If you insert another usb stick with a fresh install it will boot from it, no need for anything more. We will be able to tell because it won’t be your customized skin and the first boot wizard will appear. The just put the dovi.ko in the right place and play a DV video. Don’t start by changing gui resolution or stuff like that. Keep it simple.
Ok will do & will report back soon - many thanks to you both.
You are right - a fresh install plays DV successfully, including FEL.
So…what part of a skin might have an affect on that - any clues for me? Do you mean something in guisettings.xml, or …? It seems odd a skin could interfere in the actual lower level playback. It’s a minorly cosmetically tweaked version of Confluence, so nothing too exotic at all.
Ideally I would avoid setting up everything from complete scratch, as that will take a bunch of hours, especially if I have to stop and check DV playback at every step of the way…
(It’s not enough to just change the skin back to Estuary - DV still doesn’t play on the ‘setup’ system)
You have to compare other settings. As you can see, the device can play DV. The usual suspects are gui resolution and all the related video menu
Yep I did a diff between the new settings guisettings.xml and my existing one, and checked all the vaguely related settings, and it appears this setting was stuck on 0 - so I have set it to 1 and looks like we’re good:
<setting id="coreelec.amlogic.dolbyvisionled" default="true">1</setting>
Because it was greyed out (with any skin inc. Estuary) - I couldn’t change it via the GUI. So don’t think it is actually a skin bug, per se, but rather something about this setting brought over (via restored backup) from an existing non DV install.
Anyway should anyone else hit this, solution is to change the guisettings.xml as above - but note this can be tricky as Kodi writes that file on exit (and other times I would think) - and doesn’t pick up the change ‘live’ when you make it - so you have to first kill Kodi, then change the setting, and then restart Kodi or just reboot - and hopefully all is well from there.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction…and yay for some working DV after all this time!
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Hi guys, I’m in need of help. I’ve got a freshly reset AM6B and then after booting from a CoreELEC USB I run the cemmc tool and when I try to install it as either dual boot or single boot I received this error…
Please make a dmesg | paste log from you system.
Hello guys!
My question is, is it possible to run the box at 4096x1742 resolution, like nvidia custom resolution on a PC?
I would like to use it for a projector with a cinemascope screen.
Thank you very much.
Here you go, thanks:
Has anyone else experienced an issue where the player just becomes unresponsive when playing higher bitrate videos? Like the video plays fine, but once it starts, the box doesn’t respond to any keypresses on my usb keyboard. Sometimes it’ll eventually work after like 5 minutes, other times I have to ssh in and reboot. This happened after configuring the recommended settings with cache and everything, and then I also tried a factory reset and it still occurs.
Hi everyone.
I have recently bought some Auro-3D music files, in WAV format. My AVR, a Denon 3800, can decode Auro-3D from such WAV files and does so consistently from both foobar2000 and Kodi under Windows, using WASAPI output. Meaning that every time I play one of these files the AVR recognizes the input format as Auro-3D/PCM and proceeds to decode the format from the regular 5.1 that the file appears to be to the actual 5.1.4 Auro-3D content that is encoded withing the files.
My problem on AM6B+ is that this happens randomly. More than half of the times, I press play and the ACR receives regular PCM 5.1 content. Then, sometimes, I’d say no more than 25% of the times, it gets Auro-3D/PCM and decodes accordingly.
On the same file, on the same session, on the same machine, everything the same.
I have tried looking at debug logs, even activating audio and ffmpeg specific debugging but nothing jumps out as a cause, everything looks the same, between the times the file is outputted correctly and the times it isn’t.
The only thing I thought of is that, in Windows, if I don’t use WASAPI (meaning Windows resampling the audio), the same happens. That is regular PCM is received by the AVR, since it’s been “touched” by the resampling process.
So my question, before delving into the nightmare of really trying to debug this, is: is there any reason that comes to mind that would lead CoreELEC to output resampled PCM from WAV files in what appears to be a random fashion?
Cable is HDMI 2.1 Zeskit Maya, high quality as far as I know and capable of handling everything I throw at it. Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision, HDR10, HLG, DTS-X, Multichannel PCM, DolbyDigital Plus, DTS, DTS-HD MA, everything. So I strongly, very strongly doubt it could be the cable.
Hi, currently I use my AM6B+ continually powered on. I am considering to use CEC and suspend when I turn off my TV, and resume when I turn on my TV. I wonder, if it is generally safe to do so, and if it would significantly affect the lifetime of the board? I guess S922X by design support low-power states, but I am not sure if it is a best practices use suspend/resume often. My questions:
- is there any wear on compontents like flash storage (eMMC)?
- is there some thermal or electrical stress involved when doing suspend/resume?
- will I reduce the lifespan of memory/capacitors? Or those components are designed for that?
Honestly, I don’t think I would gain too much power savings by using suspend feature - but if somebody can confirm it is safe to do so, I would still do it. Every Watt counts if we want to operate the box environment-friendly.
Thanks in advance for any comments.
it should and must be normal to shut off devices which are not needed. we only have one planet.
why should that device have a problem with it. normally it’s good. I’m even doing it with my oled b7 for about 8 years and the tv runs as new.
I personally would never use cec I just don’t like it. I have old remote power sockets via mghz transmitter so it’s completely off. I’m doing that with every of my 20 devices and I never had a problem. example is also the cheap harmony remote transmitter. surely worse quality than the ugoos. working for maybe 10 years every new day it’s as new 
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What are these patchnotes meaning? Who is rudi heitbaum? Can we get a simple patchnote overview in the future?
This is changelog from previous build. Because CE follows LE there are changes also for other LE projects and devices.
LE dev.
Why waste precious time to change such minor and not important thing.
it doesn’t seems to minor the me. what is LE dev?
Libreelec, CoreELEC is a fork of Libreelec. Heitbaum is a nice guy, from some place I forgot and drinks beer or not. I don’t know.
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Whao, does this mean latest nightly on -ng will use a much newer kernel? Shall we expect any regression on AM6B+?