[Testing] Kodi 18.0 Leia beta versions now available for RetroPie!

[BuZz]

@wursti90 Netflix add-on won't play currently due to changes made by Netflix. See issues on https://github.com/asciidisco/plugin.video.netflix/issues

[wursti90]

@BuZz & @Rascas thank you guys for the support! even though it's not really thread title related :)

btw. installing pycryptodomex via 'pip install pycryptodomex' didn't do the trick.
so on my rapsberry pi 3b running retropie 4.4 logged in via ssh i had to explicitly set the user flag. That means after executing 'pip install --user pycryptodomex' i was able to login but now i am waiting for a fix :)

anyhow thanks!

[Cederick]

@Rascas Like BuZz said.. There was a new change from netflix and they had to do some changes to the addon.
@wursti90 They actually fixed it and now it's broken again. Worked until like 30 minutes ago...

EDIT: Did "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" and now it dosn't even open anymore. Now trying "pip install --user pycryptodomex".

I'm getting

Collecting pycryptodomex
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/69/e7/5c50af65e3d46a161181089aed939bce185ad61f6cc86779994e9d8280d0/pycryptodomex-3.7.0.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: pycryptodomex
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pycryptodomex ... error
  Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-3D6k7q/pycryptodomex/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/tmpcQULcVpip-wheel- --python-tag cp27:
  Testing support for x86intrin.h header
  Target does not support x86intrin.h header
  usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
     or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
     or: -c --help-commands
     or: -c cmd --help
 
  error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'
 
  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for pycryptodomex
  Running setup.py clean for pycryptodomex
Failed to build pycryptodomex
Installing collected packages: pycryptodomex
  Running setup.py install for pycryptodomex ... done
Successfully installed pycryptodomex-3.7.0
 

but I also got it without the "--user" the last time I used it. And it kind of completes it anyways.

Lastest crashlog: https://pastebin.com/67zwnMjQ

[wursti90]

@Cederick i don't understand your problem. please be more clear.
for me installing netflix worked like this:

1. install the netflix repo from asciidisco
2. do 'pip install --user pycryptodomex' from any terminal
3. install the netflix addon
4. enter account credentials
5. try to play any episode oder movie and you'll be asked to install libwidevine.
   this is done automatically so you don't have to worry about it. just proceed by accepting and giving green light to everyting :)

(6.) after that the addon promted me that libwidevine misses 'libnss3.so' and some other libraries. i think doing 'sudo apt-get install libnss3' solved the problem for me.

---

Now to your terminal output:
i asume (and your crashlog shows that) you are using arm architecture ... but the pycryptodomex package seems to rely on a library that is build for x86. i didn't had that problem (i guess). however after trying to build the needed libraries which seem to have failed pip still installs the pycrytodomex package. i don't know but maybe you are fine since as an arm user you don't need 'x86intrin'.

once again: what is your problem?

for me doing everything as descriped worked fine. keeping in mind that it didn't worked due to the changes on the netflix site.

And please i don't know how the others feel but posting crashlogs that have hundreds of entries that are not related to the problem make thinks worse. especially for me who never read any kodi crashlog ever before :)
i don't care whether you like to watch Hand of blood holding SPANDAU or like to listin to Left Boy. Daher: Bitte brich mein Herz nicht Baby und probiere dein Problem direkt nach dem starten von kodi zu reproduzieren. Also Kodi starten -> Netflix starten -> problem reproduzieren -> crashlog posten ;)

Schöne Wochenende (have a nice weekend)

[cebix]

I'm having the same issue as DeathWalk. It's only in Estuary. It seems the playback menu overlay is blown like a 1000x. Subtitles also don't work (which I guess they do work but are extremely offscreen and extremely oversized). I guess there's some scaling problems there with the menus/overlays, etc.

I updated from Kodi 17 on RPI3B+. It seems it's the beta 4.

[Rascas]

@cebix No debug log, no problem. This is not reproducible on a clean installation so it is probably a combination of some non default settings or some incompatible addon. Try moving/removing /home/pi/.kodi

[cebix]

@Rascas I somehow missed your debug post - I tried to make one now but once I reverted back to the Estuary skin the problem doesn't exist anymore... So changing the skin back fixed it I guess and I can't reproduce the problem again.

[manu3l]

Hello, everybody. First of all thank you for this great opensource work.

