[Testing] Kodi 17.0 stable/final available for RetroPie!

beankid

Anyone noticed a slight lag with video playback? I'm on a RPi2 and the video seems a bit slow. I've checked the CPU usage and it's all really low so it's not a being slowed down by other processes. Could be that it's still in Beta..... Still nice to test this out as I can finally use my gamepad for Kodi.

PetroRie

@beankid said in [Testing] Kodi 17 beta 7 available for RetroPie:

Anyone noticed a slight lag with video playback? I'm on a RPi2 and the video seems a bit slow. I've checked the CPU usage and it's all really low so it's not a being slowed down by other processes. Could be that it's still in Beta..... Still nice to test this out as I can finally use my gamepad for Kodi.

I noticed that the menus are quite laggy sometimes.

Rascas

@beankid Video playback is just fine, no slowdowns whatsoever, but remember the Pi only has HW aceleration of mpeg-2 and VC-1 if you buy the licences. And only low bitrate h265 works fine.

@PetroRie Navigating trough menus can be a bit slower than a normal computer, that's normal. Didn't notice any diference here to previous versions.

beankid

@Rascas Turns out a simple settling of the install made things work themselves out, along with a reboot and it's back to normal. Not sure what was happening at the time but it's now smooth again. Gonna update to V. 17 on all my RPi machines now. thumbs up

Rascas

Kodi updated to 17 Release Candidate 1
ARMv6 version available (for first gen Pi's, 1, 0, etc)
Added all binary addons (PVRs, audiodecoders/encoders, visualizations, etc)

PS: Check first post for new installation instructions.

apoteker

@Rascas Has anyone been able to sucessfully upgrade to RC1? I keep getting a 404 error "file not found".

Sevik

Works fine on my rpi3. Upgraded from (new) kodi 16 installation (RetroPie-Setup) to beta7 and then to RC1 as instructed.

Thank you Rascas!

@apoteker : Where do you get this error?

apoteker

@Sevik I copied and pasted the above via PuTTY and got the following:
Err http://pipplware.pplware.pt Packages
404 Not Found
Ign http://pipplware.pplware.pt Translation-en_GB
Ign http://pipplware.pplware.pt Translation-en
Fetched 73.8 kB in 19s (3,699 B/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://pipplware.pplware.pt/pipplware/dists/unstable/armv7binary/Packages 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Rascas

@apoteker You have atleast one typo, a forward slash is missing between armv7 and binary. Make sure your list file is exactly like in the first post.

apoteker

@Rascas This is what I am pasting:

sudo su
echo "deb http://pipplware.pplware.pt/pipplware/dists/unstable/main/binary /" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pipplware_unstable_armv7.list
echo "deb http://pipplware.pplware.pt/pipplware/dists/unstable/armv7/binary /" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pipplware_unstable_armv7.list
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y
apt-get install kodi-peripheral-joystick kodi-inputstream-adaptive kodi-inputstream-rtmp
exit

It looks as if the forward slash is there. Does everything look correct here? Thanks for your help.

BuZz

@apoteker If posting logs/code to the forum please use a code block or else parts can be interpreted as styling

http://commonmark.org/help/

(edit your post and insert three backticks above and below the code). Also see https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first which details things like this and should be read before posting.

apoteker

@BuZz Apologies, thanks for the heads up!

Rascas

@apoteker said in [Testing] Kodi 17 Release Candidate 1 available for RetroPie!:

@Rascas This is what I am pasting:

sudo su
echo "deb http://pipplware.pplware.pt/pipplware/dists/unstable/main/binary /" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pipplware_unstable_armv7.list
echo "deb http://pipplware.pplware.pt/pipplware/dists/unstable/armv7/binary /" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pipplware_unstable_armv7.list
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y
apt-get install kodi-peripheral-joystick kodi-inputstream-adaptive kodi-inputstream-rtmp
exit

It looks as if the forward slash is there. Does everything look correct here? Thanks for your help.

That's correct, but that's not what you have in the errors in your previous message, so check it again.

apoteker

@Rascas Thanks for your time in looking at this. I just cut and paste and this error keeps occurring. I have copied the entire log and entered it at http://paste.ubuntu.com/23728135/ . I hope that is the proper procedure. I'm not sure why this keeps happening. Again, thanks in advance for any insight you can offer.

Rascas

Like I said before the error is because you have a missing forward slash. Probably not in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pipplware_unstable_armv7.list but probably in some other file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d, most likely from a previous wrong copy attempt. You have to check all files in that dir for yourself, and correct/remove what is wrong.
Anyway, Kodi 17 should already be installed/updated.

apoteker

@Rascas OK, I'll do that. Thanks for your help!

lostless

anyone else not able to get any controller recognized? When i try to configure, it acts like there is nothing plugged in.

Rascas

@lostless Did you follow the link in first post to configure your joystick ? Do you receive a message like the one in the screenshoot when you connect your joysticks ? What are the exact models that you are trying ?

lostless

I figured it out. Some how when it tried to install the driver, every time, it would ,abort the process. I just copied and pasted the line for the driver install and it's working now.

A Former User

But when kodi 17 is fully released it's going to be added to the default installation of kodi right?