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

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    • ledowL
      ledow
      last edited by

      There was no update for that package available.

      I compiled and installed it myself using the instructions here:

      https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.hts

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        mitu Global Moderator @ledow
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        @ledow The package is available from the same repository as Kodi, at version 4.4.12

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          Rascas @ledow
          last edited by Rascas

          @ledow Remove what you compiled and install the package in the repo:

          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install kodi-pvr-hts
          

          PS: If you updated Kodi via RetroPie-Setup -> packages -> Kodi -> Update from binary, it is possible that it only updates the Kodi binary itself and its dependencies, but not the binary addons. But if you go to Configuration / Tools - > raspbiantools -> Upgrade Raspbian packages, everything will get updated.

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            ashleywilliams
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            Hi guys. I am using Retropie and Kodi for more than a year now. Today I updated everything and received Kodi 18 Leia. Now I got the problem that half of my videos aren't playable anymore. When I start them it got just directly back to the library. I tried to remove Kodi and reinstall it, remove all Kodi settings, to set gpu memory and searched the web for hours - nothing helped. Under Krypton I had no such issues. Anyone else with this problem? Any ideas what to try?
            Any idea how to downgrade back to Krypton? Thanks a lot!

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              Rascas @ashleywilliams
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              @ashleywilliams Do you have your library videos remotely ? If so, what protocol are you using? NFS, Samba, etc ?
              It is better that you reproduce de problem and post here your Kodi debug log after:
              https://kodi.wiki/view/Log_file

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                ashleywilliams @Rascas
                last edited by ashleywilliams

                @Rascas Sure, here it is: https://paste.kodi.tv/kovubagiki
                Thank you in anticipation!

                All videos are the same NAS using smb. What I did in the log above is: Restart Kodi, open a video that is working ("Mad Mission 5 (HK-Fassung).mkv"), closing the video, opening a video that isn't working ("Space Invaders [Arrow Video 4K-Remastered].mkv").

                I am using the "Raspberry Pi 3 Modell B+, 1 GB". To re-encode the files is no option, on Krypton EVERY video was working. Downgrading could be a last option - but I don't know how to.

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                • ledowL
                  ledow @mitu
                  last edited by

                  @mitu @Rascas - did that.

                  Got Kodi on there by doing a "apt-get update" / RetroPie Setup upgrade, and had that plugin loaded months ago - it updated kodi, and a bunch of plugins but not that one.

                  Tried an update via "apt-get upgrade", and it didn't even suggest it (despite having the old v17 plugin in the plugins folder).
                  Did an explicit apt-get install as stated above, it didn't find the package in the default repos.

                  Kodi 18 worked fine, but no HTSP plugin (Kodi warned on startup about not having any TV sources, and blocked out the HTSP package as "not compatible with this version", and refused to do anything when I tried manual updates of the plugin directly from inside Kodi). After about an hour of messing about trying to roll that update back (including checking the apt history, reinstalling the previous version of all the relevant packages, etc.) I'd already in a side-window compiled the plugin, and copied it across.

                  Reinstalled Kodi 18 at that point, it picked up the self-compiled plugin, I've been watching recording and doing everything I would normally do on it, no problem at all. But someone might want to check what happens if you have Kodi 17 from packages with the HTSP plugin and then upgrade via RetroPie-Setup because all it did was leave you with an unusable v17 plugin and no way to get to the v18 plugin.

                  Not a big deal for me now (I'm a Slackware guy of old, and a C developer, so compiling something from even just a bunch of Makefiles and patches is nothing scary), but not sure how many other people are running Kodi v18 on a RetroPie via tvHeadend that might just break under the same circumstances (but given that tvHeadend is used in the instructions for getting the official DVB-T hat to work, someone might wanna check it).

                  Thanks for the help, but it was more of a heads-up for those less well-versed in how to fix such issues.

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                  • RascasR
                    Rascas @ledow
                    last edited by

                    @ledow I have upgraded a bunch of Pis already from Kodi 17.6 to 18, and all of them updated all the PVRs correctly (I had them all installed in 17.6), so I cannot reproduce your problem. I also tested the latest kodi-pvr-hts 4.4.12 and it is working fine.
                    Don't forget that to update the PVRs (and all binary addons that are not installed in RetroPie) you have to do a sudo apt-get update and a sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. Or update Raspbian packages via RetroPie-Setup.

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                      ashleywilliams @ashleywilliams
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                      Can anybody help me how to re-install Krypton? Re-install always brings the newest version. Thanks!

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                        Rascas @ashleywilliams
                        last edited by

                        @ashleywilliams Your problem looks like a network error. Does it play if you copy one of the videos to the sdcard?

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                          ashleywilliams @Rascas
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                          @Rascas Will try that! Thanks!
                          but have to mention, that all videos are on the same NAS and that some of them work and some don't. And it's always the same that work/don't work! And with Krypton everything worked fine.

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                            Rascas @ashleywilliams
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                            @ashleywilliams Try that and if it still doesn't work, try with a clean Kodi settings. For that, close Kodi, move the dir /home/pi/.kodi to somewhere else, start Kodi and try again.

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                              ashleywilliams @Rascas
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                              @Rascas Thanks. But I already tried clean settings. So that will sadly not work.

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                                ashleywilliams @Rascas
                                last edited by

                                @Rascas I've copied the .mkv to a SD card and yes it's working!
                                So we have the case that some .mkv aren't playable from NAS anymore and some are still playable. Some days ago on Krypton this was working so it must be something related to Leia.
                                Clean install Kodi Leia with brandew clean configs did not help.

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                                  Rascas @ashleywilliams
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                                  @ashleywilliams Then downgrade to see if it still works on Kodi 17.6. Downgrading Kodi is the same as downgrading any other package, you need to downgrade kodi and kodi-bin packages. Search the net on "how to downgrade package with apt".

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                                    ashleywilliams
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                                    @Rascas Thanks! I successfully downgraded and it's now working again. So no Leia for me, but that's okay.

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                                      Gwyllion @DeathWalk
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                                      @DeathWalk hi!!! I have the same problema with the final 18.0, did you solve this? thanks

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                                        Rascas @Gwyllion
                                        last edited by

                                        @Gwyllion Is that the OSD problem ? It was fixed in the firmware some time ago but the Raspberry Pi Foundation didn't updated the kernel/firmware in the repos since 4 November. One solution is to disable overscan_scale in /boot/config.txt, most people don't need it. Try it and see. Another solution is to use rpi-update to update the kernel/firmware, but that might break other things in RetroPie, so be carefull with this!
                                        I just sent an email to the Raspberry Pi Foundation engineers, lets see if they update it soon.

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                                          rodney465 @Rascas
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                                          @Rascas done everything and walla it works perfectly thx

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                                            Gwyllion
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                                            @Rascas nope, Kodi starts well, playing a movie well...but when you try to pause, stop or going to home menĂº. Black screen. Noise of moving keys are working but no image. I have to reset.

                                            here you have the log:

                                            LOG

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