Please also consider 5.1 audio DTS-HD DolbyTrueHD DTS-HD Mster
That is not yet implemented in kernel. However, some developers showed some interest to work on that, but it will still take some time.
Posts by jernej
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Do you think that your development will in the future support 4К video
That's the plan. But before that, I have to buy such monitor.
Is there a way to install update without networking?
No. I don't have X2, so I can't really do anything. If you find something, you can do PR to LE allwinner repo.
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LibreELEC-H3.arm-8.0-devel-20170516114055-r25546-g745f679-opipcplus.img
That's not my work.
OE port is superior for now, at least for HW decoding. But it is totally unsupported. BTW, this thread was made only to show what is achievable with current mainline kernel, it's not meant to replace OE images right away. When it will be good enough to do that, it will be promoted to official LE repository.
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work but no wifi.
As mentioned in OP, RTL8189FTV driver is not included and due to future direction of LibreELEC it probably won't work later anyway, unless someone rewrites driver completely. I suggest you use some cheap wifi dongle which already have good mainline kernel support.
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Yeah, I didn't change much regarding codecs, just few small fixes. Most important update this time is Kodi bump to beta3.
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I added image for OrangePi Lite and new update for all images.
please understand than current images are composed of alpha quality LibreELEC, beta quality Kodi and pre-alpha quality of Allwinner specifics, including HW video codecs.
As I said in OP, MPEG2 is the only really working codec, while H264 and H265 are far from fully working. It will probably take months before they are ready
I'm not sure plugins will work well with any image I'll release, because my images will always have latest development version of Kodi, where plugin interface might change. However, you can always build the plugin you want from the source I provide. Things will stabilize once Allwinner project is good enough to be merged in main branch and thus receive official support.
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I connect to Opi with windows. And I try copy update file but Update folder on sdcard has only 23 MB available space and it's full. Any help? I use 32GB sdcard.
You see EXT4 partition on Windows? Anyway, you have to do first run after flashing image to be expanded to whole card.
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can you please check OP for update file and install it? H264 should be much better (almost usable) now for non-interlaced content. I also removed some HDMI audio WIP patches which probably cause issues on your setup.
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Plus2e please
Added. Support for 2 GB RAM boards is fixed now. cmd42 I re-uploaded image for plus, which should work on plus2 now.
I also updated codec limitations and hopefully they are more clear now.
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Please OrangePi One
Added.
I have a beelink x2 (http://linux-sunxi.org/beelink_x2), would it be possible to make an image for this?
I'll prepare image for that, but TV boxes are usually unsupported category here. Beelink X2 may be an exception, because it is supported by mainline kernel.
Orange Pi Plus2 pls?
If I remember correctly, the only difference between Plus and Plus 2 is the amount of RAM. That means you can easily use image for Plus. However, please note that there might be (bigger than already) issues due to extra RAM (some calculations). Nothing that can't be easily fixed, but I have to test that first.
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Please OrangePi One
OrangePi One has only 256 MB of RAM, which is a bit low. I'll test it anyway over the weekend.
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I have the Banana Pi M1 and interested to try.
As said in OP, only H3 is supported. Actually, A20 should be easy to add, but I don't have any such board, so somebody else should add needed bits.
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I just opened a new thread with description and link to images.
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This topic is superseded by new one!
Hello everyone,
after a lot of work, which isn't finished by far, I can present you first, somehow usable, images.
IMAGES:
Images for following boards are available
here:H3 based boards:
- BananaPi M2+
- Beelink X2
- Libretech ALL-H3-CC (Tritium) (H3 SoC)
- OrangePi 2
- OrangePi PC
- OrangePi PC Plus
- OrangePi Plus/Plus 2 (same image for both boards)
- OrangePi Plus 2E
Boards with less than 1 GiB of RAM are not supported!
A64 based boards:
- OrangePi Win
- Pine64
- Pine64 LTS
- Pine64 Plus
H6 based boards:
- Pine H64
IMAGE UPDATES:
Once you prepared base image, take the latest update for your SoC
here. It works with any board. Just grab the latest by the date. It would be too much work and it would take too much space if I would upload fresh image for each board each time.If you have different, unsupported board, drop a message here. I'm interested what are the most popular boards. TV boxes are not supported, except Beelink X2.
FEATURES:
- mainline kernel & U-Boot
- completely open source except GPU (Mali) driver (until Lima project is good enough for Kodi)
- latest Kodi
- zero copy decoding & rendering
- shared decoding & rendering code with other SoCs (with small adjustement for now)
- compared to OpenELEC images with BSP kernel, HDMI should work with any monitor automatically
- HDMI CEC
- multi channel HDMI audio (correct audio output must be selected)
- IR receiver
- Analog audio (except H6)
LIMITATIONS:
- only H3, H6 and A64 SoCs are supported for now
- only MPEG2, H264 and H265 (HEVC) codecs are supported in hardware, for now. Others are software decoded.
- 10 bit videos are not supported (hardware limitation)
- MPEG2 should work well
- H265 works in general, with some videos not properly decoded
- H264 works in general, with some videos not properly decoded
- deinterlacing is not yet implemented (combing is visible)
- OrangePi onboard wifi chips are not supported (RTL8189ETV and RTL8189FTV)
- sleep is not implemented
- no eMMC install script, but it should be easy to port it from old OpenELEC images
- no support for TV out
- no temperature sensor for SoC, so it may get a bit hot (driver is WIP)
- HDMI audio passthrough doesn't work yet (it might in some cases)
Plan for the future:
As you can see, most limitations are kernel related. Some of those limitations are already worked upon and I will probably add patches soon after they are posted and work well enough. Others limitations, like drivers for RTL8189ETV and RTL8189FTV are unlikely to being resolved anytime soon, if ever. They are pain to maintain and are not compatible with iwd.
Code repositories:
allwinner branch on LE github: GitHub - LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv at allwinner (official branch for AW SoCs)
hw_dec_ffmpeg branch on my github: GitHub - jernejsk/LibreELEC.tv at hw_dec_ffmpeg (same as above with work in progress, source for images linked here)
I also accept suggestion which drivers should be enabled in kernel config and which boards should be added. Support for other SoCs is planned to be added later, when kernel support is good enough and appropriate GPU driver is available.
Thanks to all who helped with this in any way.
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I finally had enough time to fix playback issues in Kodi (but not in driver!). So, is there any interest in preview image? If so, I can open new thread with all the details and links for downloading.
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Did you know if the SOC Allwinner A31s is supported or will be supported in the future?
I don't have any board with A31s, so someone else would need to contribute changes needed to support it. From what I know, not much is needed.
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Hi jernej, anything new since your last post?
Not really. I'm waiting for kernel update to 4.18 before I update Allwinner branch. After that I will probably have to rewrite Kodi hack to support VAAPI with DRMPRIME renderer. Only then I might prepare initial test image with MPEG2 HW acceleration, but I'm not sure how useful such image would be. H264 and H265 are not ready yet.
