I was thinking of getting a extra box with a Allwinner chip, so I have all flavors of boxes (looks like H6.. series is best ?)
Yes, H6 is the best.
I was wondering if this new passthru feature you are testing also works thru the boxes s/pdif (optical or coaxial) outputs ?
I tested passthrough only on HDMI, but in theory it should work also on SPDIF. It's currently enabled only on Beelink GS1 (talking about H6). I have to check if my Tanix TX6 has it...
Great! Fix will be included in next nightly image.
If driver for them ever lands in kernel, then yes. Will that happen? I don't know. We're talking here only about official support. In the past, there were community images which had out-of-tree Realtek driver(s), but I don't know their status.
I believe wifi connections issues are due to Python 3.8 update and usage of ancient python dbus libraries. See:
ilyaigpetrov Gass StaticallyLinked Kodi and LE settings addon were just updated, please re-try next nightly image. LE settings addon has some fixes in it, which may help, but can't say for sure. I'll check commit history to see what could cause that issue.
EDIT: If kernel is really ok, I would bet on Python update (from 3.7 to 3.8). LE settings addon has some fixes for that.
Both are from Armbian on orange pi pc, not libreelec (If I remember correctly libreelec doesn't allow to switch to a virtual console). If you need these logs exactly on libreelec -- let me know.
dmesg actually matters. Use ssh which you can enable in LE settings addon.
ilyaigpetrov Can you provide output of lsusb and dmesg commands when dongle is inserted?
levitsky86 To be honest I don't use playback in background and don't care about that much. First of all, what lagging means? Is GUI rendered slower than when there is no video playback in the background? You should play a bit with different playback settings to see if there is a change. Also try videos with different fps.
There are several possibilities - GBM version of Kodi is currently lacking some features which may exhibit something like that but it could be also some driver problem or even HW capability. Hard to say anything.
lumpi you misinterpreted requirement. Only requirement is that display refresh rate is same or higher than video fps, ideally integer multiplier. If it's lower it means A/V sync issues, at least currently. This is known issue but nobody works on it actively.
Gass Can you check Linux version on the working image? Can you provide output of dmesg on newest image? I don't have this particular board, so I can't debug issue directly.
ilyaigpetrov OrangePi PC doesn't have integrated wifi. What kind of wifi dongle you're using? Regarding audio - I tested very latest build on my H3 board and HDMI audio works just fine. Note that there is zero common code for HDMI audio between A20 and H3 so I doubt it's same issue.
You don't need Armbian at all - not for first install, not for update. If you want to update, just copy update file or compressed image to /storage/.update and reboot.
serafis I rebuilt images. Can you try again (same place)?
Thanks for report. Maybe I need to do clean build. I'll ping you when fresh images will be uploaded.
probably addons need to be rebuilt due to recent Kodi bump.
runnershigh I rebased sources on top of latest LE master and uploaded it here: Index of /test/deinterlacing/ But I didn't test them. Can you do that?
serafis Can you test new images from here? Index of /test/passthrough/ I rebased sources but I did no tests yet.
