Thank you. I have given up on Libreelec on banana pro. However, I have quite some success with compiling mosterta's modifications for kernel and some other libraries to compile and run kodi for bananapro. See thread and my last post:
hardware acceleration on allwinner A10/A20 with vdpau and OpenGLES (zero-copy)
Regards.
I don't think you are using mainline kernel and the kodi version higher than the helix.
Thank you majorkalina for your reply. As you know I did change the config to bananapi. The device boots fine, but does not play some of the video formats. How did your board work with kodi. Were you able to play mp4 and mpeg2 files? I appreciate any comments or suggestions.
Hello,
as I wrote in #17:
video playback is not good at all.
h264, AVC downloaderd movies; mpeg2 and h265 is issue;
h264, AVC some test videos from Samples - Official Kodi Wiki plays O.K.;
mpeg1 and xvid in avi and mkv container plays O.K.
Display Morejernej:
My source from git did not have this edit. So I also modified line 137 in the patch as shown above and rebuild the image. But still same error. The device boots but exits to command prompt which seems to have fully functional linux. But when I once again ran kodi from /usr/lib/kodi/kodi.bin, I got the same error: unable to create GUI. exiting.
Looks like I am close to running kodi, I know majorkalina has run it on banana pro, so I should be. What am I doing wrong? First I cloned the main branch from your code and then checked out a20. Should I have used a specific version of the branch as outlined on Libreelec wiki? My steps were:
1)git clone GitHub - jernejsk/LibreELEC.tv: Just enough OS for KODI
2) git checkout a20
3) did the edit in uboot_helper as suggested
4) PROJECT=Allwinner ARCH=arm DEVICE=A20 UBOOT_SYSTEM=bananapi_pro make image
I know that there are issues with the video playing, but at least I should be able to get into the kodi interface. Looking forward to any help I can get. Regards.
Hello,
I think that Bananapi and Bananapi pro use the same hw concept.
My way is:
1. $ git clone --branch a20 GitHub - jernejsk/LibreELEC.tv: Just enough OS for KODI
2. $ cd LibreELEC.tv
3. $ PROJECT=Allwinner DEVICE=A20 ARCH=arm UBOOT_SYSTEM=bananapi make image
Oh yes, you got it without myproposal,
I rebased a20 at branch GitHub - jernejsk/LibreELEC.tv: Just enough OS for KODI on top on master and adjusted config.
I think, in the file
https://github.com/jernejsk/libreelec.tv/blob/a20/projects/allwinner/devices/a20/options
the line 41
https://github.com/jernejsk/libreelec.tv/blob/a20/projects/allwinner/devices/a20/options#l41
ADDITIONAL_DRIVERS="$ADDITIONAL_DRIVERS gpu-sunxi"
is obsolete.
Added to linux.arm.conf otherwise keyboard doesn't work on BananaPi:
CONFIG_AXP20X_POWER=y
CONFIG_SUN4I_A10_CCU=y
majorkalina since you build image yourself, it will be quicker if you just change this line: ffmpeg-95.0002-add-common-v4l2-request-api-code.patch#l126 to +#include <drm/drm_fourcc.h>
According to your advice:
some h264 plays O.K. (SD), some empties the bottom quarter of the GUI (HD)
mpeg2: downloaded file from net produces error (image and log attached), my own DVB-T channels and recordings only occasionally.
cannot play .avi container: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o5kcyrqvsabmxofaxksfz-xj_ntnplpj/view?usp=sharing
Images: https://ibb.co/album/nlipbf
Kodi logs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ajpfxzyall7gsraagqylwbms54vbkczv/view?usp=sharing
roel majorkalina please enable debug logging in settings and specifically enable ffmpeg logging in submenu. Then open MPEG2 aor H264 video and after that upload kodi log somewhere. This should provide clues why it doesn't work.
It's hard to do development without hardware. Hopefully I can fix video playback and other features can be fixed by someone else who actually has A20 board(s).
Thanks for reply, my logs: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1no4lkjfu9c_qw272cmnaohqmxta5fhus
roel there is no HDMI audio support for A20, mainline or out-of-tree, but analog audio should work.
Yes, CEC works, but it should be other way around, when Kodi starts, it should turn TV on, not off
You can test by turning TV off and reboot MK808c. TV should turn on automatically.
Can you please test video decoding? only MPEG2 and H264 are supported in HW.
Hello, I compiled LE from repo (kernel 5.1) for my Lemaker Bananapi (A20);
ir remote works, analog audio works, PC monitor hdmi works.
