X99 TV BOX RK3399 Mali - T860MP4 4GB RAM + 32GB ROM

chiapa · August 6, 2018 at 7:52 PM

Hello.

I bought a X99 TV BOX RK3399 Mali - T860MP4 4GB RAM + 32GB ROM Android 7.1 HDR10 2.4G + 5G + AC WIFI BT4.1 X99 TV BOX - $134.81 Free Shipping|GearBest.com

Android OS absolutely nothing. KODI work on it poorly. h264 accelerators are not working.

And I need only KODI. I have an old RPi with LibreELEC. And I love he very much. I tried all four LibreELEC-RK3399 images on the X99. Works LibreELEC-RK3399.arm-9.0-nightly-20180806-7dc6d6b-rock960.img.gz. But the network card does not work. Is there a probability that the X99 will be fully functional?

Sorry for my english.

Aroosha · August 6, 2018 at 9:01 PM

Well you should ask this question from yourself before buying this device. Does this device support by libreelec? I think chewitt can clarify your situation.

**chewitt** · August 6, 2018 at 11:04 PM Official Post

RK3399 is a supportable but current team focus is on board devices not the legion of crappy Android boxes that can be found on gearbest. Use the right device tree and it should work though.

chiapa · August 7, 2018 at 8:48 AM

Thank you for your answer.

"Use the right device tree and it should work though." - Maybe you could explain more detail?

**chewitt** · August 7, 2018 at 12:04 PM Official Post

The device tree file describes the hardware of the box and how chips are internally connected and the Linux kernel uses this to bring up support for the hardware. The majority of Android boxes follow SoC reference designs so the core layout is common and quite predictable, and our kernel is deliberately generic enough that it should run on most RK3399 devices, but unless you boot with the correct device tree file we may not initialise the hardware correctly; i.e. the box may not boot, or it might boot but you end up with missing Ethernet or Wifi, etc.

chiapa · August 7, 2018 at 12:15 PM

Thank you.

npcomplete · August 7, 2018 at 1:37 PM

I've been testing LibreElec on X99 for over a month now. Initial work work was done by @tenfar (GitHub) along with led driver. I have made few changes to the device tree.

Everything works, except bitstreaming for DTS HD MA.

chiapa · August 7, 2018 at 2:54 PM

npcomplete, maybe you can show these changes?

Or maybe you've got a whole image?

npcomplete · August 7, 2018 at 3:23 PM

I've uploaded image here: MEGA

My code is still a mess. But some stuff I've checked-in here: GitHub - npcomplete13/Kwiboo-LibreELEC.tv: Just enough OS for KODI

[EDIT]

As I understand, there is no hardware acceleration for this SoC atm.

chiapa · August 7, 2018 at 3:32 PM

Thank you very much.

hardd · October 21, 2018 at 9:52 PM

npcomplete, Good day.

I have tested the LibreELEC-RK3399.aarch64-9.0-devel-20180825131312-198df11-skykirinx99 build. Thanks. Then I copy to mmcblk1p1 new KERNEL and SYSTEM. After that HW decoding begin to work. But spdif sound not work. No driver in kernel. Also, led indicator not work, beacause it needs the kernel driver and userspace binary.

Have you the source code of skykirin-ht1628 and its patch for kernel? Also, I need dts file of rk3399-skykirinx99.dtb for build new kernel with more drivers. Do you have it?

npcomplete · October 22, 2018 at 1:11 AM

Sure, let me upload the latest source to GitHub. I had to take down earlier one because it was longer compatible.

hardd · October 23, 2018 at 7:55 AM

Good day

Have you upload the latest source code to github?

npcomplete · October 23, 2018 at 3:22 PM

I've uploaded my source here: GitHub - npcomplete13/LibreELEC.tv: Just enough OS for KODI. Most of the important code comes from tenfar@github

hardd · October 28, 2018 at 1:56 PM

Big thanks!

hardd · November 3, 2018 at 6:07 PM

Good day.

Have anybody tested the libre-image on X99?

I have compiled alfa-version from git sources with changes from npcomplete rep. I tested it. Almost all videos works fine, but I have problem with sound rockchip-spdif passthrough. Sound skips fragments and also goes to hdmi sound with skips.

npcomplete, I added your driver to kernel and userspase binary. But time display not wirking. Netmon works. Time not shown, only "Load" string.

Update: When I have compiled aarch64, the led indicator works fine.

npcomplete · November 5, 2018 at 1:11 PM

Hdmi passthrough will not work on DTS HDMA or Dolby True HD as alsa plugin isn't in place for rockchip.

I've not tried spdif passthrough though.

I've not noticed any skips. I have a old Denon receiver.

hardd · November 5, 2018 at 3:51 PM

Good day dear kodi programmers.

After today update VP9 decode don't work. Send the log file?

But CEC function work fine today.

I tested with problem video files and attach log. Note, that in yesterday build those videos work fine.

log-2011-11-05.zip

Update 13.11.2018

I have update the rkmpp pakage to latest from git, and now vp9 is works.