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WanWizard

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#1602786 BackupSuite

Posted by WanWizard on 29 January 2024 - 19:00

I saw that too, but we have version 2.1.2 in the feed.




#1602770 BackupSuite

Posted by WanWizard on 29 January 2024 - 18:49

I think I saw something about a crashing nanddump binary, but I can't recall where...




#1600384 CI Module (Kabelio) and Openpli 9

Posted by WanWizard on 20 January 2024 - 16:04

Indeed.

 

You need to do both, use CI assigment to create a list of channels going throught the CI, and you need to block these channels from getting an Oscam response.

 

I had the same issues with an M7 CI, and this fixed it, it is now virtually stable.




#1599524 FENVI AXE5400

Posted by WanWizard on 15 January 2024 - 20:18

Build still has to start, so you have to wait until both the current build and the next build is finished.




#1599268 Zgemma H10 Combo issues.

Posted by WanWizard on 14 January 2024 - 18:50

Sorry, you misunderstood.

 

We have the source of the grab utility, we don't have the information about the hardware video system and the driver API of the box. So we don't know how to call the hardware to actually grab a 4K picture (if at all possible).

 

The code we have is because vendors released those in the past, but there are more boxes not or only partly supported, because we are lacking this information, and it is very difficult and time consuming to reverse engineer (if at all possible as that would require working code).




#1599188 SAT>IP Client does not parse vtuner.conf correctly?

Posted by WanWizard on 14 January 2024 - 17:31

OpenPLi 8.3 is een "end of sale" product, released on 18 september 2022, so before those fixes were made.

 

I suggest you upgrade to the current release version, 9.0.




#1598340 Channel list; sqlite3

Posted by WanWizard on 10 January 2024 - 18:34

All setting screens must be overhauled.

 

There has been an almost anal obsession in the past with reducing the number of screens as much as possible, with the result that there are 2 or 3 screens with many many settings, in most cases completely unrelated, all mixed up.

 

Compare that with for example a current ATV, which has much more logical setting screens, nicely grouped per feature or function. Yes, more screens and perhaps more key presses needed, but a lot more logical for the average user.




#1597700 GStreamer vs Exteplayer 3 for IPTV

Posted by WanWizard on 8 January 2024 - 22:39

No, it is the other way around, servicemp3 (ignore the legacy name) knows what the hardware supports (this is defined at compile time), and calls gstreamer for any formats not on the supported list.

 

Some boxes with a HiSilicon SoC (notably zgemma and mutant) don't use that, but have a servicehisilicon, which like exteplayer3 is a derivative of eplayer3, and which uses ffmpeg to recode instead of gstreamer.

 

As it is obvious where the problem is, it might be worth while to debug that, and do a gstreamer pipeline trace. Gstreamer pipelines are complex business, and we've lost the expert in our team a few years ago.

 

Ideally all this serviceapp stuff should not be needed, all media (streams of files) should be playable via the same solution, but there seems to be a tendency to work around issues instead of fixing them. And in case of exteplayer3, ego as well (didn't last, the project was soon abandoned).




#1597604 GStreamer vs Exteplayer 3 for IPTV

Posted by WanWizard on 8 January 2024 - 14:33

PS. This only applies to 4K IPTV. When tuning into a transponder with 4K channels, GStreamer is smooth as well.

 

Gstreamer doesn't come into play for DVB reception, that is all processed in hardware.

 

The only thing gstreamer (and ffmpeg via exteplayer3) does is convert media types not supported by the hardware so something the hardware does support.




#1597140 Does a plugin exist which on recordings can erase away the advertising?

Posted by WanWizard on 6 January 2024 - 18:35

As long as you don't cut "in place", the result will be a new file, and will not damage your recording.




#1597112 Does a plugin exist which on recordings can erase away the advertising?

Posted by WanWizard on 6 January 2024 - 16:48

It is installed by default. Select a recording in the movie list, and press the menu button. The Cutlist Editor is a menu option.

 

Using it you can navigate through the recording with the usual keys, and set a begin, end and start- and stop markers. When done you can start the cut in the background, which will cut everything before the start, after the end, and between a stop and the next start markers.

 

It is not very intuitive, so you need to play around with it a bit until you get the hang of it.




#1596848 Remote ssh/sftp Access to VU+ or Zgemma running Openpli

Posted by WanWizard on 5 January 2024 - 18:08

I would recommend not to open up the SSH port on the BOX to the whole world, but hide it behind VPN (have a VPN running on the router itself).

 

Obvously, but that is not related to the desire to want to use a key instead of a password. I have nothing exposed (and a real firewall with default deny all), but still use SSH keys everywhere.

 

I have been using RSA and ECDSA keys, but recently changed to ED25519 on my PC,

but have been unable to log in without a password (with key only) on my box running OpenPLi 8.3-release (2023-06-25-release-8.3) as well ...

 

8.3-release is no longer maintained, like all releases before it.

 

The current maintained release is 9.0, and it has no problem with my ED25519 SHA256 key...




#1595788 TSduck for armv7l

Posted by WanWizard on 3 January 2024 - 08:32

Everybody has to start somewhere, and we all were clueless at some point ;).




#1594712 3 HDD's missmatch

Posted by WanWizard on 30 December 2023 - 22:49

I find that a bit of an odd story, and a bit of the mark.

 

The limit here is the 32-bit block addressing which was until recently standard in ext4, and which has a 16TiB limit. This can be dealt with by using "-O 64bit" option when creating the filesystem, but for that you need a driver and toolset that is new enough.

 

The toolset is not the issue, it requires e2fsprogs v1.43 or newer, but we currently ship v1.46. So if you use a 20TB disk and you partition and format it in the box (which this guy didn't do), the 64bit flag will be added automatically.

 

The file system driver however is dependent on the kernel version, and some boxes run on ancient kernels...

 

You can check if your ext4 filesystem currently supports it using

tune2fs /dev/sdb1 -l | grep 64bit

Having said that, if you partition and format the disk on the box, we use the "bigalloc" option of ext4, which creates blocks of 256KB, and 2^32 blocks times 256KB gets you way beyond 16TiB.
 




#1594676 3 HDD's missmatch

Posted by WanWizard on 30 December 2023 - 20:01

They are not reported as one, they are both mounted on /media/usb.

 

It looks like you've ran into the problem that the udev mounter is not thread-safe, so two mounts running at the same time can decide to use the same mountpoint.

 

Easiest way to avoid that is to give (one of) them a seperate mountpoint using the e2label command:

e2label /dev/sdb m3

will mount it after a reboot on /media/m3