Not much. This is more about making boards useful again.
Let's see what can be squeezed out of my old a10 tablet with 512mb ram and 4gb nand... Probably not kodi, but maybe replicant or plasma mobile? A tablet is not the most hackable form factor.
Not much. This is more about making boards useful again.
Let's see what can be squeezed out of my old a10 tablet with 512mb ram and 4gb nand... Probably not kodi, but maybe replicant or plasma mobile? A tablet is not the most hackable form factor.
I can't wait to dust off my x92. I'm already happily running nightlies on a beelink x2 (allwinner H3). If the s912 comes to life, thanks to Alyssa's great panfrost effort, that would be great news!
What can A10 in theory achieve? Compared to lets say an H3?
I guess most A10 based boards fail because of the lack of ram...
Support for Allwinner A20 was merged in master. Nightly images are already available. A20 HDMI audio support will hopefully come in January.
Cool! Great news for the new year! Thanks jernej
FYI, thermal driver PR was merged yesterday. Kodi should show now CPU temperature. Also on the SoC which have GPU temperature sensor (A64, H6), gputemp command will show GPU temperature. On H3, gputemp show same temperature as cputemp.
Just checked temperature on my x2:
While watching zattoo it raised via 56 to 58°C
Uptime 1h 38
Hello, do you know if the drivers for the Wi-Fi network will be implemented in the beelink x2?
And you could tell me why I get an error when starting the plex plugin and not starting it?best regards
The beelink x2 has one of two types of wifi inside. Mine has the realtek that doesn't have a properly mainlined driver (yet? Who knows) but it works well with Linux supported usb wifi sticks. I haven't heard of anyone with a broadcom based x2, probably those are very rare.
You'll have to flash the Android firmware using the tool.
That's quite odd if you are used the unbrickable boot sequence of allwinner SOCs.
At the time I wasn't aware something would be altered on the emmc. Else i hadn't tried CE back in the time.
Download the firmware of your device from the manufacturer's website.
for most tv boxes this sounds like a good joke
Unfortunately that's how it works for my x92. Only place where such things can be found are places like freaktab...
Amlogic "USB Burn Tool" allows you to connect the device via USB ports to a Windows laptop and flash an image (in a proprietary Amlogic format, not the same format we've ever used) directly to the internal NAND/eMMC storage. It's for flashing factory images onto a device. Most images will be Android, but it restores the factory u-boot, which negates any changes that other boot scripts have done to the boot environment.
So what you mean is you have to connect the box to a pc with usb burn tool but it's not necessary to flash anything in order to fix uboot?
..maybe you better try using separate card for testing alphas!?..if all things which you want/need are working, then think about install (or use card as daily driver)..
True i knew it was risky and i have an rpi which i wont update until my x2 is good again
I didn't mean to complain, just a word of warning to my fellow experimenters.
NB: Team Kodi will bring forward the v19 release to get the hugely disruptive Python3 change into public view and the ETA on first alpha is within the next month as Python2 will be EOL on 1st Jan. The GBM/V4L2 work we are championing on ARM platforms will not align with the reschedule so v19 will be an alpha/beta release for ARM devices and v20 becomes the target, on similar dates to the original v19 schedule.
hopefully the migration of the add ons will go quick. Right now still a lot of add ons incompatible, most notably inputstream.adaptive
but good the transition is going on now
Had the great idea to update today (not that i hadn't been warned)...
Inputstream adaptive and zattoo pvr are incompatible.. lets see how long it will take.
Note to self: don't update the rpi3 if you want to watch zattoo
Im having jernej s nightly on my x2 together with the zattoo pvr client. It's working quite well.
Stable allwinner builds don't exist yet, as the allwinner bsp kernel is stuck at around 3.4 no more usable nowadays.
Stable builds on mainline kernel are still a while away.
No, not yet. I plan to add remote mapping for Beelink X2 remote soon, though. But even then I'm sure you can change it manually.
As soon as this happens I will find out and report.
vitalogy you're right, I grabbed remote for Beelink X2 by mistake. This just proves that a lot of boxes come with generic remotes. Anyway, I'll open PR soon (I'll update Beelink X2 too).
Does this affect my x2 with a different remote too? Im using a remote from hauppauge, as this suits my needs much better than the crappy beelink remote.
When playing..in video settings Video Mode set to Normal...on phone leave auto rotate enabled when recording video and it shouldn t be upside down.Also for best phone videos hold the phone horizontally/landscape.
I will check what it is set to, I suppose as I never changed anything it should be on normal?
Unfortunately your tips at how to take videos are not really helpful, as I'm already having those videos, cant rerecord them with different settings/orientation of the camera...
Also the Nexus 5x as an example has the CCD mounted upside down to ease routing of the PCB. once I found out about this, I tried to hold the phone accordingly (very counter intuitive). But as a matter of fact Android doesn't seem to give a dime about video orientation and seems to handle all with metadata. If played back on Android all those videos are not distorted either. Also the preview thumbnails take the correct orientation/aspect ratio into account.
So to come to a conclusion the way those videos are recorded might be suboptimal, but nevertheless they seem to contain enough information to be displayed correctly. So there is a chance to fix it player side.
I tried playing videos recorded with several Android phones from several vendors on a recent test image of LE (for allwinner H3) and videos shot upright are mostly 90° tilted, often wrong aspect ratio. Horizontal videos are upside down (mostly with my old nexus 5x which had the sensor built in the different way round) As far as I found out Android seems to just save the video any format it feel like and then fills into the meta data how the player has to rotate the content.
Funnyly the thumbnails are shown correctly on LE, as opposed to the video itself.
Is this a known issue?
Is someone working on this?
Can I help out somehow? With sample videos maybe?
Thanks for your support.