OpenELEC Testbuilds

[cpswan]

When flashing my SD card with the latest build (OpenELEC-RPi.arm-devel-20120725022533-r11649.tar.bz2) and all seems fine until i try and boot it in my RPi. I get the following error:

*** Error in prepare_sysroot: mount-common: could not mount /flash/SYSTEM ***
[ 19.401619] System halted.

Any ideas?

From time to time the bootloader changes, have a go at copying over the contents of the 3rd party directory in the tarball to the root of your SD card.

[frollic]

I managed to get 8192cu working.
I have Edimax EW-7811Un which is also using 8192cu driver.

Here's how I did it:
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I don't know why, but WPA is not working - I'm getting disconnected right after the authentication, so for now I'm using only WEP. I've tried this on debian as well, with same results.
I suspect there will be some incopatibility problem between wpa_supplicant and the driver because i see some ioctl operation not permitted errors...

Milo81,

I followed your guide on how to get the 8192cu running (I got an Edup EP-9503 connected to my Pi), works perfectly!

I also had issues with running WEP2, but the problem appears to be related to connmand and wpa_supplicant, and not the driver (I did however grab a newer driver release from Realtek - RTL8188C_8192C_USB_linux_v3.4.3_4369.20120622).
Seems connmand doesn't honor the wlan0 settings made in the OpenELEC addon.

What I ended doing was:

creating my own wpa_supplicant.conf

disabled wpa_supplicants Dbus control interface, and pointed it towards the conf file in the in the
fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.service file in /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services

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Exec=/usr/bin/wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

I also created an autostart.sh in /storage/.config
It contains the ifconfig settings needed to set up the IP and netmask + route for setting the default gateway (all this is usually provided by the DHCP server).

If you need internet access, you may also want to update the resolv.conf file (also provided by DHCP).

the resolv.conf is read only in /etc, so I replaced it with a softlink

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ln -s /storage/.config/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf

I did the same for the wpa_supplicant.conf file, to be able to change the WIFI auth settings.

If needed, I can get back with futher info on how to do this.

[mathewjenkinson]

HI all,
I have a bit of an odd one here.
when I download a pre compiled image from Sparky DE or any of the other hosts - thank you BTW
The system loads and works perfectly apart from network issues.
1st it takes ages to get an IP address and then resolve itself on the network before loading the RSS Feeds. Loading AFP and SMB shares over the network takes ages, so streaming an 8gb movie from my AFP share isnt possible.

Yet, when I download the Raspbian image apt-get samba and nettalk and mount my SMB and AFP shares before I download and install Openelec as an application the network shares run as expected.

Is there anything I can look at on the precompiled image to help me solve these network issues?

I use IP address's not DNS names on my local network so that the PI doesn't have to resolve any names. eg: AFP://10.0.0.25/mathew/ or SMB://10.0.0.26/julie/

Thanks
Mathew

[tbar]

HI all,
The system loads and works perfectly apart from network issues.
1st it takes ages to get an IP address and then resolve itself on the network before loading the RSS Feeds. Loading AFP and SMB shares over the network takes ages, so streaming an 8gb movie from my AFP share isnt possible.

Yet, when I download the Raspbian image apt-get samba and nettalk and mount my SMB and AFP shares before I download and install Openelec as an application the network shares run as expected.

Is there anything I can look at on the precompiled image to help me solve these network issues?

I seem to recall that I had a similar experience when I first tried OpenELEC on x86 some years ago. Unfortunately I cannot remember any details but try searching the openelec forum at openelec.tv/forum.

[CocodaMonkey]

I just updated to 11659 and menu sounds dont' work for me anymore either. Exact same issue as goujam mentioned a couple days back. Videos still play properly and with sound but it appears menu sounds over HDMI aren't working anymore.

[MothBox]

I've streamed through this thread and can only find the question being asked, not the answer... I'm loading the img files from http://openelec.thestateofme.com/, I'm not anywhere near the level of expertise to start building this myself, I'm starting with some basic tweaks for now.

I can't locate a config.txt file in the img, and putting one on afterwards causes the system to fail to load.

What am I missing?

