Official LE13 Test Images for Amlogic (Kodi-22)

    I pushed a set of updated images to my test share. Kernel is 7.3-rc5 and Kodi is v22-rc1.

    Known issues are limited to:

    - GXBB support for HEVC/H264 is capped at 1080p pending further research into HDMI stability at 4K

    - GXBB/GXL/GXM have multi-threaded bwdif software deinterlacing (still a nice improvement on bob)

    - MPEG1, MPEG4 and VC1 are software decoded until we author the kernel UAPI(s) to implement around

    Otherwise all the important stuff: H264/MPEG2/HEVC and VP9 and 10-bit/HDR where hardware supports it, and pass-through audio, are working on GXBB, GXL, GXM, G12A, G12B, and SM1 hardware. If you find media that refuses to play, or glitches/crashes during playback, we'd like a sample file to investigate.

    Image name changed from "AMLGX" to "Amlogic" so do touch /storage/.update/.nocompat before rebooting.

    Enjoy :)

    This works much better than the latest nightly, thanks!

    H.264 and HEVC playback and seeking work fine on both my Odroid N2+ and C2. Even the audio is not broken anymore.

    Only thing I noticed is a popping noise on the analog output of the N2+ whenever playback is started or stopped. HDMI seems fine though.

    Would you mind telling me which source tree you used for building this image? It looks different to what I could produce from both git master and your own github repo...

    You need to combine kernel with ffmpeg and alsa and firmware changes; it’s all tightly aligned. It’s all in my GitHub account, and the LE repo; I pushed changes to master last night.

    Ok, thanks, I can produce a working build by myself now.

    I did some further testing: Some h264 and also some hevc video files produce green "garbage" on screen when playback is started. This garbage disappears when the next keyframe is seen.

    I have a small sample video file uploaded here: https://filebin.net/6gkcb0hab2ra0cox/test2.mkv and a kodi.log when trying to playback that file.

    Also a MPEG2/1080i sample file from https://kodi.wiki/view/Samples plays back incorrectly (too fast at first, then choppy).