9.2.2 Discussion

You are using a Panasonic TV, isn’t it? It’s common with this brand that CEC will not work properly. We can’t do nothing about it - you just can exchange your TV to another brand. :wink:

You can try your luck at https://www.pulse-eight.com/ if there can someone help you improving CEC handling on Panasonic TVs.

Or you can open a issue there: https://github.com/Pulse-Eight/libcec

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It’s Panas indeed.
Thank You! :slight_smile:

When the N2 goes into screensaver mode, I can’t seem to get it back by pressing any button on the remote. I’m using a minix neo a2 lite remote. Any help with this please? I have to resort to switching off the power and restarting the N2.

Okay, I’m going batty over this one. I’ve had my N2 for a bit now and love it. Recently I started upgrading my 1080 movies to 4k Atmos/TrueHD movies and they all fail with a hang or quit back to home screen at one point or another, usually within the first 10-30 minutes of playing. They will also hang on chapter skips/big skips.

Setup:

N2 4gig
Coreelec 9.2.2
eMMC Red Dot
Videos on external USB3 hard drives - tried 3 different ones on different ports
HW acceleration enabled

The typical log entry at point of failure is: CRenderManager::WaitForBuffer - timeout waiting for buffer

Short log snippit: https://paste.kodi.tv/dacekuvala.kodi

Complete log: https://paste.kodi.tv/evuqeroxon.kodi

I’ve tried different cache settings in Advancedsettings, default settings, just about any setting I can think of.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

same Probleme here 9.21 and 9.22
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Here the boot loop even occurs with USB devices plugged into the upper ports (one self-powered HD, one bluetooth dongle).

How do you “upgrade” your 1080 movies to 4k Atmos/TrueHD ?
Can you post a SS of “Player Process Info” (pressing “o” on your keyboard) while playing one of these “upgrades” ?

Sorry if this has been mentioned before but I still get that my picture freezes for a couple of seconds after I pause a movie and then resume. It started in 9.2.1. I have a Minix U9-H

Writing here after writing to the Beelink GT King.

Hello everybody.
I just bought the GT King and started using CE; last night I updated to 9.2.2
I find a problem with USB HDD handling (don’t know if GT King or CE 9.2.2). I’ll try to explain.
I used Beelink GT1 until I bought the King; my home entertainment is configured as follows: the movies in a HDD connected to a W10 PC and the Beelink connects via Wi-Fi. As I now have a UHD TV, I started to watch UHD movies that cannot be streamed via Wi-Fi because of frequent caching problems, so I got an old HDD and attached it to the new BT King (and before, to the old GT1) and tried to copy the movie files to it using the W10 PC. Copying is always interrupting because of some kind of problems. It is only happening now, it didn’t happen with the old GT1 on CE 9.2.1.
Yesterday I tried copying the files using the Kodi File manager and it finished without errors.
Is there anything releated to GT King or CE 9.2.2 changed anything in USB HDD handling?

I went from 18.03 build smoothly using the built-in update option. My x96 max + s905x3 works without any issues with every source I have tried so far (1080p, 4K HDR, IPTV etc.) and the max temp after watching 4K HDR for 1,5 hour was 62 Celsius degrees which I think is great as I don’t turn it off at all. My only problem is that my Samsung q70 remote doesn’t work with changing channels. Anyone else got CEC to fully work with this TV?

Thanks a lot for your great work with this awesome software.

They are all new - I am replacing my 1080 with 4k; just like I upgraded from a 55" to a 65". :wink:

That is not what I meant, Where do you get new 4k files and in what format ?
Can you upload a 30sec sample of any of these files ?
Do you have any addon installed or do you test these new files on a fresh install ?

SS obviously doesn’t work (again) on h265 video, but looking at info data, everything seems OK to me.

They are all 2160 Remux mkv’s. I’ll see if I can rip a short segment, but small sample files I’ve tried all have worked; it’s the 50gb videos that have issues.

I’ll try a clean install and see what that gets me. It’s pretty bare bones, but I do have a few addons.

You can try to cut one minute sample with new version of Avidemux. It should work…

Can you tell me where I can download version 9.2.1?
I have problem with CEC on Minix U9. On 9.2.1 it was ok

Activate 4.2.2 in the CE options.

I have not yet moved to 9.2.2 however, what you are describing happens to me with 9.2.1 on my Wetek Hub. What is happening with me is upon resuming the content, it plays from the buffer and then sort of freaks out a bit (skips, runs fast with no sound then freezeframe, then normal) while re-negotiating with my NAS. All of which happens in about 15 seconds after a long enough pause that the NAS closes the connection. Normal kinda network stuff.

Sounds like it could be the same thing maybe ?

Has anyone noticed an increase in motion blur? On Thursday night I watched a 4K HDR remux and noticed it a little and while watching a 1080p remux a couples of hours ago there was a lot more. I paused the film a couple of times and compared the playback on my PC and it played back fine.

I need to create samples of the scenes and check a couple of things. If it still occurs I will downgrade to the April 2nd nightly to compare.

Edit: It’s not CoreELEC, a setting on my TV had changed. After changing it back everything plays normally. :slight_smile:

Can get 9.2.1 here:-

I think I have it figured out and can only blame myself. Long story short, one of my routers keeps dropping connections after about 30 minutes of copying. Radarr ‘completes’ the copy ‘successfully’ even when the file is truncated.

New router on the way.