Posts by tavoc

Thx, I was only wondering, because my compiled version did not work either for mpeg2.

I thought I forgot some kind of magic there, like enabling the patch

Hi chewitt, some quick question. I still want to remove hardware mpeg2 decoding.

By adding the following patch file into:

/LibreELEC.tv/projects/Amlogic/devices/AMLGX/patches/linux/

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec_platform.c b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec_platform.c
index 810039a02b44ba..9cf21519c4879d 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec_platform.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec_platform.c
@@ -112,17 +112,6 @@ static const struct amvdec_format vdec_formats_gxl[] = {
         .firmware_path = "meson/vdec/gxl_mpeg12.bin",
         .pixfmts_cap = { V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12M, V4L2_PIX_FMT_YUV420M, 0 },
         .flags = V4L2_FMT_FLAG_COMPRESSED,
-    }, {
-        .pixfmt = V4L2_PIX_FMT_MPEG2,
-        .min_buffers = 8,
-        .max_buffers = 8,
-        .max_width = 1920,
-        .max_height = 1080,
-        .vdec_ops = &vdec_1_ops,
-        .codec_ops = &codec_mpeg12_ops,
-        .firmware_path = "meson/vdec/gxl_mpeg12.bin",
-        .pixfmts_cap = { V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12M, V4L2_PIX_FMT_YUV420M, 0 },
-        .flags = V4L2_FMT_FLAG_COMPRESSED,
     },
 };

Anything I forgot to do? Because Mpeg2 is still not working

Thanks, will try this over the weekend with your repo chewitt and apply the patch.

See if it works on gxbb

frakkin64 out of interest, how did you disabled hw mpeg2?

Would be interested to try this out, because then I could use a s905 as a simple tvheadend client (only mpeg2 and h264 needed). So I don't mind having softwares code

Thx

Hi chewitt , thanks for the updated K20 image.

I just tried in on my S905 Box out of interest.

The image is in comparision to the K19 more unstable (expected as Kodi is alpha) and crashes a lot.

But with that Image it is possible to watch LiveTV in Mpeg2, which was not possible for your K19 images. Therefore the software decoder for Mpeg2 works good.

Ist there any update on s812 topic, or a way to test an image?

Yes I could buy it and send it to you, if you are interested. But I do have no clue about the shipping cost to Hungary.

Edit. Shipping looks like additional 13 euro. To save a little bit (if the owners of the boxes are ok with that) I could write the owner to directly ship it to you, and I do the payment , communication stuff. But you would receive it directly.

If you are interested, than give me a ping

Just for info. In German eBay kleinanzeigen there are 3 wetek core on sale at the moment. Between 50 and 60€.

If you really want or need one, I can play proxy for you.

https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/wetek-core-uhd-4k-android-kodi-openelec/1841611381-175-8783?utm_source=sharesheet&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialbuttons&utm_content=app_android

For me it helped to deactivate Timeshift in tvheadend. This results on a slow system/server the performance and cause artifacts.

I am running tvheadend and kodi in 3 households with sat to ip with digibits.

On a digibit it helped to install a custom firmware with TCP stream instead UDP. Don't know if there is one for your kathrein

i tested the 9.95.2 today, sadly the mpeg2 decoding does not work. As an improvement I can hear audio in SD channels.

HD is still fine.

The 1g in the dtb refers to gigabit LAN.

Try all for gxbb.

Remote can be configured in LE and CE by ir keytable

Have a look inside the folder rc_keymaps for a how-to. You need the right Scancodes and then the remote will work.

you can always lock into the logs - there is even a dmesg. And if your connection is unstable, than a USB device could help.

Or you simply go throught different dtb files until you find one for gxbb which allows stable network connection.

For this tests I would use a SD card or USB stick.

For repairing your internal storage I already said: find the right android to get back you original u boot

CE 9.2.7 will run fine on a S905. For Kodi 19 there is no build from CE.
chewitt and test.libreelec.tv have an alpha version of LE, but this is far from usable at the moment for your usecase. If you are using only youtube (and nothing else, it should work). But youtube runs on CE as well. Only downside is, that it is based on Kodi 18.9 and will stay there.

for the S905x one and a m ale usb a to a cable (usb burning tool from amlogic) or with a burn card you could try to install an androidtv based ROM to internal.

I am using the builds from aidan at xda-developers

Or you can find the orignal android image of this device to get everything back.

Cross-grade did not work from cvh version. But I installed it new.

HD channels switch is better than on official - SD still does not work.

HD resolution is 1280 x 720 and is decoded in hardware with: ff-h264_v4l2m2m-drm_prime, drm_prime

SD resolution is720x576 and is decoded in hardware with: ff-mpeg2_v4l2m2m-drm_prime

Booth @25 FPS

Kodi Log

SD channels / view in log are after

INFO <general>: CDVDVideoCodecDRMPRIME::Open - using decoder V4L2 mem2mem MPEG2

Does this makes any sense to you - or should I get any other information?

EDIT: youtube works fine, regardless of the resolution

chewitt i will try a build of yours. Can I cross update from this one?

I will see what the codec info shows in tvheadend and try a few other ones.

Are you interested in logfiles from tvheadend?

Did anyone managed to watch SD TV with these images?

I tried the p200 gxbb Version from 11.04 on a Beelink M18.

In TvHeadend HD channels are fine - even switching between them.

Amazon Prime Plugin works as well.

But for SD channel I get a green screen. Is it somewhere possible to define to use mpeg2 software decoding instead of hardware? Maybe it would work then. CPU wise the CPU should be fast enough.

I the Windows Builds there were some options to decide which codes is handled in hardware and which in software. On Arm I have not seen this - maybe because it is not controllable?

Hi balbes150 finally I was able to try all the gxbb DTBs for my Beelink M18.

I tried your build from 14.04 in the ARMv8.arm Version

Wifi is working with the wetek play 2 version (ethernet as well).

Is there a important difference from an end user perspektive in ARM and aarch64 (I know this is the register stuff from the CPU).

I am asking because video is not working well in TVHeadend. The first HD channel is somehow OK, but changing channels do not work. Sometimes even the switch to fullscreen gives a problem. dark grey screen for video.

If someone is interested I could upload the remote configuration.