TinyPPI - Universal PlayerProcessInfo for CE 22

acstom87 · 25 August 2026 06:50

Yeah. Right.
YT does not like TinyPPI. Something is not perfect.
If you look into it…thank you.

The SDR logo shows up in the top left corner, but the main window does not show up.
When I press the return/back button, the SDR logo does not disappear, but the video goes to the background and continues

Portisch · 26 August 2026 13:45

This does block kodi to end:

2026-08-26 15:43:50.636 T:1002     info <general>: ADDON: Dll Destroyed - Joystick Support
2026-08-26 15:43:50.636 T:1002     info <general>: unload skin
2026-08-26 15:43:50.639 T:1002    debug <general>: FreeVisualisation() done
2026-08-26 15:43:50.645 T:1002    debug <general>: Skipped 1 duplicate messages..
2026-08-26 15:43:50.645 T:1002    debug <general>: ------ Window Deinit () ------
2026-08-26 15:43:50.646 T:1002    debug <general>: FreeVisualisation() done
2026-08-26 15:43:50.671 T:1002    debug <general>: Skipped 1 duplicate messages..
2026-08-26 15:43:50.671 T:1002    debug <general>: ------ Window Deinit (MyVideoNav.xml) ------
2026-08-26 15:43:50.671 T:1002    debug <general>: FreeVisualisation() done
2026-08-26 15:43:50.688 T:1141    debug <general>: Skipped 3 duplicate messages..
2026-08-26 15:43:50.688 T:1141    debug <general>: Thread Timer 547217997152 terminating
2026-08-26 15:43:50.689 T:1002  warning <general>: Cleanup: Having to cleanup texture lists/focus.png
2026-08-26 15:43:50.689 T:1002    debug <general>: CloseBundle - Closed bundle
2026-08-26 15:43:50.721 T:1002     info <general>: Unloaded skin
2026-08-26 15:43:51.810 T:2378    debug <general>: script.tinyppi --> web: "GET /api/stream?token=STEPHAN HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2026-08-26 15:43:51.831 T:2163     info <general>: CPythonInvoker(2, /storage/.kodi/addons/script.tinyppi/resources/lib/service/monitor.py): waiting on thread 546849971552
2026-08-26 15:43:56.815 T:2377    debug <general>: script.tinyppi --> web: "GET /api/stream?token=GFTSDF HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2026-08-26 15:43:56.834 T:2163     info <general>: CPythonInvoker(2, /storage/.kodi/addons/script.tinyppi/resources/lib/service/monitor.py): waiting on thread 546281778528
2026-08-26 15:44:01.820 T:2370    debug <general>: script.tinyppi --> web: "GET /api/stream?token=GFTSDF HTTP/1.1" 200 -

jamal2367 · 26 August 2026 14:59

Thanks for letting me know.

I’ll be looking into it soon.

jamal2367 · 27 August 2026 08:13

@Portisch

script.tinyppi-fix.zip (664,7 KB)

Let me know if it’s better.

Portisch · 27 August 2026 09:51

Looks fixed, yes.

jamal2367 · 27 August 2026 17:05

Thanks for testing!

A new release is available in the repository.

jamal2367 · 30 August 2026 21:53

There is now a native Android app for TinyPPI. The dashboard in a browser does the job, but a browser tab is still a browser tab, so I built an app that speaks the same API.

What you get:

Live — the title with its poster, how the source is graded and what is actually leaving the box, the format logos, and the progress. On a box that allows control, the transport row sits underneath: play/pause, stop, ten and thirty seconds either way, a seek bar, volume and mute, plus a picker each for the audio track and the subtitles. The VS10 buttons are there too, offering exactly the conversions that apply to whatever is playing.
Readings — every row the overlay prints, in the cards it prints them in. None of it is composed by the app: the box renders each row exactly as the TV draws it, units and labels and all, translated through Kodi’s own string table. So a row that gains something on the TV gains it in the app, and the two cannot drift apart.
Metadata — the Dolby Vision metadata view, trim tables included.
History — the L1 luminance chart over the last minute, the last ten, or the whole title, and the event log underneath: every output switch, display mode change, track change, cache dip and temperature warning, with the position in the film where it happened.

Two things worth knowing:
The app holds one live connection shared by every screen, and after the first reading the box only sends what actually changed — so leaving it open on the sofa costs very little, and it drops the connection a few seconds after you put the phone down.
You can store two addresses: the one your box has on your own network, and whatever way in you use from outside. It tries the local one first and falls over to the other when that does not answer, so you never have to think about which network you are on. The second slot is meant for a VPN or a reverse proxy you already run — the usual warning still applies, please do not expose the add-on’s port to the internet directly.

What you need:
Android 8.0 or newer, and the add-on’s web server switched on under Settings → Dashboard. The transport row and the VS10 buttons only appear if you have also allowed control there. Everything else works read-only.
The app follows your wallpaper colours where Android offers them, does light and dark, and speaks currently English and German.