[LazurWulf]

HI all,
I have a bit of an odd one here.
when I download a pre compiled image from Sparky DE or any of the other hosts - thank you BTW
The system loads and works perfectly apart from network issues.
1st it takes ages to get an IP address and then resolve itself on the network before loading the RSS Feeds. Loading AFP and SMB shares over the network takes ages, so streaming an 8gb movie from my AFP share isnt possible.

Yet, when I download the Raspbian image apt-get samba and nettalk and mount my SMB and AFP shares before I download and install Openelec as an application the network shares run as expected.

Is there anything I can look at on the precompiled image to help me solve these network issues?

I use IP address's not DNS names on my local network so that the PI doesn't have to resolve any names. eg: AFP://10.0.0.25/mathew/ or SMB://10.0.0.26/julie/

Thanks
Mathew

I am having the same exact problem. I've tried two different pre-builts.

First it takes maybe 10 minutes for it to get on the network, even if I assign a static IP.
Then once on the network it can't connect to any of my windows shares. I have all my media on my Netgear R6300 ReadyShare USB drive. Raspbmc can see the shares and load the media, but it doesn’t play. That’s why I switched to OpenElec. The UI and everything else (remotes, etc.) work great in OpenElec, but the network issues make it non-function for me.

Any ideas? Thank you!

[sraue]

Hi,

Another short update (r11691):

http://sources.openelec.tv/tmp/image/op ... 91.tar.bz2
to update a older build without reinstalling see: http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title ... g_OpenELEC

• updated XBMC many thanks to 'gimli'
• added Pulse-Eight libCEC support, this replaces the temporary rpi-cecd support. many thanks to 'opdenkamp' and various broadcom guys
• Kernel linux 3.2.24 many thanks to 'bootc'
• various other improvenments and fixes

It is needed to update the bootloaderfiles which you can find in the build in the folder 3rdparty/bootloader. This you can update locally via Windows/Linux or via ssh:

• login via ssh to your Raspi:

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  ssh root@<ipaddress>

• remount /flash r/w:

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  mount -o remount,rw /flash

• from your linux system copy the files via ssh/scp to the Raspi:

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  scp 3rdparty/bootloader/* root@<ipaddress>:/flash

please test this build, the CEC function with various TV's and XBMC in general and report back.

thanks
Stephan

[milhouse]

Another short update (r11691):

Thumbnail performance is great with this build, and no obvious OMX errors!

However there are still intermittent NFS issues when playing media (movies), and and when accessing thumbnails/fanart:

First, these errors appeared while browsing Movies in Thumbnails view - presumably the fan art wasn't t cached. I can confirm the fan art file does exist, is accessible and did display correctly when browsing:

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21:52:37 T:1361978464   ERROR: NFS: Failed to stat(/mnt/share/media/Video/Movies HD/Classics/Dr Strangelove (1964)[BDRip]-fanart.jpg) stat call failed with "NFS: Lookup of //media failed with NFS3ERR_NOENT(-2)"
21:52:44 T:1361978464   ERROR: NFS: Failed to stat(/mnt/share/media/Video/Movies HD/Classics/Dr Strangelove (1964)[BDRip]-fanart.jpg) stat call failed with "NFS: Lookup of //media failed with NFS3ERR_NOTDIR(-20)"
21:52:44 T:1361978464   ERROR: COMXImage::ReadFile nfs://192.168.0.3//mnt/share/media/Video/Movies HD/Classics/Dr Strangelove (1964)[BDRip]-fanart.jpg not found

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>>> Trying to play Drive (1080p/h.264, DTS)... Failed.

21:54:59 T:1103151888  NOTICE: COMXPlayer: Opening: nfs://192.168.0.3//mnt/share/media/Video/Movies HD/Drive (2011)[BDRip].mkv
21:54:59 T:1103151888 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
21:54:59 T:1209955424  NOTICE: Thread COMXPlayer start, auto delete: false
21:54:59 T:1209955424  NOTICE: OMXClock using video as reference
21:54:59 T:1209955424  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
21:54:59 T:1209955424   ERROR: NFS: Failed to stat(/mnt/share/media/Video/Movies HD/Drive (2011)[BDRip].mkv) stat call failed with "NFS: Lookup of //media failed with NFS3ERR_NOTDIR(-20)"
21:54:59 T:1209955424   ERROR: COMXPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [nfs://192.168.0.3//mnt/share/media/Video/Movies HD/Drive (2011)[BDRip].mkv]
21:54:59 T:1209955424  NOTICE: COMXPlayer::OnExit()
21:54:59 T:1209955424  NOTICE: COMXPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
21:55:00 T:1103151888   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [nfs://192.168.0.3//mnt/share/media/Video/Movies HD/Drive (2011)[BDRip].mkv]
21:55:00 T:1209955424  NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
21:55:00 T:1103151888 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
21:55:37 T:1361978464  NOTICE: Thread Jobworker start, auto delete: true
21:55:45 T:1103151888  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.

