Posts by dipswitch

How is this possible. As i understood the problem with LE on s912 was the lack of a framebuffer driver with the neccesary librarys. Has this issue been resolved? Did amlogic released the t820 linux driver?

What amazes me is that there are many great soc's out there, and allmost all of them lack proper firmware/driver support. With amlogic being one of the "better" supported soc's, take rockchip for example. Great spec's, no proper support. And the list is long; one could almost say that amlogic is propably one of the few manufacturers that has "some" support on "some" of their soc's. Having 802-805-812 working relatively good, 905 also ok, 912 crap support.

So for anyone reading this thread and wanting to ask when s912 linux/LE will be there: ASK AMLOGIC!! They are the ones refusing to release the proper driver/code for the s912 soc. Asking the community to write their one framebuffer code is...crazy (especially without the documentation that only amlogic has).

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I haven't tried HD18Q builds. Will go and test it tonight. Keep you posted.. Thanks for the advice.

Just installed the HD18 build. Installs perfectly. For whom is facing the same problem, this concerns the black "mxq" box with black logo. I'll attach a photo of the box. Even the remote works again with the HD18 remote file. The installtointernal copied it immediately.

s805Kodi:~ # installtointernal
This script will erase BOOT, SYSTEM, and DATA on your device
and install LE that you booted from SD card/USB drive.

The script does not have any safeguards!

Type "yes" if you know what you are doing or anything else to exit: yes
Writing kernel image...86+1 records in
86+1 records out
5650432 bytes (5.4MB) copied, 0.764111 seconds, 7.1MB/s
done.
Formatting SYSTEM partition...done.
Copying SYSTEM files...done.
Formatting DATA partition...done.
Restoring remote.conf...done.
Do you want to copy your user data to internal data partition? [Y/n] n
All done! You can now continue using your LE system or type "rebootfromnand" to reboot from internal memory.
s805Kodi:~ # rebootfromnand

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It looks like there's an issue with mounting system partition. Have you tried both MXQ and HD18Q builds?

I haven't tried HD18Q builds. Will go and test it tonight. Keep you posted.. Thanks for the advice.

I just spend the evening trying to get this build installed to nand on my MXQ s805. All of my attemps failed.

First, i wrote the image to sd. Booting from sd with toothpick method works fine. After enabling ssh, i ran the installtointernal command. The first attempt resulted in no errors. But after a reboot i only get "Android system recovery <3e>" showing "no command" error.

After this, i tried the recovery install procedure with 7.0.3.3.a build. I installs fine, but after rebooting it freezes showing the libreelec logo.

After this, i tried again install with "installtointernal", now with 7.95.beta.5a . Again i can boot from sd. But now this is wat happens:

Backing up remote.conf...mount: mounting /dev/system on /tmp/system failed: Invalid argument
umount: can't unmount /tmp/system: Invalid argument
done.
Writing kernel image...88+1 records in
88+1 records out
5781504 bytes (5.5MB) copied, 3.520047 seconds, 1.6MB/s
done.
Formatting SYSTEM partition...done.
Copying SYSTEM files...mount: mounting /dev/system on /tmp/system failed: Invalid argument
umount: can't unmount /tmp/system: Invalid argument
done.
Formatting DATA partition...done.
Do you want to copy your user data to internal data partition? [Y/n] n
All done! You can now continue using your LE system or type "rebootfromnand" to reboot from internal memory.

Again tried 7.95.beta6, same result.

To sum things up: i can do recovery with 7.0.3.3 but this won't boot LE. With 7.95.beta6 i can boot from sd but cant install nor boot from internal nand.

Please help...

Just installed the latest beta on my mxiii-1gb s802. Looks and feel are great! I am unable to install pvr addons ( i am using kodi for tv viewing) and there are no deinterlace options to be made (greyed out). As my tv source is 1080i, could (perhaps some fancy temporal) is deinterlacing possible on s802, does the gpu support this in hardware?

Thanks for the hard work!!

Seems im going to be spending my evening flashing the mxiii again . Thanks for all your hard work Drieschel. Ill keep you guys posted!
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This is really cool! Just threw in LibreELEC-S802.MXIII-1G.arm-7.0.2-2-devel.tar . Copied it to the /update smb share. Updating went without problems. Now the mxiii boots blazing fast! No more errors in red in dmesg. Watching livetv now (legally, paid cable subscribtion, dvblink w. hardware cam solution).

