Official LE11 Test Images for Amlogic (Kodi-20)

**chewitt** · December 20, 2022 at 10:19 AM

Quote from ekerose

No, it is old, the one I already had on my PC: Release 0.73.

Please update it to something current and try again..

Orski · December 20, 2022 at 1:44 PM

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An S905 can almost handle 1080p HEVC in software so MPEG2 at 720p/1080i should be do-able. It would still be nicer to have proper hardware decoding.. but that needs someone to take an interest in the vdec code. MPEG2 isn't a complex driver, and it's likely broken due to a few small changes due to general V4L2 evolution since it was first written, but we're approaching three years since someone last seriously looked at the code and it appears nobody (who can code) cares enough to look.

Shouldn't an S905 handle HEVC completely in HW, I've finally finished setting up my Odroid C2 with the profiles and libraries and now when I went to test playback some stuff played perfectly with seeking and everything, some didn't play at all and some were stuttery. As far as I know my Odroid should handle HEVC at 4K/30 HW, at least that's what it says on the manual, so why am I getting these issues?

**chewitt** · December 21, 2022 at 9:26 AM

Quote from Orski

Shouldn't an S905 handle HEVC completely in HW, I've finally finished setting up my Odroid C2 with the profiles and libraries and now when I went to test playback some stuff played perfectly with seeking and everything, some didn't play at all and some were stuttery. As far as I know my Odroid should handle HEVC at 4K/30 HW, at least that's what it says on the manual, so why am I getting these issues?

The point being made was that MPEG2 media can be (or could be, if we disabled the broken MPEG2 hardware decoder) be decoded in SW.

S905 does indeed have hardware HEVC decoding capabilities, but with some bugs (seeking is one of them) that remain unresolved pending the attentions of someone with coding skills taking an interest in fixing them (so not me). The H264 hardware decoder is generally in a much better state, and everything else (apart from MPEG1/2) .. e.g. MPEG4 is software decoded.

The vendor kernel still runs best on Amlogic hardware, but that's outside the scope of this thread or upstream kernel images.

Orski · December 21, 2022 at 12:16 PM

Quote from chewitt

S905 does indeed have hardware HEVC decoding capabilities, but with some bugs (seeking is one of them) that remain unresolved pending the attentions of someone with coding skills taking an interest in fixing them (so not me). The H264 hardware decoder is generally in a much better state, and everything else (apart from MPEG1/2) .. e.g. MPEG4 is software decoded.

So for the time being HEVC playback going to be bad :')

I tried SW but i ran with the issue of audio sync, the video plays, not the best playback but good enough and the audio is out of sync. Still some files refused to play and would crash the system. I guess I should keep transcoding from the server until HEVC decoding capabilities are implemented. I don't have the coding skills but I can try to do something, if you have any idea where I can start that will be great.

Thank you again for your support, it really is a great project.

_emanuel_ · December 21, 2022 at 6:00 PM

@chewitt: You recently gave me a test image that unfortunately didn't boot. It had a linux 6.1 kernel.

Did you fix that with the nand on some boxes?

If so, could you build the box img for me?

Would be interesting if wifi works there.

It works with my dtb in le-nightly (6.0.9) but not in armbian-current (6.0.14) or in armbian-etch (6.1).

(brcmfmac debug log attached)

>>> found the patch armbian bug, now wifi works on 6.0/6.1.1

_emanuel_ · December 22, 2022 at 8:49 AM

I've made a build from your github LE src (Branche "amlogic") 6.1-rc8 still do not boot on dreambox.

ekerose · December 22, 2022 at 10:23 AM

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Please update it to something current and try again..

Hi.

I have updated to the latest version of putty, 0.78, and it gives the same error.

_emanuel_ · January 4, 2023 at 1:47 PM

@chewitt: I just built a testimg from your github amlogic branch.

Unfortunately, kernel 6.1.0 does not boot like this.

The log in the attachment

_emanuel_ · January 4, 2023 at 2:51 PM

@chewitt: woks nice without:

amlogic-0022-FROMLIST-v6-dt-bindings-power-Add-G12A-NNA-power-dom.patch.aus

amlogic-0023-FROMLIST-v6-soc-amlogic-meson-pwrc-Add-NNA-power-dom.patch.aus

amlogic-0024-FROMLIST-v6-arm64-dts-Add-DT-node-for-the-VIPNano-QI.patch.aus

amlogic-0025-FROMLIST-v6-drm-etnaviv-Add-nn_core_count-to-chip-fe.patch.aus

amlogic-0026-FROMLIST-v6-drm-etnaviv-Warn-when-probing-on-NPUs.patch.aus

amlogic-0028-FROMLIST-v6-arm64-dts-Fix-NPU-power-domain-reference.patch.aus

amlogic-0052-WIP-arm64-dts-meson-add-support-for-the-NPU-on-Radxa.patch.aus

Wifi only works setting

LibreELEC.tv/amlogic-0088-WIP-arm64-dts-meson-add-initial-device-trees-for-Dre.patch at bb98dc6f00cc16e33796ac0dc4fc672281a7093f · chewitt/LibreELEC.tv

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Code

<&gpio GPIOA_11 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;

The log in the attachment

**chewitt** · January 4, 2023 at 3:23 PM

_emanuel_ I've rebased the branch with the SDIO change and this Fixup! patch https://github.com/chewitt/linux/…6757ed536b40b9d .. please see if that resolves the boot hang for you?