>>> Trying to play Dune (720p/h.264, DTS)... Failed.

21:55:45 T:1103151888  NOTICE: COMXPlayer: Opening: nfs://192.168.0.3//mnt/share/media/Video/Movies HD/Dune (1984)[BDRip].mkv
21:55:45 T:1103151888 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
21:55:45 T:1226732640  NOTICE: Thread COMXPlayer start, auto delete: false
21:55:45 T:1226732640  NOTICE: OMXClock using video as reference
21:55:45 T:1226732640  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
21:55:47 T:1226732640  NOTICE: OMXClock using video as reference
21:55:47 T:1226732640   ERROR: COMXCoreComponent::SetConfig - OMX.broadcom.clock failed with omx_err(0x80001005)
21:55:47 T:1226732640   ERROR: OMXClock::OMXReset error setting OMX_IndexConfigTimeClockState
21:55:47 T:1226732640  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
21:55:50 T:1226732640 WARNING: could not find codec parameters for nfs://192.168.0.3//mnt/share/media/Video/Movies HD/Dune (1984)[BDRip].mkv
21:55:50 T:1226732640   ERROR: OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
21:55:50 T:1226732640  NOTICE: COMXPlayer::OnExit()
21:55:50 T:1226732640  NOTICE: COMXPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
21:55:50 T:1103151888   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [nfs://192.168.0.3//mnt/share/media/Video/Movies HD/Dune (1984)[BDRip].mkv]
21:55:50 T:1103151888 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
21:55:54 T:1226732640  NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false

>>> Then, trying to play Drive a second time (no reboot or any other changes since the first attempt) and...Success!

21:56:45 T:1103151888  NOTICE: COMXPlayer: Opening: nfs://192.168.0.3//mnt/share/media/Video/Movies HD/Drive (2011)[BDRip].mkv
21:56:45 T:1103151888 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
21:56:45 T:1226732640  NOTICE: Thread COMXPlayer start, auto delete: false
21:56:45 T:1226732640  NOTICE: OMXClock using video as reference
21:56:45 T:1226732640  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
21:56:47 T:1226732640  NOTICE: OMXClock using video as reference
21:56:47 T:1226732640   ERROR: COMXCoreComponent::SetConfig - OMX.broadcom.clock failed with omx_err(0x80001005)
21:56:47 T:1226732640   ERROR: OMXClock::OMXReset error setting OMX_IndexConfigTimeClockState
21:56:47 T:1226732640  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
21:56:55 T:1226732640  NOTICE: Opening video stream: 0 source: 256
21:56:55 T:1226732640  NOTICE: OMXClock using video as reference
21:56:55 T:1226732640  NOTICE: Creating video thread
21:56:55 T:1209955424  NOTICE: Thread COMXPlayerVideo start, auto delete: false
21:56:55 T:1226732640  NOTICE: Opening audio stream: 1 source: 256
21:56:56 T:1226732640  NOTICE: Creating audio thread
21:56:56 T:1324348512  NOTICE: Thread COMXPlayerAudio start, auto delete: false
21:56:56 T:1226732640  NOTICE: Opening Subtitle stream: 2 source: 256
21:56:56 T:1226732640  NOTICE: OMXClock using video as reference
21:56:56 T:1209955424  NOTICE: Display resolution DESKTOP : 1920x1080 @ 60.00 - Full Screen (16)
21:56:56 T:1324348512  NOTICE: OMXClock using video as reference
21:56:56 T:1324348512  NOTICE: OMXClock using audio as reference
21:56:56 T:1103151888  NOTICE: Using GL_TEXTURE_2D
21:56:56 T:1103151888  NOTICE: GL: Using BYPASS render method
21:56:56 T:1103151888  NOTICE: GL: NPOT texture support detected

192.168.0.3 is a FreeNAS 8.0.2 NAS.

