LibreELEC 9.0 / Kodi 18.X for Minix X8,X8H,X8H+

    Hello,

    I have a neo x8-ha few years without touching the rom of origin OTA (4.4.2) and after this time i decide to see how the alternative roms were and I did not find anything special,

    however I found this forum with the hypothesis of installing Libreelec and after the reading the first post i tried to install and nothing :(

    I hope I'm not doing something wrong:

    1 install LibreELEC.USB-SD.Creator.Win32 (in windows 10)

    2 places an SD

    3 install with Libreelec.usb the img LibreELEC-X8-X8H.arm-9.0-devel-20181005064202-197066a.img

    4 go to sd and rename "boot_autoscript" to "boot.scr"

    5 copy from device_trees minix_x8h_sdhc.dtb to root dir and remane to dtb.img

    6 put the sd to minix neo x8-h and boot up with the system with the switch for 5 -6 sec

    and

    always goes to recovery screen ......

    Do I have to do something before this procedure?

    Is there any step missing?

    with the minix forum down I do not know what else to do, so Any help :)

    Thanks

    Quote from datrh

    not needed

    if it's a really old Minix firmware, i would update the Minix to FW009 (latest one i think). a too old android firmware may give troubles

    you're not doing something wrong

    Ok thanks, Im gone try to get last firmware and udate and then do the procedure.

    Quote from datrh

    Minix quality/services is gone with Minix-Ken's departure.

    i would not recommend anymore to buy a Minix product....

    My po

    well, Sincerely if I can get libreelec runing well in the neo X8-h Im gone keep it but if not.... hello Raspbery Pie 3 :)

    PS: really thanks for the help

    Hi Datrh,

    do you think you can update your Lakka build to be compatible with this one? I'm really missing it now. I installed emulators directly on Kodi, but the lag between the remote press and the real action just makes games unplayable.

    I also tried retropi with a RPI3, but to be honest your build was a lot better.

    What I really would like was a version I could dual-boot (LE, LAKKA), but booting from SD and reading from internal would also be great.

    Also, sometimes, mostly when opening internet streams I get a black screen with audio. Then I just skip back and video starts normally... Are you guys experiencing the same?

    Thanks a lot!

    #1 and #2 updated

    Quote from bitmap

    Hi,

    in HDMI passthrough mode, i have no sound for video with 2.0 channels.

    Fixed : see post #1

    Quote from manru

    When playing DTS / AC3 video and pressing "o" key there is codecs summary

    In my case (Minix X8H) it says that audio channels have 8-bit depth while in Kodi running on Android it says 32 or 24 bits

    Is there any solution for this ? Am I doing something wrong ?

    Fixed

    Quote from datrh

    a few hours if you don't have a "file system full" :-/

    edit : need to make clean and rebuild :cry:, got some strange behaviours

    well... got problem with one package , need to figure out why.

    so meanwhile if you don't mind that the wifi will not be available you may use the x8-x8h img.

    just replace the dtb.img by the one from the X8HP LE-kodi 18 image.

    Hello everyone, this is my first mail in this forum.

    I have a minix x8-h and ROM Finless 1.0 Android 5.1. I run LE from the SD card and everything seems to work correctly (except static IP) until I do not restart (option in Kodi) - all settings disappear (not saved) and I have a clean Kodi again. Has anyone encountered a similar case? How can you upgrade Kodi Leia to beta 5 and then to the final version (when it will be available)?

    Regards.

    Edited once, last by porthos (November 13, 2018 at 4:06 PM).