr.dvblink (6d42eae1), pvr.dvbviewer (3f05af60), pvr.filmon (300c595e), pvr.hdhomerun (9073b99b), pvr.hts (7f998e0f), pvr.iptvsimple (dbf6011e), pvr.mediaportal.tvserver (07d73f3a), pvr.mythtv (f2da22ca), pvr.nextpvr (239dbef3), pvr.njoy (4785afd2), pvr.octonet (9bbd7cf3, +9), 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: linux: update to linux-4.11.3
  
• 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)
  
• Include [env] PR:1469: samba: update to samba-4.6.4
  
• Include [env] PR:1655: add intel_nuc_led control
  
• Include [env] PR:1656: mesa and libdrm update
  
• Include [pkg] PR:67: Revert "Revert "change smbd and nmbd location"" (service.libreelec.settings)
  
• Include [pkg] PR:352: Fix: set wrong variable (libcec)
  
• Include [pkg] PR:12110: smbclient: cleanup smbclient configuration
  

Build Highlights:

1. [addons] small cleanup
   

Build Details:

1. LibreELEC.tv:
   • peripheral.joystick: fix JOYSTICK_SUPPORT build option (PR:1660, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
     
2. XBMC:
   • [addons] small cleanup (PR:12188, 1 commit, 3 files changed)
     
   • [gitignore] add /addons/vfs.* (PR:12189, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • [adsp][fix] CID 77459 & 169827 (Logically dead code) (PR:12191, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • ADD: [droid] allow autostarting at boot (via xbmc_env.proprties) (PR:12169, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
     
   • FIX: Handle removable drives for media window title (PR:12171, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
3. Additional commits/pull requests/changes not yet merged upstream:
   • Updated: [env] patch: Add kodi binary addons (pvr, adsp, inputstream, vfs, other)
     

[Milhouse]

Weekly Linux 4.12-rc3 build #0529x: RPi / RPi2

Same as #0529 but without the following packages:

Code:

media_build

[popcornmix]

Popcornmix - samples below - the ticker demonstrates the issue for me most obviously with HD. With SD it looks I cant see any difference between MMAL Advanced and Half - it looks like half for both - its always been that way from memory though so not related to this recent change in behaviour. If you bring the OSD up (or turn on subtitles) with the HD stream, it should become smooth again. SD shows no difference either way.

Can you confirm the exact behaviour I should look for on the HD/BBC sample?
I was expecting dropped frames/stutters in ticker every second, but it appears smooth to me.

Anyone else having this problem?

Can you confirm your settings:
Video acceleration: omxplayer? mmal?
Adjust display refresh rate?
Sync playback to display?
Deinterlace method?
Subtitles enabled?

[bill_orange]

This is going to be a tough problem for others to reproduce. I am not able to play music playlists using the Kodi-Alexa skill for the Amazon Echo.

Here is the playlist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="songs">
<name>Classical</name>
<match>all</match>
<rule field="genre" operator="is">
<value>Classical</value>
</rule>
<limit>100</limit>
</smartplaylist>


This result form the Kodi logfile is this:

16:13:25.428 T:1943417488 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: Opening: special://profile/playlists/music/Classical.xsp
16:13:25.428 T:1943417488 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
16:13:25.429 T:1855976352 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
16:13:25.433 T:1855976352 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
16:13:25.437 T:1855976352 ERROR: Open - error probing input format, special://profile/playlists/music/Classical.xsp
16:13:25.437 T:1855976352 ERROR: OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
16:13:25.438 T:1855976352 NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
16:13:25.438 T:1943417488 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [special://profile/playlists/music/Classical.xsp]
16:13:25.446 T:1943417488 NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
16:13:25.446 T:1943417488 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
16:13:25.446 T:1943417488 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
16:13:25.446 T:1943417488 NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
16:13:25.446 T:1943417488 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
16:13:25.446 T:1943417488 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting

The playlist works fine run manually.

The developer of the Kodi skill suggests that a parameter in the playlist function call used in his skill may have been depreciated between Kodi 17 and 18. He uses call Player.Open with the "file" parameter set to the playlist file. Is that possible?

Looks like this bug is affecting third party apps other than the Amazon Echo skill.

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=315249

[Aux_]

I can't use any visualisation on my Raspberry Pi.

Is true, I can confirm #0529