Official LE11 Test Images for Amlogic (Kodi-20)

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I changed file extlinux.conf:

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LABEL LibreELEC
  LINUX /KERNEL
  FDT /meson-gxbb-odroidc2.dtb
  APPEND boot=/dev/mmcblk0p1 disk=/dev/mmcblk0p2 quiet systemd.debug_shell=ttyAML0 console=ttyAML0,115200n8 console=tty0

And get the same error where "/dev/mmcblk0p1" is written instead of "LABEL=LIBREELEC".

I can say with certainty that older the official nightly builds of LE10 worked on my C2 (the only thing that worked slowly was the KODI interface). And then in the last nightly official builds of LE10 I got this error. This error is apparently due to the fact that support has been added for booting from a USB flash drive. I have not tried to write to a USB flash drive your builds, but I tried to write a USB flash drive on the latest official night builds of LE10 - if a microsd card is inserted, which also contains the LE10 build and a flash drive, then Odroid C2 is loaded from the USB flash drive. I can try it on your build and I'm sure it will work. But I want to use only a microsd card.

I have another idea. But I think that it will not give anything. Install the official LE9 on the microsd card, run it to create a full size STORAGE. And then replace on it all the contents (files) of the LIBREELEC section from your LE10 build. Don't work, when you turn on the odroid C2, the blue LED is constantly on and nothing else.

Is it possible from your side to write step-by-step commands to start loading LE10 using the connected keyboard to the Odroid C2, when such an error appears?

I tried to write the microsd card via Creator LibreELEC USB-SD, balenaEtcher in windows 10. And even started opensuse in live mode and writing the microsd card via dd (I previously unpacked img from img.gz). And I still get the same error.

Could you do 2 things for me ?:

1. View the revision of the release on the board odroid c2.

2. Via Gparted, reduce section STORAGE on your microsd card (if you have a large microsd card) and make a full dump microsd card via dd and upload img dump to some file hosting (yandex, google disk or another).

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I've only successfully booted my Minix U1 using Samsung EVO sdcard, check attached image. The other sdcards just simply won't boot.

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Minor progress on a couple of things: ... In the background I also have the full vendor sources and schematics for Minix Neo U1 (S905) and U9-H (S912) devices. I plan to extract and post the boot fips so that mainline u-boot support is possible. I can also validate the device-trees which have previously been created with user support (U9-H is upstream, U1 still wip).

Is there any chance that upcoming changes will fix the analog audio output (jack)?

Unless these changes are already implemented?

I tested the image from 2021-Oct-18 04:03 and unfortunately the analog audio still does not work. I don't own a Minix device, but maybe this would have a chance to work globally for s912 devices?

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I using Samsung EVO sdcard

It doesn't matter to me

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Is there any chance that upcoming changes will fix the analog audio output (jack)?

Unless these changes are already implemented?

It's not something I've tested but AFAIK it should be possible to use it with the correct mixer settings. GXM devices use a common "toacodec" driver and everything needed in device-tree should be present and connected - not on the Minix boxes that have a different DAC chip. It may be something that needs work in alsa-ucm to make the process a bit more friendly. Once we get the current 44.1/48 issue resolved and merged I'll switch testing to a GXM box with an audio jack and see if it can be figured out.

NB: Until the audio channel mapping issues are figured out users can select the "HDMI" device as a pass-through device but should still select the "Analogue" output device as the main Kodi output. The Analogue PCM device alsa conf has some channel remapping to workaround the problem - the HDMI device does not support this.

how can i run on wetek hub?

I prepared an sd card from a file LibreELEC-AMLGX.arm-10.0.1-wetek-hub.img.gz but the device wont boot.

does not matter.... work with LibreELEC-AMLGX.arm-10.0.1-box.img.gz.

not working:

- dts hd

- atmos

- dd true hd

- little problems with jumping to the next scene

Quote from chewitt

NB: Until the audio channel mapping issues are figured out users can select the "HDMI" device as a pass-through device but should still select the "Analogue" output device as the main Kodi output. The Analogue PCM device alsa conf has some channel remapping to workaround the problem - the HDMI device does not support this.

I checked your latest image for Odroid C2. And it loads with the default file dtb.

There was also a sound when playing a video.

Found problem - HEVC files have no picture.

Thanks for your work chewitt.