But HW mpeg2 video decoding not (TV recording). Probably is needed some customization of kernel/ffmpeg
I do it, but my OrangePi PC don't get RC commands =(
My rc_maps.cfg:
Code$> cat /storage/.config/rc_maps.cfg sunxi-ir * my_remoteMy keymap
Code$> cat /storage/.config/rc_keymaps/my_remote # table samsung, type: NEC 0x70760 KEY_UP 0x70761 KEY_DOWN 0x70765 KEY_LEFT 0x70762 KEY_RIGHT 0x70768 KEY_SELECT 0x70747 KEY_PLAY 0x70746 KEY_STOP 0x70758 KEY_BACK 0x70704 KEY_1 0x70705 KEY_2 0x70706 KEY_3 0x70708 KEY_4 0x70709 KEY_5 0x7070a KEY_6 0x7070c KEY_7 0x7070d KEY_8 0x7070e KEY_9 0x70711 KEY_0 0x70748 KEY_NEXT 0x70745 KEY_PREVIOUS 0x7072d KEY_CLEARAfter boot my ir-keytable dont read setting:
Code$> ir-keytable -r scancode 0x002a = KEY_COFFEE (0x98) Enabled protocols:Code$> ir-keytable Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event0) with: Name: sunxi-ir Driver: sunxi-ir, table: rc-empty Supported protocols: other rc-5 rc-5-sz jvc sony nec sanyo mce_kbd rc-6 sharp xmp Enabled protocols: bus: 25, vendor/product: 0001:0001, version: 0x0100 Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 125 msAnd If I load my keyfile manualy, Kodi dont see comands (but ir-keytable read and decode key to command) =(
Code$> ir-keytable -c -w /storage/.config/rc_keymaps/my_remote Read samsung table Old keytable cleared Wrote 21 keycode(s) to driver Protocols changed to nec $> ir-keytable -t Testing events. Please, press CTRL-C to abort. 467.546112: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x70761 467.546112: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_down: KEY_DOWN(0x006c) 467.546112: event type EV_SYN(0x00). 467.654209: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x70761 467.654209: event type EV_SYN(0x00). 467.890052: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_up: KEY_DOWN(0x006c) 467.890052: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
Sorry, I forget one important line in my previous answer:
# ir-keytable
Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event1) with:
Name: sunxi-ir
Driver: sunxi-ir, table: rc-empty
lirc device: /dev/lirc0
Supported protocols: other lirc rc-5 rc-5-sz jvc sony nec sanyo mce_kbd rc-6 sharp xmp
Enabled protocols: lirc nec
bus: 25, vendor/product: 0001:0001, version: 0x0100
Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 125 msYou have to see some enabled protocol (nec)
If there is nothing to see, You can enable it manually:
# ir-keytable -s rc0 -p NECWhy not allowed when loading is a great secret!
Display MoreInstalled the system on an orange pi pc and got a few problems.
The remote is not working. There are 2 remotes, one of them works with Kodi 18 on 905 CPU and the settings (conf) remote I have. Tried manually re-create the console database via shh.
"Now hold down button "key_power".
Something went wrong: Cannot decode data
Please try again. (23 retries left)"
My TV(Samsung) does not see HDMI-SEC. 905 although on the console it works. Orange can only turn my TV on and off, which is very strange.
In system settings I did not find the item hdmi-sec.
The most important thing is why the remote control does not work, it is inconvenient to control the mouse.
What am I doing wrong?It's very easyInfrared Remotes [LibreELEC.wiki]
There is very easy way to have success!
According to Infrared Remotes [LibreELEC.wiki] and my experience
Delete the file: \storage\.config\lircd.conf if exists.
Find your remote in \usr\lib\udev\rc_keymaps\
If You want to change something in found file; copy it to folder \storage\.config\rc_keymaps\ and there you can do it.
Run command: ir-keytable
You should see something like:
Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event1) with:
Name: sunxi-ir
Driver: sunxi-ir, table: rc-empty
lirc device: /dev/lirc0
Supported protocols: other lirc rc-5 rc-5-sz jvc sony nec sanyo mce_kbd
Create file \storage\.config\rc_maps.cfg with this content:
sunxi-ir * tevii_nec
There are no ffmpeg patches for this yet. Maybe wait until they are ready? Or you want to be proactive and help us with programming?
Hi,
I would like to help but I am not an expert in this field (ffmpeg, hw video acceleration and so on).
When it comes to drm format modifiers patches i found this: [RESEND,v5,04/23] drm/sun4i: frontend: Pass DRM format info to input format helpers - Patchwork I do not know if it's all and if it's enough.
Display MoreI suggest you start from GitHub - jernejsk/LibreELEC.tv: Just enough OS for KODI
1. Add A20 specific subfolder here: https://github.com/jernejsk/libreelec.tv/tree/hw_dec_ffmpeg/projects/allwinner/devices Check H3 subfolder what it has to contain. You can just copy H3 folder as a starting point and check every file what needs to be changed. You have to definitely remove all Linux patches and add A20 specific ones. You have to add patches from Paul Kocialkowski where he added support for YUV (kernel/git/next/linux-next.git - The linux-next integration testing tree - everything from 2018-11-27 and newer) and support for DRM format modifiers (patches are somewhere on some mailing list, probably dri-devel). Remove all U-Boot patches.
2. Enable A20 specific drivers in kernel config: linux.arm.conf
3. Add boards to U-Boot helper script: LibreELEC.tv/uboot_helper at hw_dec_ffmpeg · jernejsk/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub
4. Extend FFmpeg support for using modifiers in V4L2 request codec. But if you come to this point, ping me and me and others could assist you.
After that, there are various small tasks, but most important one - hw video playback, will be already done.
In general, make bootable image first (points 1 - 3). However, to do that, you don't need any Linux patches, so that should be really easy.
Hello.
According to Your recipe I created Libreelec for Bananapi A20 arm. I applied patches from kernel/git/next/linux-next.git, but I am confused about support for DRM format modifiers. Please, can You suggest a path?
Thanks in advance