I was also able to watch Dune at the second attempt.

Finally, MKVs with embedded subtitles (that are not forced OR default) are being shown by default - I'm assuming this is an XBMC issue?

[IvanG]

I just tried r11691, beside still missing menu navigation sounds, CEC /tv remote seem to work but shortly
I noticed while booting on TV in input selection menu I see rasperry_li for regza-link name (not sure what was before, but when XBMC comes up name switches to XBMC.
While in menus remote seems to work, some behave differently than they did before (remote has slide thingie that has couple extra buttons for controlling cec devices) i.e. power button started to work, set up button brings me to main menu, previously it opened context menu.
I think some more buttons behave differently but most important ones work ok it seems, but only until I start playing movie it just stops reacting to remote, and from TV in input selection menu regza-link disappears for rp's hdmi input until I reboot.

[dom]

but only until I start playing movie it just stops reacting to remote, and from TV in input selection menu regza-link disappears for rp's hdmi input until I reboot.

Yes, changing hdmi mode does stop CEC working. Disable "sync display to video frame rate" and it will continue working. It's being investigated.

[dom]

>>> Trying to play Dune (720p/h.264, DTS)... Failed.
...
I was also able to watch Dune at the second attempt.

Do your hard disks auto spin down? Do the errors occur after the first access after a spin down?

[milhouse]

>>> Trying to play Dune (720p/h.264, DTS)... Failed.
...
I was also able to watch Dune at the second attempt.

Do your hard disks auto spin down? Do the errors occur after the first access after a spin down?

Hi Dom. There is no spin down as my Thunderbird email client keeps them active long enough to prevent inactivity. Also, the scan errors (fanart for Dr. Strangelove) preceded the attempt to play Dune, so should have activated the disks if they were spun down but this NFS query failed completely. Essentially it seems that libNFS is loaded dynamically, and sometimes it simply fails to work correctly leading to these bogus errors.

These NFS issues only surfaced following the upgrade to libNFS 1.3 - prior to that, there were no NFS problems.

Addendum to the fanart related NFS error: When seeking the fanart for Dr Stangelove (and failing to find it due to NFS related errors) XBMC/OpenELEC proceeded to cache the fanart for The Godfather against Dr Strangelove... my mistake for believing it had cached the correct imagery. The Godfather had been cached successfully several days ago (with 11698 I have updated only the binaries, and not reimaged my SD card, video metadata is stored in a MySQL db with Thumbnails/Texture*.db on the SD card).

[IvanG]

but only until I start playing movie it just stops reacting to remote, and from TV in input selection menu regza-link disappears for rp's hdmi input until I reboot.

Yes, changing hdmi mode does stop CEC working. Disable "sync display to video frame rate" and it will continue working. It's being investigated.

yep, that fixed it.

[cpswan]

There are 900M SD card images (intended to fit onto any SD card with a nominal capacity >1G) on thestateofme build server too - it's just that there are so many release bundles there now that you have to scroll down a bit to see them. In retrospect I should have created subdirectories for release bundles and images, but since I've set up a notification mousetrap to let me know when new stuff arrives (and others might have too) I'm not too keen on changing things now.

I found that it's possible to get a date ordered display of the new images and release bundles hosted on my build box (it's one of those things that's obvious once you see how).

[patrick6325]

I've tried both the build from July 29th (r11691) and the build from july 31st (r11698), and with both builds the bootloader files don't give me composite output. HDMI works, composite doesn't.

I see the colored test screen, then the OpenElec logo as I would expect, but when XBMC should come up, the output is gone and my (old) TV switches to the no-signal screen (blue screen).

When I copy the bootloader files from my previous version (I believe it was from July 4th), it works again and I have output on composite again.

[Penetratore]

why is the openelec buit for RPI so big (image 910MB) and the compilation for ION buit is less the 100MB ?

[sraue]

why is the openelec buit for RPI so big (image 910MB) and the compilation for ION buit is less the 100MB ?

where you get this big build? if you build byself be sure you *dont* have set a env variable "DEBUG=yes"

[cpswan]

why is the openelec buit for RPI so big (image 910MB) and the compilation for ION buit is less the 100MB ?