Hi all

I m new biz

I used a new kiii pro and i install coreelec 9.2.8 with sdcard

And android 9 in emmc (slimbox 12)

After one day with the stock rom 7.1.2 no wifi and bluetooth ,,,i try many custom roms but it same problem (i try to use usb wifi dongle mediatek ,it ok under coreelec but not detect under slimbox and no dvb)

Finally im in this situation (coreelec and slimbox)

Many problem in this configuration

1-in power off the device restart (coreelec and slimbox)

2-with scan channel in tvhendend 4.3 many channel missing (nilesat and badr)

If there a buckup of channel is better

Thx all

Hello all,

I've just tested the latest image for ODROID C2. Thank you chewitt for maintaining libreelec for this card. I was waiting for this new image

All the features I need in Kodi are working well. The only issue is that my wireless keyboard (Rii K18 - RT518, RF 2.4 GHz) does not work. How can help you try to resolve this issue ?

Let me know if you need any information on feedback about this image. It would be a great pleasure to contribute to this project and test any features for you.

Thanks, Ingrid

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I used a new kiii pro and i install coreelec 9.2.8 with sdcard

And android 9 in emmc (slimbox 12)

You are not running LE then. CE has its own forum.

Hello all.....

need your help .....

My Box: MeCool BB2 Pro s-912 Octacore 3 GB

There is a LibreELEC Kodi19 version for this box....thanks

Hi,

chewitt thank you for your great work. Moved from CE to Libreelec on my minix u9. I am on LibreELEC-AMLGX.arm-10.80.0-box and this is very niece piece of software. Only issue for now is purple line on the bottom of video. Trying to find resolution on the forum but with no luck. Any idea?

Current K20 images from my webshare have no hardware decode (which is why H264/HEVC and seeking etc. work great). All 1080p media will probably work fine on GXM and newer boxes due to better CPUs but GXBB/GXL struggle a bit unless the bitrates are low. I'm attempting to use the same ffmpeg sources as Raspberry Pi due to the huge time/effort that the Pi devs have put into ffmpeg/v4l2_m2m, but the current sources have become a bit too Pi flavoured and we didn't figure out how to add quirks for Amlogic yet. There is also no progress with "the noise" on GXBB/GXL/GXM boxes so beware of Kodi audio setting changes, as that's an easy way to trip them (if making changes, keep the TV or AVR volume super low, and if you trip it, toggling settings will fix it).

The purple line needs something in the HDMI/DRM code to be poked, a register is off somewhere on not being set. I've no idea how to do that so can't really investigate - I've flagged it to the upstream maintainers though.

NB: I have no real plans to maintain K19 images going forwards so 10.0.x files will probably be deleted in the next week. I'll fork the branch on my GitHub LE repo in case anyone needs to build from them.

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MeCool BB2 Pro S912

Use the box image and experiment with the MeCool KIII Pro dtb, it's probably identical specs.

Sorry.....

will you give me the link to the box image?

Thx

Index of /testing/

chewitt

You were right about the analog audio output.I tried again with the mixer settings and was able to get the audio to work on the jack output. Thank you for your advice I have attached the commands below if anyone needs them:

amixer set 'PCM' 237 # no necessary
amixer set 'ACODEC' 238 unmute
amixer set 'AIU ACODEC SRC' 'I2S'
amixer set 'AIU ACODEC OUT EN' unmute

There remains a problem with the crackling that sometimes occurs, but that's another issue.

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NB: I have no real plans to maintain K19 images going forwards so 10.0.x files will probably be deleted in the next week. I'll fork the branch on my GitHub LE repo in case anyone needs to build from them.

Does this mean that there will be no more updates to LibreElec images with Kodi 19 for Amlogic?

This is bad news for me, as I was just about to switch from Coreelec 9.2 to using LibreElec on a daily basis.

Are you giving up building images completely or will there still be test images for Kodi 20?

Do you know if anyone else is building test images with Libreelec for Amlogic?

Thanks in advance for your reply.

It means I won't be publishing more LE10 images, as I moved my codebase forwards onto the master branch (K20 pre-alpha). See:

amlogic: bump to Linux 5.15.y and other misc. changes by chewitt · Pull Request #5920 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv

This bumps Amlogic (GX) to Linux 5.15.y with the following notable changes: Switch bootloader/install to use Makefiles in amlogic-boot-fip sources Move…

github.com

For the crackling audio, see if reducing volume on the mixer to ~80% helps. It seems to be a common remedy to similar reports on a large variety of cards (not specifically Amlogic). Thanks for sharing the mixer settings, I will validate and add to our soundconfig script.