Posts by lumpi

    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.

    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?

    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

    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).

    jernej

    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.