[8.0.2e] LibreELEC 8.0 for S905/S905X

Quote from markrudling

Hello community

Im running a nextbox A95X and have a video quality question.

I have noticed a very slight quality drop on the same video when comparing playback between my laptop and media player(eliminating the file). The best way to explain the quality issue is a "masking" over semi static scenes. The effect looks like too much "photoshop smoothing" has been applied to peoples faces.

Its very subtle so you dont see it all the time, however disabling hardware acceleration seems to improve it.

Anyone with similar issues?
Cheers
Mark

Yes I have noticed that because I have owner of nexbox a95x this is only in libreelec 8.0 build only because of amlogic decoder bug...if u use spmc and enable amcodec acceleration in spmc.u will.also notice that this video masking.
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Quote from rajawaqas

Yes I have noticed that because I have owner of nexbox a95x this is only in libreelec 8.0 build only because of amlogic decoder bug...if u use spmc and enable amcodec acceleration in spmc.u will.also notice that this video masking.
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Cheers, thanks. I thought I was going mad. Software deciding seems to play fine so will leave it like that for now.

Quote from Hans Gruber

I'm still getting juddery playback on 60fps videos with these Krypton builds which playback totally fine on Jarvis. I'm watching a video now between the 2 builds which is actually 59.940fps and completely smooth on Jarvis and as soon as I flash to Krypton becomes really juddery. Could that be connected to the fractional frame rate issue? I can provide a sample video if needed but it's quite large and ripped from Youtube.

I tested your sample file with Jarvis .012g and you are right: there is almost no judder (perhaps a "hiccup" or two) and the picture seems more crisp.

I think I'll switch back to Jarvis...

Quote from blakey

Hmm, interesting. Have yout tried with other device tree?

I disconected the AVR from the setup, and it works fine now.. problem solved
(now the TV pass the sound to the AVR)

Thanks.

Quote from Crvsh3R

HDMI-CEC is working on android (M18 with Mbox name on the TV), but not with the latest LE builds. Can you send your LE settings for me?

I attached a screenshot of my CEC setting but I believe it's not the cause of your problem.

On my Toshiba TV, it was 'MBOX' in the past (many builds back) but it is now shown 'Kodi'. Also if you don't find it on your TV CEC settings, reboot of your Beelink M18 with your TV turned on should help. You need to let your TV recognize your Beelink M18.

As far as I know, there's been an update to the CEC code in the latest build.

Quote from ivan

Hi Guys,

I have a chinese MXQ Pro 4k.
On the SD card the LE is running without problems.
I can't install to the nand flash

Code

LibreELEC:~ # installtointernal
This script will erase BOOT, SYSTEM, DATA and DTB on your device
and install LE that you booted from SD card/USB drive.


It will create a backup of device tree and recovery partition on your boot media.


The script does not have any safeguards!


Type "yes" if you know what you are doing or anything else to exit: yes
Cannot parse config file '/etc/fw_env.config': Invalid argument
Error: environment not initialized
Backing up device tree...312+0 records in
312+0 records out
159744 bytes (156.0KB) copied, 0.005483 seconds, 27.8MB/s
done.
Backing up remote.conf...mount: mounting /dev/system on /tmp/system failed: No such file or directory
umount: can't unmount /tmp/system: Invalid argument
done.
Writing kernel image...118+1 records in
118+1 records out
7792640 bytes (7.4MB) copied, 0.037495 seconds, 198.2MB/s
done.
Formatting SYSTEM partition...The file /dev/system does not exist and no size was specified.
done.
Copying SYSTEM files...mount: mounting /dev/system on /tmp/system failed: No such file or directory
umount: can't unmount /tmp/system: Invalid argument
done.
Writing device tree image...0+1 records in
0+1 records out
159744 bytes (156.0KB) copied, 0.000631 seconds, 241.4MB/s
done.
Formatting DATA partition...The file /dev/data does not exist and no size was specified.
done.
Do you want to copy your user data to internal data partition? [Y/n] n
All done! You can now continue using your LE system or type "rebootfromnand" to reboot from internal memory.
WARNING: If your internal memory layout is different from standard Amlogic, you have to reboot and perform this operation again!

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What i have tried after that was to install "LibreELEC-S905.aarch64-7.0.2.006.zip" by using recovery boot.

Now i am stuck, my device won't boot to LE 7.0.2, the last visible console message: can't acces tty; job control turned off.
Booting to android recovery gives a lot of error's for al sorts of mount points
I am still able to boot from SD and run LE from there.

Can anyone help me to get LE running on the MXQ pro 4K? (S905)
The CPU is a Amlogic S905 A53
Thanks

dmesg | paste
cJeA

lsusb -vvv | paste
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what dtb did you use? Is your device a S905 or S905x? 1GB or 2GB? if it is a S905 and 1GB then did you try this dtb?

experimental

Quote from wkchick

I attached a screenshot of my CEC setting but I believe it's not the cause of your problem.

On my Toshiba TV, it was 'MBOX' in the past (many builds back) but it is now shown 'Kodi'. Also if you don't find it on your TV CEC settings, reboot of your Beelink M18 with your TV turned on should help. You need to let your TV recognize your Beelink M18.