Second, I recommend to warn that it is necessary to have RetroPi in Stretch version in order to upgrade to Kodi 18. Due to dependencies.

For this upgrade, "first modify the files /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list. In both files: change every occurrence of the word jessie to stretch

And next, the classic: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade

I tested this version of the thread, version 18 beta4 in rpi3.

I recommend them. And sincerely it looks and persive just as stable as the (now old) version 17.3.

I could make Amazon Prime Video (https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=331136) go, after a long way, (Input, Wevine, EULA, etc etc) works fluid in 640p in a Raspi3, in 720p unfortunately the audio of the video is offset, this probably blame the DRM.

I haven't been able to run the Netflix ascidisco kodinerds plugin (https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=329767) , there's an error after the installation, and I haven't been able to check the debug yet.

Thank you for this version, it's a advance.

[Rascas]

@manu3l Thanks for the warning about Raspbian Stretch, yes it is true, it won't work on Jessie and RetroPie versions earlier than 4.4. I thought that was already in the first post, it was not and I added that info.
About the netflix/amazon prime max resolutions, the Raspberry Pi is not a DRM device authorized from Netflix/Amazon, so everything works by software decoding. The PI 2 can do about 480p max, the Pi 3B, about 640p, but can do 720p with some slight overclocking. The Pi 3B+ can do 720p without changes.
About the recent problems about the Netflix addon, it is already fixed in the addon, but I think it needs an updated inputstream.adaptive addon also. I will do that tomorrow.

[manu3l]

Also dist-upgrade to Stretch broke EmulationStation, giving this error: "while loading shared libraries: libboost_date_time.so.1.55.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Fix with sudo ./retropie_setup.sh and update from Source ?

[Rascas]

@manu3l That is something unrelated to Kodi. But maybe you can fix it running the retropie_setup.sh scripts, updating it and reinstalling Emulation Station.

[mitu]

@manu3l If you upgrade in place from Raspbian Jessie to Stretch, the next step is to update all packages from binary, including Emulationstation, from the RetroPie-Setup script.

[manu3l]

@mitu I try, but installing the EmulationStatio binary fails S:

[manu3l]

I try some times, update from binary... no works... but after reboot EmulationStation is back :D

Thanks

[Rascas]

Kodi 18 RC 1 available for update

Changelog:
-https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v18-leia-rc1-new-hope

Raspbian/RetroPie specific:
-Added various missing binary addons like pvr.zattoo, pvr.teleboy, vfs-sacd, etc
-All binary addons updated. Netflix works again if updated.

[BuZz]

Thanks. I have tested the new version. I am still having the issue with the on screen controls with estuary not displaying and the kodi interface breaking.

I switched on debug logging (which also shows the on screen memory usage etc), and then it worked fine! This is reproducable - switch off debug logging and the on screen menu won't show. The screen just dims - if you stop the video, the kodi interface no longer displays so it seems it's related to GPU somehow.

There is nothing useful I could see in the non debug log.

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/pmKw9RM9ZY/

Here's the debug log (which may not be of any use since it works when debug log is on)

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/pcQwGFQTkF/

Note this problem doesn't happen using a skin like Confluence.

[BuZz]

I have managed to work around the issue - seems related to "overscan_scale=1" - if I removed that from /boot/config.txt the on screen controls display correctly.

So either a firmware issue or a compatibility issue with Kodi and this option.

[cebix]

@Rascas How can you update to RC1? The first post instructions only get me the v4 beta. Thanks.

[Rascas]

@cebix said in [Testing] Kodi 18.0 Leia beta versions now available for RetroPie!:

@Rascas How can you update to RC1? The first post instructions only get me the v4 beta. Thanks.

In RetroPie-Setup go to Configuration Tools -> Raspbian Tools -> Upgrade Raspbian packages
Or in terminal do:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y

[Rascas]

@BuZz said in [Testing] Kodi 18.0 Leia beta versions now available for RetroPie!:

I have managed to work around the issue - seems related to "overscan_scale=1" - if I removed that from /boot/config.txt the on screen controls display correctly.

So either a firmware issue or a compatibility issue with Kodi and this option.

That might be it! In all the RPis that I tested I have that line commented, don't remember why. I know what it does theoretically, but I don't need it on my Pis. Can you tell why is it needed in RetroPie ?
I also took a look at Raspbian and LibreELEC and they do not come with that enabled. Since this probably is not much tested, the newer firmwares might have a bug.