_emanuel_ · January 4, 2023 at 4:21 PM

@chewitt: now it works nice

one patch hung, but build boots.

Code

APPLY PATCH (device)      projects/Amlogic/devices/AMLGX/patches/linux/amlogic-0028-FROMLIST-v6-arm64-dts-Fix-NPU-power-domain-reference.patch
patching file arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-g12-common.dtsi
Hunk #2 succeeded at 2493 (offset 1 line).
patching file arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-g12b.dtsi
patching file arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-sm1.dtsi

The log in the attachment

_emanuel_ · January 4, 2023 at 10:57 PM

I've got shutdown problems.

see log

**chewitt** · January 5, 2023 at 6:40 AM

_emanuel_ We inherit "keep-power-in-suspend;" from the w400 dtsi SDIO node so I'm not sure what's wrong or missing there. I do note that you've told me the sdio-pwrseq node is "GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW" whereas the vendor dts shows "GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH" .. not sure if that's relevant.

Please also see if https://github.com/chewitt/linux/…e0c5cd69ba1c6f0 gives control over the red power LED, power button, and the Volume up/down/enter keys now?

_emanuel_ · January 7, 2023 at 12:46 AM

I had tested it like this before:

Code

gpio-keys-polled {
    compatible = "gpio-keys-polled";
    poll-interval = <100>;

    power-button {
        label = "power";
        linux,code = <KEY_POWER>;
        gpios = <&gpio_ao GPIOAO_3 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
   };
};

leds {
    compatible = "gpio-leds";
    #status = "disabled";

    sys-led {
        label="sys_led";
        gpios=<&gpio_ao GPIOAO_11 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
        default-state ="on";
        retain-state-suspended;
        linux,default-trigger="cpu0";
        };
};

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but it only caused interference with the IR remote control. (gpio-keys-polled) After a few button presses, the exit menu suddenly starts to flicker on off on off... Kodi can then no longer be operated and must be terminated via terminal. I hadn't caught either the LED or the Power HW button at the time. With your patch I have the same flakes. The HW power button and the LED don't work either. Dreamtwo has an RGB LED. I think Dreamone is only blue. If I set the gpio-keys-polled to GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW, the menu stops flickering, but it still appears with almost every X keystroke, but you get out with exit.

What are the adc keys for? how can i test it?

_emanuel_ · January 7, 2023 at 9:23 PM

New build from amlogic branch works nice as far as I can see, till now no shutdown (pm) problems.

Masutin · January 9, 2023 at 9:04 PM

Not sure if this relates to the OS or Kodi (then a query for kodi.tv). Issues with playback, seeking and subtitles. AlexELEC with Kodi 18.5 for mostly HD H264 off an SD. Playing a first file is always or mostly fine. Any next file may play or always plays shifted, so I need to stop and start.

1) Reason enough to try a new build?

2) I have read in http://wiki.libreelec.tv/hardware/amlogic.

Still, a few questions. It appears I need builds marked as 'box'. Is my only source http://test.libreelec.tv/11.0/Amlogic/box?

Should I consider test builds in other locations?

Builds for 10 are not for Amlogic (http://test.libreelec.tv/10.0/Generic), so unsuitable?

**Da Flex** · January 10, 2023 at 1:54 AM

Quote from Masutin

AlexELEC with Kodi 18.5 for mostly HD H264 off an SD.

Wrong forum.

**chewitt** · January 10, 2023 at 5:32 AM

Quote from Masutin

It appears I need builds marked as 'box'. Is my only source http://test.libreelec.tv/11.0/Amlogic/box?
Builds for 10 are not for Amlogic (http://test.libreelec.tv/10.0/Generic), so unsuitable?

Experimental LE11 test images are here: https://test.libreelec.tv/11.0/Amlogic or https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/ nothing else will run on Amlogic hardware. If there is no specific device-tree for your box you will need to experiement (lots of devices are similar.. we have no idea what specs/hardware your box has). Note that the boot process is different to legacy images. There are no LE10 images (or nothing worth using). There is zero support for piracy images like AE in this forum.

Official LE11 Test Images for Amlogic (Kodi-20)

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