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Questions tagged [openelec]

OpenELEC is the Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center. It's a small Linux distribution for playing media.

The site for it is http://openelec.tv/

The wiki is located at http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Main_Page

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Raspberry Pi won't Boot Just shows Black Screen

I have had my raspberry pi running as a media centre using openelec. It has run fine for a few weeks and suddenly it has just stopped working and will not function. The PWR light shows RED, FDX and LNK show green and the 10M shows orange but the OK…
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How do I stream movies to openELEC via LAN?

I want to streammovies from my PC to the Raspberry Pi where openELEC is installed on. It works just fine. It's installed correctly. But how do I stream movies from a pc to the device? So I won't have to use any external data-storage for the…
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OpenElec as DLNA Client

I've been googling around and trying for myself but I don't find a solution. I have OpenElec on my Raspberry Pi and in my home network there is a Synology Diskstation acting as a DLNA Server. I am using it with my Playstation 3 and my Philips TV as…
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CEC complaining without monitor

I've enabled debbuging in OpenELEC through SSH into my Raspberry Pi. I have no monitor connected and every time I check kodi.log I see that CEC is complaining about it. What can I do? 22:26:37 T:2954884160 ERROR: CecLogMessage - could not start…
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Raspberry Pi - Openelec - Buffering Issues

I have installed openelec on the Pi, and I'm using an external hardrive (western digital 1tb elements, ac powered). It automatically mounts on boot. It plays all my standard movies perfectly, but when it comes to my blueray and hd movies (over…
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What is the OpenELEC/XBMC equivalent of ctrl-alt-del?

OpenELEC freezes on me intermittently in the middle of video playback, likely because the video file itself is corrupt. What can I do to bring it out of its frozen state, and, e.g. back into the file explorer (or somewhere else equally sensible)?
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Is it normal Raspberry CPU load above 1?

Very frequently I happen to see CPU load and it's ~1.24, is it normal? I'm using OpenELEC and Kodi running slideshows all day 24/7.
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Wake PC on LAN from Raspberry Pi

I have been investigating. I want to wake-on-lan a PC I have on the same LAN as the Raspberry Pi. Wake on LAN doesn't work over the internet, so, I though to use the Raspberry Pi to wake up my PC. Using a binary would be fine. I have found some…
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Is the B+ model strong enough to play Vob files on OpenElec?

So I have installed OpenElec on my Raspberry Pi B+ and everything is working smoothly, except for playing DVD format files. When I press play on a video_ts.ifo it plays, but it plays shakey. The sound seems a-okay, but the visuals look laggy and…
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Change incoming downloads folder in OpenELEC

I am running Transmission v0.7.6 on OpenELEC v4.1.2 on my Raspberry Pi Model B. All downloads are first saved to my SD card and when complete are moved to my external hard drive. How do I change the incomplete downloads folder from my SD card to my…
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Open ELEC iplayer

I downloaded the iplayer zip file from https://github.com/joolswills/plugin.video.iplayer and when I unzip it on OpenELEC "Frodo" everything works, but when I try to look for videos it comes up saying "(no programmes available - try again later)"…
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OpenELEC on Raspberry Pi B+ hangs after reboot

I am trying to install OpenELEC v5.0 (Kodi) on my Raspberry Pi B+. Strangely, I get the startup screen with Pictures, Music etc options but the UI just freezes/hangs after every single reboot. I can SSH into the Pi properly and top doesn't reveal…
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mouse and keyboard automaticlly not working

Once I get to the questions, the mouse and keyboard do not work. What do I do??? We have tried taking out the power but that is not helping.
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Changing Raspberry Pi board

I recently bought new rasp board. I had about year old board and with sdcard running OpenElec Frodo version. I plugged that SD card in my new board and tried to boot up. I believe it should work as whole FS is on SD card. Am I making some…
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