For what its worth i ran
sudo mkdir /usr/share/man/man1
Then java installed fine from osmc store. I don’t use if for BluRays but installed jdownloader easily enough.
After the next update, that won’t be necessary with new installations and is fixed in:
Cheers
Sam
@sam_nazarko any ETA on that update?
I have a disc I want to check out: Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie 4K Blu-ray (Includes PG-13 & Unrated Versions)
If soon, I can wait, but if it’s going to be like a month then I might just grab what’s on the staging repository.
Still a few things to iron out yet.
Got the Dec update, installed Java from My OSMC, tried my Street Fighter II ISO and chose the launch BD menu option, selected which version of the film to watch and the I just get the sad face.
What would be the easiest title to confirm BD Menus with Java is working?
And has anyone tried the new SF II UHD release with BD menus?
The potentiality of this feature has me pretty excited considering the new Clue release coming from Shout!
Go to settings>player>videos>allow hardware acceleration> and click to disable it. Some titles don’t play correct or crash with hardware acceleration. You will want to turn that back on after your done watching your BD-J.
Additionally you may want to settings>system>input>peripherals>osmc rf remote> and change “osmc” to “osmc-br” and then click OK and restart Kodi to load the updated keymap.
Disabling hardware acceleration did help with menu playback but then the movie itself was a stuttering mess.
Maybe playback is fine for a standard Bluray but what I was testing was a UHD Bluray.
Oh well, looks like it may be a very limited option until improvements are made.
Hi
I have installed the OSMC December update.
But where can I find the download for Java JRE?
Sorry, but I can’t find the path and the download.
Who can help me please?
It’s in the App Store
Open the My OSMC add-on then click on the app store (the shopping cart), click on JRE, click install, then navigate to the left and click apply.
Thank you, the “shopping cart” was the solution.
I was always searching in the wrong place.
Many thanks
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I’m curious as to what the current state of play is with Java/blu ray menus. I’ve just had a go at watching An Education (in 1080p) via the blu ray menu on my Vero 4K+. The menu itself works very nicely, but the movie (as launched via the blu ray menu) is very stuttery. Played directly from the simplified menu, it works fine. I was slightly surprised by that, as I’ve got hardware acceleration turned on: it looks as though maybe it’s automatically disabling hardware acceleration in order to handle the menu correctly (which is good) but then failing to turn it back on again to actually play the movie (and of course the movie doesn’t play well with software decoding, so that’s not good).
Is this what you would expect to be happening at the moment?
Some logs, in case it’s not: https://paste.osmc.tv/ipufokorav
Yep – that’s why I was in no big rush to implement it.
And software decoding is completely unwatchable with UHD remuxes, even on the V.
So if they implement a way for it to disable hardware decoding to run the menus and then re-enable when asked to play the movie, that would be perfect.
I believe there was someone on here experimenting with mapping hardware acceleration to a remote button as a work around so it can be toggled on and off real quick with the press of a button.
I haven’t personally tried that out but it might be something worth looking into until it’s handled automatically if you want to watch a lot of titles that way.
I’ll be looking to test this soon to run through the large number of tests available on the Spears and Munsil UHD calibration disc (menu access is essential). Can the keymap be exported for using the OSMC remote with a non-OSMC Kodi device?
This keymap can be found in OSMC at…
/usr/share/kodi/system/keymaps/osmc-br/osmc_remote-br.xml
and the relevant changes are in the videomenu section. The file can be used on any system running Kodi by putting a copy of that file in its user keymaps folder. An OSMC remote in Win or LibreELEC should work with just the file. Other Linux system may need a udev remap to get it fully working or a tweak to the keymap to align the assignments to however the keys are mapping on that particular system.
The changes generically speaking I outlined and suggested over on the Kodi forum here…
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=360250&pid=3169968#pid3169968
many thanks, will try out in due course. Will this map the left, right, up, down and select buttons on the OSMC remote to the corresponding actions of my disc player’s remote, or do I need to do something different? I guess I just need basic menu navigation and ideally, something that mimics the Top Menu button on my Panny remote.
I’d need more information to answer that like what OS and how is that remote interfacing with Kodi (CEC, IR dongle, FLIRC USB, BT, etc.). Speaking generally for DVD’s Kodi keymaps to a window called “videomenu” for the menu and when it starts playing the actual content it maps to “fullscreenvideo” just like individual video files do. The BD-J menu’s seem to do their own translations between what button it receives and what it does with it as the actions are happening in Java and not in Kodi’s UI as near as I can tell. This complicates things as instead of having one mapping of controls for the menu and another for playback, there is only a single window you can map for and the tweaks you make for that are affecting playback of other types of media as the BD-J isn’t using its own unique window name. From a keymapping perspective it is far from ideal.
What I did was basically try things until I found the least bad solution on ballance. As this isn’t something I personally use outside of testing I’ve actually forgotten the details but IIRC there was an issue where it was not possible with keymapping alone to use the menu button for both DVD’s and BD-J as the actionid’s were different for the two. Given that the existing DVD controls were both pre-existing and in more common use the only solution that made sense to me was to trigger the BD-J menu from the back action (sense you start at the menu and tell it play something back seemed logical as you would be going “back” to the menu). The navigation shouldn’t be an issue as direction and select on BD-J use the same controls as everything else.
thanks, sounds promising that I might be able to achieve menu navigation for the Spears and Munsil disc. Will look at that when I get back. In addition to my Vero V’s I’m also running an OSMC remote with USB receiver on a CE Amlogic box, and that works perfectly of course for Kodi.
The calibration disc has allowed me to dial in improvements to my Panny OLED at rudimentary levels (brightness, sharpening, colour temperature) but to assess certain aspects of chroma performance I need to run the advanced patterns on the device of interest. That said, I can now get a sense of what some of the TV’s advanced settings are actually doing to the colour space for HDR content, and I can also see the relatively modest level at which the display is clipping highlights, but I guess OLEDs have got brighter since I bought it a few years ago.
Although I’ve never actually tested on CE I believe my keymaps should work as expected on that distro as long as your using an English keyboard layout. If something works different with the remote than it does in OSMC let me know and I can look into it.
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