First of all: my mce remote is working! No more cheap tiny flimsy button remote, but the old faithfull mce remote with big buttons. Great!

My first observations: it seems the output is not as "smooth" in comparison to my x86-64 i5 gt610 openelec setup. Cant say it stutters, not at all. Maybe there's a difference in deinterlacing? The nvidia solution has that fancy motion temporal spatial thingy deinterlacing. To be honest: i havent seen anything better at decoding then the nvidia gpu's. It wouldnt be fair to compare a little low budget SOC to a big x86 nvidia setup.

That said, i'm grealty impressed. Im wondering if it would be possible to tweak the video output settings, like deinterlacing technique. Or maybe we could do yadif deinterlacing on the cpu? (would that a9 quadcore be powerfull enough to do that?) What about anti aliasing, would the gpu on the s802 be able to do this?

Quote from drieschel

You get the deinterlacing options back when you disable amcodec (Settings->Video->Acceleration->Allow hardware acceleration - amcodec). But the movies will be decoded by software then and not by hardware. If I understood it correct, there is no need for the deinterlacing options when amcodec is used ([solved] Request Kodi code to Set De-interlacing OFF by default).

Edit: Could you save the dmesg output directly after boot (before the ring buffer turned a round^^) and attach it here?

Glad you found the way to this forum.

This should be the dmesg output fresh from start.

I'm wondering, are there settings which can be adjusted on the amcodec? Such as deinterlace type, scaling method, and so on?

Quote from drieschel

That's great news!

If there would be some kind of deinterlacing, where would I find the settings in Kodi?

Can you tell me the exact version you used from amlinux.ru?

Yes, power off doesn't work yet.

Settings such as deinterlacing are accessable while playing video and then choosing "video settings" (see attachment, image from my x86 openelec htpc). I used to run "OpenELEC-Amlogic.arm-S82-6.0.0"

Quote from drieschel

Glad to hear that.

dipswitch
I compiled a version with a dtd file for 1G Devices. Please test it and let me know if it worked or not. Here is the link to the build: Index of /LibreElec/MXIII-1G

I was able to install this version. It boots up, after showing the bootloader logo it gives a short error in red while booting, after that it shows the kodi logo and starts libreelec.

My observations: pvr works fine, i'm using the dvblink plugin at this moment. I do not have the video settings which i am used to in the x86 version of libreelec. No deinterlacing of any kind. My mce remote doesnt work (it did in the build from amlinux.ru). When i turn off the device from within the menu it turns off my tv through CEC and the mxiii reboots.

Quote from drieschel

Okay, I will make another build with the dtd for your device included and let you know when it's uploaded.

Thanks!

This should be the firmware for my box:

download-kitkat-4-4-2-114k4-firmware-for-tronsmart-mxiii-tv-box.html

Quote from drieschel

The builds on amlinux.ru are from kerber who is from Russia. Sounded for me that you are talking about all russians.^^ I see people, not countries, if you understand what I mean. I can try to make a build with the right dtd included. Can you send me a link to an android firmware for your 1GB device? So I can better figure out which dtd is the right one for your box.

I didnt mean anything negative about russians or the maker of the firmware, it was just a matter of expression... Im not entirely sure where to find the firmware. Im going to search for it and come back to you soon.

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I uploaded a newer version: 7.0.2

freeque
"mali irq sharing" is activated in this build, so you could try if it solves the problem with the PVR addon.

dipswitch
I think the problem could be a missing dtd file for the 1GB version in this build.

What do you mean with "the russians"?

Thanks for the reply. The only openelec build i got to "work" on my mxiii was one from http://amlinux.ru/image , i was under the impression that these where russion builds?

I dont know what a dtd file is, is this something i can do myself?

I have the original MXIII s802 1gb (ram) box, unfortunately this firmware doesn't run on it. It flashes allright, reboots, shows the libreelec logo, and then freezes. Since i bought the mxiii 1gb box i only got troubles with it. It seems most openelec/amlinux/libreelec arm builds are build for the 2gb version of the box. Only an old openelec amlinux from the russions runs (but with no deinterlacing so for me unusuable). I have been regretting not buying the 2gb version ( just to save a few bucks ) each day. A foolish decision it was...

Would my observation that there is no working 7.x build for s802 1gb mxiii box be right?