Legacy v9.2 (LTS) builds for Amlogic S805/S8X2, S905/S912 and all WeTek boxes

Quote from Tartarus

To me, hanging at 30-40% processor usage doesn't mean that the SoC is weak, but that the decoder is poorly optimized.
Maybe the newer version will bring more performance improvements, or maybe rav1d.

Unfortunately, it is no coincidence that dav1d v1.0.0 was included, and not a newer version. Even for v1.0.0 it was not easy to backport and test the necessary ffmpeg modifications, but for v1.3.0 a lot of things would have to be modified. Since Leia's ffmpeg is an old version, even if I wouldn't call it an impossible task, it's not worth spending so much time, because I don't think the situation would improve much.

However, dav1d v1.3.0 is already present in the LE12 AMLGX image, so if you want to give it a try, I recommend you try that.

Quote from Tartarus

I want to keep using the old device so it doesn't end up in the trash, not buy a new one, if software solution is possible.

No one suggested throwing it into the trash, but compared to H.265, I don't know how much better the AV1 codec really is, especially because the hardware acceleration of HEVC is still available on S905. By the way, software decoding always causes unnecessary heat dissipation for the SoC, and knowing this, I no longer see the point, because it is no longer energy efficient anymore.

Quote from menn0

Ive updated to the latest compatible tvheadend I could find, which I think is ...

I suggest you look around the LE addons repository first, you will be surprised.

Quote from menn0

Ai, since I run the whole operation through cli, some 60 miles away, that is not an option unforutnately. What is the source of this 4.3 addon? Can I manually mine this repo? A link would be appreciated :))

Unfortunately, the directory index on my server is hidden under the package repositories (due to the search robots), so I can only provide a direct link to the binary at most:

https://libreelec.dtech.hu/packages/9.2.0/WeTek_Play/arm/service.tvheadend43/service.tvheadend43-9.2.0.225.zip

Quote from menn0

ill install it later tongiht and report back, I hope it all works, or else my wetek simply imploded

Mainly because of the distance, I also recommend another addon, which is also available in my repo, and this is the VNC addon.

With this, you will also see the GUI, provided that there is a display on the box:

https://libreelec.dtech.hu/packages/9.2.0/WeTek_Play/arm/service.system.aml-vnc/service.system.aml-vnc-9.2.0.106.zip

menn0

It looks like a total mess what you're doing on the console.

Even though the binary doesn't start due to an error, the service is probably still running in the background. That's probably why you can't delete it because it's currently in use. First you need to stop that:

systemctl stop service.tvheadend43

But why do you want to delete this service file? I don't see any sense in this.

And, I don't even understand that symlinking. This will in no way lead to results.

Installing, deleting and updating binary addons without the GUI is a quite problematic.

Quote from Honiks

Hello dtech. I have a question about assembly for X8-X8H. I own a MINIX Neo X8-H device. It claims 2 GB of RAM, but in the system information I see that the system only detects 1553 MB of RAM. Is this how it should be? or do I need to configure something?

You will be surprised, but you are not the first to ask this. Kodi displays the amount of memory it can use as total memory.

If you run a dmesg, it also becomes clear to you that the device pre-allocates certain memory areas for some built-in purpose.

For example, it looks like this for the M8S-Plus:

[    0.000000@0] physical memory start address is 0x200000
[    0.000000@0] reserved_end is 20afffff
[    0.000000@0]
[    0.000000@0] Total memory is 2046 MiB
[    0.000000@0] Reserved low memory from 0x06000000 to 0x20afffff, size: 427 MiB
[    0.000000@0]        mesonfb0(low)           : 0x06100000 - 0x0c100000 ( 96 MiB)
[    0.000000@0]        mesonfb1(low)           : 0x0c100000 - 0x0c200000 (  1 MiB)
[    0.000000@0]        deinterlace0(high)      : 0x7df00000 - 0x80000000 ( 33 MiB)
[    0.000000@0]        mesonstream0(low)       : 0x0c200000 - 0x0e200000 ( 32 MiB)
[    0.000000@0]        vdec0(low)      : 0x0e200000 - 0x1e200000 (256 MiB)
[    0.000000@0]        ppmgr0(high)    : 0x7bf00000 - 0x7df00000 ( 32 MiB)
[    0.000000@0]        vdin00(low)     : 0x1e200000 - 0x1e300000 (  1 MiB)
[    0.000000@0]        vdin10(low)     : 0x1e300000 - 0x1f300000 ( 16 MiB)
[    0.000000@0]        amlvideo20(low)         : 0x1f300000 - 0x20b00000 ( 24 MiB)

In addition, a few other things require reserved memory, so in the end this will be the amount that can actually be used freely:

[    0.000000@0] Memory: 64MB 16MB 1460MB = 1540MB total
[    0.000000@0] Memory: 1545608k/1545608k available, 31352k reserved, 1250304K highmem

I hope it's clear now.

Quote from Honiks

Dtech, thanks for the quick response. I understand you. But there is another problem, and it is related to wi-fi. For some reason, when connected to 5G Wi-Fi, the TVbox periodically restarts itself and loses the network. On 2.5g there is no such problem - everything works stably. Maybe the problem is related to the Wi-Fi channels?

Why doesn't anyone read the leading post of this topic?

Quote from dtech

IMPORTANT NOTES - Please read them carefully before asking:

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• I can't do miracles with the wifi and bluetooth drivers built into the kernel, so I can't do anything about "cannot connect", "the signal is weak" or "the connection is slow" errors either, so please don't expect a solution from me.

Quote from Da Flex

The thread is 50 pages now. Should I close it? Users don't read the whole story anymore.

No one needs to read the whole thing, I was just referring to the very first post.

I don't want to close this topic yet, because I'm still adding minor updates to it.

Quote from dtech

Latest version: LibreELEC 9.2.8.11 (Release date: 2023-09-11)

^ In short, this topic is not completely dead yet.