I chose 910MB so that the image would fit onto 1GB SD cards (and larger). Most of it is slack space that can be used in the storage partition, the actual binaries would easily fit inside 100MB.

[tbar]

I got sdtv_mode=2 (=PAL) in config.txt and the splash screens are shown perfectly during boot. When xbmc starts the image gets distorted and it looks sorta like NTSC. Can this be right? Is there any way to configure xbmc to output PAL? Obviously it has to be configured through SSH...

I've seen the above using r11591 and r11692.

[caz32]

I just installed OpenELEC 11707 from here

http://openelec.thestateofme.com/

I have internet access on the Pi, but when I go to browse addons, the list is empty? anyone know why or how to fix this?

[tbar]

HI all,
The system loads and works perfectly apart from network issues.
1st it takes ages to get an IP address and then resolve itself on the network before loading the RSS Feeds. Loading AFP and SMB shares over the network takes ages, so streaming an 8gb movie from my AFP share isnt possible.

Yet, when I download the Raspbian image apt-get samba and nettalk and mount my SMB and AFP shares before I download and install Openelec as an application the network shares run as expected.

Is there anything I can look at on the precompiled image to help me solve these network issues?

I seem to recall that I had a similar experience when I first tried OpenELEC on x86 some years ago. Unfortunately I cannot remember any details but try searching the openelec forum at openelec.tv/forum.

This post describes a similar issue: http://openelec.tv/forum/69-network/272 ... connection
There is no resolution but it seems to be because a wrong driver is used. I suggest you open a new topic at openelec.tv/forum.

[Goofy]

Hi,
Another short update (r11691):

Testing the 11691 build, I still get xbmc freeze while playing mp3 and running a picture slideshow on top of it. However compared to previous builds, it takes quite longer and attached example took about 40mins. Previously the same music and pictures freeze in a few minutes. Usually the music stops playing and current picture effect is running in a loop without moving to next picture.

All EXIF options are turned off. Also during the slideshow, some pictures are randomly blurred, it doesn't depend on the picture itself and different pictures are blurred on the subsequent runs.

Killing xbmc process spawn another instance and everything works again for a while...

http://sprunge.us/iPDI

[Goofy]

One more freeze while playing video file. Some of the previous builds just hang, the 11691 usually freeze for some time and than returns back to the xbmc gui (in the attached log it seems that the new instance was executed automatically).

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20:52:32 T:1296450656    INFO: ffmpeg[4D464460]: Input #0, avi, from '/storage/videos/pohadky/Krtek 1.avi':
20:52:32 T:1296450656    INFO: ffmpeg[4D464460]:   Duration: 01:13:35.56, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1236 kb/s
20:52:32 T:1296450656    INFO: ffmpeg[4D464460]:     Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (Simple Profile) (xvid / 0x64697678), yuv420p, 480x360 [SAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
20:52:32 T:1296450656    INFO: ffmpeg[4D464460]:     Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3 (U[0][0][0] / 0x0055), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb/s

20:54:54 T:1315427424 WARNING: CRenderManager::FlipPage - timeout waiting for flip to complete
20:55:19 T:1323816032   DEBUG: OMXClock::OMXAudioBufferStart
20:55:48 T:1296450656  NOTICE: Opening audio stream: 1 source: 256

http://sprunge.us/EFXO

[Penetratore]

hello .. i`m a freshmen and got my RP since 2 days. I bought it to replace my old ION based HTPC
After arrival I`ve installed Open elec beacuse of it CEC support and tested on MY Samsung D6750 Smart TV

Here are my observations about fresh installs

BUILD r11698.img

+ fast UI
+ no chattering at <700MB videos
+ good video quality

- no HDD drive/ USB stick detection
- CEC looses connection after some minutes (only restat helps)
- chattering at 1080p (avatar 10GB) and 720p- every 4-5second
- very long FF
- video image instable

BUILD r11708.img

+ slower UI than build r11698 (still acceptable)
+ no chattering at <700MB videos
+ good video quality
+ HDD drive/ USB stick detection


- CEC looses connection (only restat helps) worse than build r11698
- chattering at 1080p (avatar 10GB) and 720p - every 4-5second
- very long FF
- video image instable

is there a special setup to get rid of chattering?