No iOS version:
There is no iOS app and none is planned. iPhone and iPad users are not stuck, though: the dashboard is an ordinary web page, so Safari opens it like anything else, and it ships a web manifest — Share → Add to Home Screen gives it its own icon and a standalone window without any browser chrome. Same readings, same remote. The Android app exists because a native one is nicer to live with, not because the dashboard is short of anything.

Download:
GitHub Releases

coreelec-user · 31 August 2026 02:50

@jamal2367 When open the addon during playing a Youtube video, the CPU usage is 100% and it takes a minute to open the info window.

jamal2367 · 31 August 2026 03:33

There’s nothing I can do about it. I’m not having any problems. Please report the issue to the creator of the YouTube add-on.

jamal2367 · 31 August 2026 16:15

A new and big update for the Android app is now available.

Download:
GitHub Releases

coreelec-user · 1 September 2026 08:47

After profiling the addon, I found the root cause of the huge delay for Youtube addon, the issue is this code

github.com/CE-Repo/script.tinyppi

resources/lib/info/mediasource.py

main


      
                  return _size_cache[1]
          
              text = _measure(path)
              _size_cache = (path, text)
              return text
          
          
          def _measure(path: str) -> str:
              """Stat *path* and render its size; '' when it cannot be stat'd."""
              try:
                  size = xbmcvfs.Stat(path).st_size()
              except Exception:
                  return ""
              if size <= 0:
                  return ""
          
              gib = size / (1024 ** 3)
              if gib >= 1:
                  return f"{round(gib)}GB"
              mib = size / (1024 ** 2)
              return f"{round(mib)}MB" if mib >= 1 else ""

size = xbmcvfs.Stat(path).st_size()

For streaming, the file size is not meaninful, and seems Kodi has difficulty to get the file stats. This code should be improved to exlucde video path from addons.

jamal2367 · 1 September 2026 09:48

@coreelec-user
Thanks for looking.

Try this and let me know
script.tinyppi-fix.zip (670,9 KB)

coreelec-user · 1 September 2026 15:17

Thanks. It works now!

jamal2367 · 1 September 2026 18:17

A new update for the Android app is now available.

Download:
GitHub Releases

neqwdtkukwjaanti · 1 September 2026 20:12

suggestion:

under VS10 it’s not immediately apparent if it’s selected DV (Original) or DV → SDR
highlight the active selection or make it more obvious that the output is DV (Original) → SDR if that’s what it’s supposed to be.

freddy · 2 September 2026 10:24

In VS10 mode ,when switching from SDR/DOLBY to SDR/HDR10, I have experienced a pink screen.

Not every time,seems random ,never while watching live TV, WEB Rip was issue.

Maybe it’s just me ?

frodo19 · 2 September 2026 11:01

All type of VS10 switching, with tiny ppi correct by me.

freddy · 2 September 2026 13:43

I pretty sure it was the media file ,I was watching WEB Rip/Stream of the new

Coyote VS Acme

Portisch · 2 September 2026 14:41

The addon does not always perform a forced mode switch.
But it must be done, also for HDR, not only for DV.
Otherwise the TV does not switch the HDR processing.

github.com/CoreELEC/xbmc

xbmc/windowing/amlogic/WinSystemAmlogicGLESContext.cpp

aml-5.15.196-22.0


      
          current_resolution.iWidth = current_resolution.iHeight = 0;
          const RenderStereoMode stereo_mode = CServiceBroker::GetWinSystem()->GetGfxContext().GetStereoMode();
          
          // check for frac_rate_policy change
          int fractional_rate = (res.fRefreshRate == floor(res.fRefreshRate)) ? 0 : 1;
          int cur_fractional_rate = m_amlDisplay->aml_get_drmProperty("FRAC_RATE_POLICY", DRM_MODE_OBJECT_CONNECTOR);
          
          bool nativeGUI = CServiceBroker::GetSettingsComponent()->GetSettings()->GetBool(CSettings::SETTING_COREELEC_AMLOGIC_DISABLEGUISCALING);
          
          StreamHdrType hdrType = CServiceBroker::GetWinSystem()->GetGfxContext().GetHDRType();
          bool force_mode_switch_by_hdr = (m_hdrType != hdrType);
          bool force_mode_switch_by_hotplug = m_amlDisplay->GetHotPlug();
          
          // get current used resolution
          if (!m_amlDisplay->aml_get_native_resolution(&current_resolution))
          {
            CLog::Log(LOGERROR, "CWinSystemAmlogicGLESContext::{}: failed to receive current resolution", __FUNCTION__);
            SetPresentationReady(false);
            return false;
          }

jamal2367 · 2 September 2026 15:38

@Portisch
Please make all of the VS10 switching options available as Actions, as was the case with the various custom CE 21 versions and as SamuriHL does in his CE 22 builds. Handling all of this sysfs/drm hacks is not a good approach and keeps leading to new issues and bugs.

I won’t continue working on this vs10 mode switch feature anymore with this stupid sysfs or DRM hacks. I’ve done my best.

If someone knows how to do it better or can fix the issues, they are more than welcome to create a Pull Request.

Thanks!