I try to build my Rpi4 as a media center, mainly to access my NAS where i have all my photos and videos organized in folders and subfolders, by location and date, for each date i have all videos and photos taken on this day.
My NAS is a Synology able to show drives as NFS or many other protocols.
I have installe OSMC and have still some questions and issues.
First i don’t understand why we can add folders in many places, we can add foldres in Images, Videos, but also in File Manager, so why so many places, are they the same ? is there a right way to add folders ? maybe in File Manager only ? i have added them as NFS
Then i can see the videos in each subfolder but i cannot see the images, they are all RAW images from a Sony A7iii, so ARW format, i have installed the Libraw extension, so i can see their name sometimes but when i click on one images, PSMC seems to crash and restart.
This is so that Kodi knows what sort of files are in the folder and scrape the corresponding metadata from the web. Kodi will see only the videos in a video folder, music in a music folder, images in a pictures folder etc.
Ok, thanks, but my main issue is that i cannot see at all the images, the ARW images, each time i try to open one i get a crash of Kodi interface
I am now struggling to get a log, all logging is activated, but each time it recovers after the crash, the only log i can see is the one after restart…
If by ‘crash’ you mean you see a sad face on a blue screen, all the logs we would need are available if you upload them using MyOSMC after the restart.
You would need to upload the kodi.old.log as only they include the crash.
But as mentioned I doubt that the situation is changed and that Kodi still doesn’t support them.
yes they are supposed to be the old logs, containing the crashj
but as i see this very old post it seems like a lost fight …
but these ARW images are still supposed to be in the list of supported formats , strange…
maybe you could have some other solution for me, my goal is to be able to see them , images and videos, on my wide TC screen, nothing more, but when i use Plex i have a red dominant color, when i use Kodi i have acrash, so i am still trying to find a solution able to work… not found yet…
The simplest solution would probably be to make a copy of the images in another format since RAW is intended to allow for more options during editing, not to be a final image format for distribution. Even though RAW contains more information than a TIFF or JPEG you don’t actually see that extra information when viewing on a regular display and all your looking at is the result of the image viewer doing a live conversion, normally just applying the processing the camera recorded as what it thought was correct. Failing that plugging a PC directly into a TV is certainly a viable option. If you happen to have a TV and laptop that supports miracast that also works quite well.
Creating a copy of all my images would be a quite hard task… All folders are per day, with videos and raw inside, which means i should duplicate the whole set of folders, videos copied natively and raw converted to jpeg…
Also when i edit some images to improve them, i will have to do again a copy on the jpeg side… seems a bit crazy process, at least for me…
That’s why plugging a Rpi4 on my TV with HDMI seems a good option, but i should be able to play these raw…
Plex seems to be able to play, but i must have a remote control in order to have an easy management of images and videos, i mean not to be obliged to connect a keyboard and mouse on that rpi4…
KORE android app does the job very well but for Kodi…
Still have to find the same for Plex…
Or something other than Plex or Kodi able to play raw AND be remote controlled…
I would think that the use of something like Adobe Lightroom to automate such tasks would be prudent. I did grab a sample image just out of curiosity and I found that I could view it on Kodi on my PC but it did crash Kodi on my Vero. I tried it via Plex on OSMC via the PlexforKodi and Composite add-ons but neither could successfully load the image. The Plex app built into my LG smart TV displayed it okay but slightly saturated reds. It was actually pretty much the same when I just opened the image on my PC and cast my screen to the TV. BTW you can connect a remote to your PC. The direction buttons normally are the same as using the arrow keys on your keyboard and the select/enter/ok button on the remote is the same as the return/enter key. If you can control your viewer software with these keys then a simple remote should be plug and play on a PC.
With Kodi as client and Plex as server hosted directly on my NAS, i get the sad face in Kodi each time i want to open an ARW image.
If i use Plex as client, on my TV directly, then images are correct but videos are totally red saturated.
If i use Plex as client on the Rpi, (and i am not sure if i really use Plex as client… that’s unclear for me) then i don’t have a remote to be able to pilot it remotely without mouse and keyboard… but images and videos seems ok…
What i try to avoid is to stream iùmages and videos through the network to the Plex client inside the TV, in order to be “sure” of the quality i try to use an HDMI between the Pi4 and the TV. But is this really mandatory… With all tests i have done, there is no stable solution, or image / video quality not good, or crash sad face, etc…
If your going for maximum quality you should probably avoid Kodi altogether since I believe it can’t render still images larger than 1920x1080 even if connected to a higher resolution display.
No, i am not talking about ‘maximum’ quality, just quality. Plex Server streaming my videos to a Plex client on my Android TV gives red saturation on all videos, and Kodi is unable to play arw images…
Even 1920x1080 could be enough if i can find one solution able to play all correctly, and enough easy to use without needing keyboard and mouse to control it.
I thought this was easy via media centers, but not so…
maybe i should convert all my images to jpeg… that seems the less complex way maybe… but not the easiest to manage
My camera offers the option of saving both RAW and jpeg at the same time. With that, at least you’ve got the camera manufacturer’s interpretation of the raw data.
