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

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      hhromic @BuZz
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      @BuZz yes, that idea of only setting the overscan scale on image building sounds good indeed!

      Btw, I noticed that the ES scriptmodule also configures gpu memory alongside overscan scale in config.txt. Perhaps that also makes sense to be done on image building? It falls under the same shortcoming: if users change their gpu mem config, the settings get reset on ES update/configure.

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        BuZz administrators @hhromic
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        @hhromic yep. I'll change it. This is code that dates back to the very early days of RetroPie.

        To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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          CapNinja
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          Hi, did a fresh install today and my retropie is up to date.
          I've installed this kodi today but it did not appear on my ports section or anywhere in es screen, what do I need to do?

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            Rascas @CapNinja
            last edited by

            @CapNinja Install Kodi in RetroPie-Setup.

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              ParadoxGBB
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              I've had great success in removing the overscan setting... if it's true that it should have not been set for hardware that doesn't need it, I'm curious whether I really do. Does anyone know if there's graphic patterns to check whether overscanning is needed?

              I had some time to look closer at the slideshow / picture issue I outlined earlier. The crash appears to happen for all pictures taken with my camera hardware. I opened up a thread with debug logs and additional notes on the Kodi picture forum website here:

              https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=338157

              Otherwise, things look great.

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                Rascas @ParadoxGBB
                last edited by Rascas

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

                I've had great success in removing the overscan setting... if it's true that it should have not been set for hardware that doesn't need it, I'm curious whether I really do. Does anyone know if there's graphic patterns to check whether overscanning is needed?

                https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Overscan/

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

                I had some time to look closer at the slideshow / picture issue I outlined earlier. The crash appears to happen for all pictures taken with my camera hardware. I opened up a thread with debug logs and additional notes on the Kodi picture forum website here:

                https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=338157

                Otherwise, things look great.

                I can't help you much with that, it looks like the decoder doesn't like pictures from that camera, probably a bug. Let's see what people says about it in Kodi forum.

                PS: Ask in your Kodi forum post to move it to the Raspberry Pi section, as it seems a RPi only problem.

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                  ParadoxGBB
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                  @Rascas , you're likely smarter than me (and this might be why I haven't gotten any bites yet on the thread yet), but so far I don't have any real evidence that this is a RPi only problem, although it'd make sense it'd be an underlying dependant package that does the parsing. If anyone reading with a non-RPi install would be open to trying to open up a picture for my curiosity to see if we got a crash, I'd be much obliged and would gladly provide one.

                  Today I got both Netflix and Amazon VOD working, and I just wanted to write down a few notes:

                  1. For Amazon, like many, I was having trouble signing in with captcha-like challenges. Like some suggestions I read, I tried setting USA as region / language explicitly and replacing network.py with a different version. At the end, what worked for me was deleting the addon userdata files (\configs\ports\kodi\userdata\addon_data\plugin.video.amazon-test*) and re-installing the addon. I restarted Kodi afterwards for good measure.

                  2. For Netflix, for my particular RetroPie 4.4 image I didn't have pip installed. If you're not a raspberian / linux guru like me and want to know how to install it, you can hit F4 to get in the terminal and install via:

                  $ sudo apt-get install python{,3}-pip

                  And then you successfully execute:

                  $pip install --user pycryptodomex

                  After then I did some shaking but then I could log in. Like other folks have observed for some reason some videos are coming up as the default language dubbed in German. I went into the general Kodi settings and explicitly selected languages and regions (region / timezone was not explicitly set). Also like a few folks have observed if you start Kodi and dive right into the Netflix plugin it will fail... you'll need to wait a bit (or try again).

                  Overall, it's great to have these streaming options, hats off to the developers!

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                    Rascas @ParadoxGBB
                    last edited by

                    @ParadoxGBB yes, please provide one or two fotos to test.

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                      ParadoxGBB
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                      @Rascas

                      Thanks a ton, appreciate it. It's zipped to ensure binary integrity. Let me know what you see.

                      https://1drv.ms/u/s!ArVgGNNmR7mK2IFHnd0B7B9RV5fByw

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                        Rascas @ParadoxGBB
                        last edited by Rascas

                        @ParadoxGBB Ok, I have tested that foto and I can confirm that Kodi 18 crashes when trying to vizualize it. It is for sure a RPi only problem/bug because it does not happen on Ubuntu x86-64 for example. Unfortunately, I can't fix it, i think it is a decoder/firmware bug, only the guys from the RPi Foundation can fix it.
                        I recommend you to report that in your Kodi forum post, Dom (popcornmix) will fix it almost for sure.

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                          ParadoxGBB @Rascas
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                          @Rascas Thanks for this, poked the thread with a few at mentions.

                          Just curious, Leia RC2 dropped on 12/4. Anyone know if a refresh for the RPi is coming soon as well?

