Official LE13 Test Images for Amlogic (Kodi-22)

  • Thanks for info. There is one more aspect to the story - all those older devices, used for Kodi, mean that no new stuff has been bought. Which means less polution, less carbon dioxide etc. etc. - it is simply greener. Hence, nice to have those old devices supported!

  • Both the nightlies and chewitt's experimental builds are giving me issues with symbols for libwidevine. Not sure if something changed with libc, this had been working a month or so ago. If need be, I can find time to trace it down to a specific

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    error <general>: AddOnLog: inputstream.adaptive: Initialize: Initialize: Failed to load library: /storage/.kodi/cdm/libwidevinecdm.so: undefined symbol: __aarch64_ldadd4_acq_rel

    I ran this script, https://github.com/AsahiLinux/wid…devine_fixup.py which adds some stuff for those symbols, resulting in a working library again.

  • A couple things to let people know:

    (1) To close out the widevine issue, it was related to changes in inputstream adaptive and is already resolved per

    olze
    November 16, 2024 at 6:35 PM


    (2) I notice, with the latest bump of Kodi in both the nightlies and chewitt's experimental builds, the GUI no longer renders on my Odroid C2. That is due to a bug in Kodi, looks like the following should correct that https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/25981 once it is merged.


    (3) Found a minor error being thrown related to the clock:

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    error <general>: SETTINGS: execute # Command failed: /sbin/hwclock --systohc --utc 2>/dev/null
  • The latest images in my testing share have some changes:

    • FFmpeg bump to v7.1 - In brief testing I didn't see changes (no regressions, no improvements) but none were expected.
    • Some patches from @sarbes that improve GUI performance - although we're firmly in the realm of marginal gains so don't expect performance changes to be overly noticeable.
    • Ethernet performance on WP2 appears to have doubled (33MB/s is now 76MB/s) - although I am not sure why, but I suspect recent kernel changes suggested-by kszaq are responsible. It's nice to see as it's always bugged me why the WP2 NIC ran at half the speed of the (also 1Gb/sec) NIC on a N2+ or RPi4/5 board. I've no idea if this impacts other boxes .. but maybe. EDIT: An N2+ board also shows improvement from 75-80MB/s to ~110MB/s so this appears to be a general improvement.

    Luni the subtitle issue is due to Kodi changes from @sarbes that impact Mali 400/450 GPUs. I've flagged the issues to him.