As far as I know, there's been an update to the CEC code in the latest build.

Thanks! I tried everything, but sadly it's not working, only with earlier builds & under android.

Quote from Crvsh3R

Thanks! I tried everything, but sadly it's not working, only with earlier builds & under android.

Not sure kszaq include the following in his beta6 build, I found it on wrxtasy's Odroid C2 latest build description.
- @popcornmix's improved CEC adapter - user adjustable remote response times - backports from Kodi 18

The CEC Adapter version was bumped from v4.0.1 to v4.0.2 in beta6 though.

Hi

I am trying your 7.95.beta6 (2017-02-11), the audio on movies and TV series only plays Dolby Prologic.
I cannot get digital audio, in the previous beta the digital audio formats played ok. I have a Tronsmart S95 Vega Telos

Thanks for all you work!!

Henk Westra
Netherlands

kszaq sorry to bother you with this, I am trying to build beta6 from source and I get an error on peripheral.joystick

make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/http://peripheral.joystick.dir/build.make:711: CMakeFiles/http://peripheral.joystick.dir/src/storage/De…iguration.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:100: CMakeFiles/http://peripheral.joystick.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:128: all] Error 2

full log is here
LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-8.0-devel/peripheral.joystick-eeb6fec/src/ - Pastebin.com

past builds worked fine.

any idea what might be going on? thanks!

Quote from 62vette

Hi

I am trying your 7.95.beta6 (2017-02-11), the audio on movies and TV series only plays Dolby Prologic.
I cannot get digital audio, in the previous beta the digital audio formats played ok. I have a Tronsmart S95 Vega Telos

Thanks for all you work!!

Henk Westra
Netherlands

do you have 'sync playback to display' enabled?

Quote from 62vette

sorry wrong thread

kszaq, I modded your installtointernal in way to also backup/restore original android partitions.
This backups all android partitions as compressed image
in /storage/backup by type "ba" instead "yes" and restore them with:

installtointernal path/to/android/partition/backup

a bit raw, but it works.

Quote from cHarOn

what dtb did you use? Is your device a S905 or S905x? 1GB or 2GB? if it is a S905 and 1GB then did you try this dtb?

experimental

Thanks for this one, i tried this one before, but no USB or wifi with this DTB (ETH and remote working).
I was able to install to NAND, but when i power on, the screen remains black.
still able to boot on the SD card

Type "yes" if you know what you are doing or anything else to exit: yes
Backing up device tree...512+0 records in
512+0 records out
262144 bytes (256.0KB) copied, 4.304360 seconds, 59.5KB/s
done.
Backing up recovery partition...512+0 records in
512+0 records out
33554432 bytes (32.0MB) copied, 0.530442 seconds, 60.3MB/s
done.
Writing kernel image...118+1 records in
118+1 records out
7796736 bytes (7.4MB) copied, 1.008120 seconds, 7.4MB/s
done.
Formatting SYSTEM partition...done.
Copying SYSTEM files...done.
Writing device tree image...0+1 records in
0+1 records out
39375 bytes (38.5KB) copied, 0.162059 seconds, 237.3KB/s
done.
Formatting DATA partition...done.
Restoring remote.conf...done.

Quote from 62vette

Hi

I am trying your 7.95.beta6 (2017-02-11), the audio on movies and TV series only plays Dolby Prologic.
I cannot get digital audio, in the previous beta the digital audio formats played ok. I have a Tronsmart S95 Vega Telos

Thanks for all you work!!

Henk Westra
Netherlands

Sorry for wrong first answer.
Explanation is very simple. In previous version was all live streaming decoded to PCM. e.g. DD 5.1 -> 5.1 Multichannel PCM.
If you set in Setting -> Audio -> Channels: 2.0 and allow passthrough then 5.1 Multichannel is encoded to DD 5.1 to be able pass it to SPDIF. It looks like passthrough. But changing channel configuration 2.0 to another you get PCM Stereo.
New build has true passthrough independent on channel configuration. If you prefer old behavior you can set it by allowing 'Sync playback to display'".

Quote from logicheart

Hello...

I do not use Live TV, this is hapening with regular movies and tv shows i have saved in my NAS...

DTS is alright, AC3 is not...

As i said, with AC3, playback starts alright and after a few minutes interruptions are starting to come.

Hello...

I finally found the problem...

The issue was with the use of HDMI passthrough in Tanix TX5 Pro... I tested with Jarvis and Krypton and i had the same results... With Mini M8S II and Jarvis version this issue did not exist...

For some reason TX5 Pro needs to be connected directly with an optical cable from SPDIF and then everything is alright...

What puzzled me is that the issue was happening only with AC3 and that DTS was fine...

One more note, i had this issue some years ago with XBOX360, so most probably this is something with my amplifier...

Thank you all for your help...

Are you planning to work on SUSPEND?
Everything else works fine for me but booting takes quite a bit of time (slow SD in my case) so suspend would be awesome!
Bqeel M9CMax is what i am using