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                            Silent
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                            It appears like RC3 is the newest, and Kodi is nagging about that - although admitedly I don't know if it's nagging cause there is a new version for rpi, or just in general...

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                              Rascas @Silent
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                              @Silent It is just a warning, it is general and there is no new version available on the repo yet. The warning appears only one time, each time there is a new version, but these are still RC versions so... I will update it soon when I have some free time.

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                                roadtrip111
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                                Hi everyone,

                                I just wanted to add my experience and how I got Netflix to run properly on my raspberry pi (so far). I'll just describe what I did, maybe it will help someone:

                                My system:
                                Raspberry PI 3 B+
                                retropie 4.4
                                Kodie 18.0-RC1

                                I access my pi through terminal via ssh to enter the commands.

                                1. "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade" (Optional, mine was up to date)
                                2. Update the firmware of my pi "sudo rpi-update"
                                3. "sudo reboot" (to activate new firmware)
                                4. "sudo apt-get install python{,3}-pip"
                                5. "pip install --user pycryptodomex"
                                6. "sudo reboot" (don't know if this was neccessary..)
                                7. download zip netflix addon from https://github.com/asciidisco/plugin.video.netflix
                                8. put zip on sd card of raspberry pi
                                9. install netflix addon from zip within kodi
                                10. configure netflix-addon -> input stream addon settings -> Max. resolution secure decoder -> 720p
                                11. run a movie in netflix, now it will ask to install libwidevine, confirm.
                                12. "sudo apt-get install libnss3"

                                Right now it works like a charm for me :D.

                                The only thing not working is the "interactive part". I wanted to see the interactive black mirror movie "Bandersnatch" through the netflix plugin, but when I start the movie, it tells me it is not supported to show interactive elements on this device. I don't know if this is related to the netflix plugin, to kodi, or to my tv...Anyone has an idea how to solve this?

                                Anyway, thanks for your posts everyone, it helped me to succeed with netflix running on raspberry pi!

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                                  Rascas @roadtrip111
                                  last edited by

                                  @roadtrip111 said in [Testing] Kodi 18.0 Leia beta versions now available for RetroPie!:

                                  Hi everyone,

                                  I just wanted to add my experience and how I got Netflix to run properly on my raspberry pi (so far). I'll just describe what I did, maybe it will help someone:

                                  My system:
                                  Raspberry PI 3 B+
                                  retropie 4.4
                                  Kodie 18.0-RC1

                                  I access my pi through terminal via ssh to enter the commands.

                                  1. "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade" (Optional, mine was up to date)
                                  2. Update the firmware of my pi "sudo rpi-update"
                                  3. "sudo reboot" (to activate new firmware)
                                  4. "sudo apt-get install python{,3}-pip"
                                  5. "pip install --user pycryptodomex"
                                  6. "sudo reboot" (don't know if this was neccessary..)
                                  7. download zip netflix addon from https://github.com/asciidisco/plugin.video.netflix
                                  8. put zip on sd card of raspberry pi
                                  9. install netflix addon from zip within kodi
                                  10. configure netflix-addon -> input stream addon settings -> Max. resolution secure decoder -> 720p
                                  11. run a movie in netflix, now it will ask to install libwidevine, confirm.
                                  12. "sudo apt-get install libnss3"

                                  Right now it works like a charm for me :D.

                                  The only thing not working is the "interactive part". I wanted to see the interactive black mirror movie "Bandersnatch" through the netflix plugin, but when I start the movie, it tells me it is not supported to show interactive elements on this device. I don't know if this is related to the netflix plugin, to kodi, or to my tv...Anyone has an idea how to solve this?

                                  Anyway, thanks for your posts everyone, it helped me to succeed with netflix running on raspberry pi!

                                  I believe that the netflix kodi plugin does not support it. Ask in their github page.

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                                    roadtrip111 @Rascas
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                                    @Rascas said in [Testing] Kodi 18.0 Leia beta versions now available for RetroPie!:

                                    I believe that the netflix kodi plugin does not support it. Ask in their github page.

                                    I just realised many people have problems with the bandersnatch movie. It is also not working on Chromecast and Apple TV. Might be a Netflix issue as well.

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                                      BuZz administrators @roadtrip111
                                      last edited by

                                      @roadtrip111 not a Netflix issue. Just older devices/plugins don't support it. My TV included.

                                      To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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

                                        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.

                                        This is the latest update released by you @Rascas?

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                                          Rascas @felipebrauna
                                          last edited by

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

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

                                          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.

                                          This is the latest update released by you @Rascas?

                                          Till now, yes. I will update it after holidays.

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                                            felipebrauna @Rascas
                                            last edited by

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

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

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

                                            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.

                                            This is the latest update released by you @Rascas?

                                            Till now, yes. I will update it after holidays.

                                            Ok. Thanks for reply so fast! ;)

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