As well as releasing today’s update with Kodi v18.5, I’ve added another 3D test build for those that are using this regularly.
This is the last build we will offer with a 3.14 based kernel as all major efforts are now focused on the 4.9 kernel.
Many thanks,
Sam
Do you think you will add in a beta option in any of the standard monthly updates? Or is it still quite a way off being released to the public for general use.
These effectively are the beta builds.
It will still be a while before this is officially released however.
Sam, after updating to november release and the new 3d build, should I also perform the “microcode update for the H264 decoder” again?
Thank you
No - this is not necessary
Sam
3D ISOs all seem to be playing in 2D in the latest build.
Logs: https://paste.osmc.tv/esolorupob
MKVs working fine. M2TSes seem to be okay too, although it takes rather a long time to switch to 3D mode - 6 or 7 seconds after playback starts instead of it being instantaneous.
Thanks – will look in to that. There are only two additional commits to the patch series for this build, so it should be fairly easy for us to identify the issues.
If it’s useful, I can provide links for the older builds.
Sam
I think I broke something … will have a look.
@sam_nazarko, if it becomes necessary, what do I need to do to revert back to the standard November release?
Also, are you hoping to have a 4.9 kernel build out in the next couple of months, or is it likely to be well into next year? (Or don’t you know yet?)
Will the move to 4.9 coincide with the Matrix release (Kodi 19) which I assume is still a long long way off, or do you mean you will update OSMC to 4.9 while still running Kodi 18.x? And does that imply moving to debian buster?
I’m trying to update my osmc to the November build. right now i still have July’s build along with the 9/14 3d beta. when i try to manually update, i’m told there are no updates available. i was planning on updating to the november osmc build and then do the most recent update for 3d. just not sure why there are no updates available from july, 2019.
Thank you for this new 3D test build!
I tried some 3D MKV Movies and everything seems to work as it should. (3D switch on the TV, PGS & SRT Subs, Frame Rate switch).
I have a problem now with 4K UHD Movies and PGS Subtitles: They appear on the left middle of the Picture. SRT Subs work fine. It was the same Problem on the last 3D Test Build, the normal osmc Version works fine.
That was a problem in the previous 3D build as well. From what Sam and Tanio99 are saying, it sounds like we’ll have to wait until after the mainline release moves to the v4.9 kernel before we get a 3D build that addresses that.
If you post a log we can take a look.
if you require logs (ie this is not behavior for which someone can answer without them), then i guess i’ll have to post logs. however, i was asked to post logs in a previous request for help and have yet to receive any help on that issue (over three months ago, with no hope that it will ever be worked on):
unfortunately to do logs requires time to sterilize them (for example they still include user ids and ip addresses). rather than just receiving a pat answer of “we need logs”, i just want to make sure that this isn’t normal behavior (ie i should be able to receive updates) and that someone here hasn’t seen this issue before and can help.
thank you.
Logs are generally a lot faster and simpler than playing a guessing game about what is going on. If you don’t want to provide them I would suggest looking at your source list (sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list) and see if you added something to it for test builds or something. You could also manually update from the terminal and look to see what is going on there (sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade).
As for you old issue that is a bug that @sam_nazarko is aware of and AFAIK is on the list of things to get fixed.
ok. thank you.
Actually the image shouldn’t necessarily be corrupted but rather overlayed with previous images. Solution is in the works.
thanks for reminding me about how to do this manually. that helped me find the problem and it is now fixed. interesting i had to add the following line to my sources.list:
deb http://apt.osmc.tv stretch-devel main
in the opening post of this thread it indicates to add this in order to do the microcode update, and then to remove this line. Without this line i was not receiving the november update, and with it i did receive the update.
just so you know. thank you.
Well could it be that you deleted or replaced the line deb http://apt.osmc.tv stretch main?
