I'm considering changing policy regarding boards with less than 1 GiB RAM - they would be accepted in main repo and thus nightly images would be available. However, support for them would be provided by community - I will ignore issues reported on those boards.
What do you think?
It's good news. Personally, I use OPi One with the MythTV pvr plugin (for playing HEVC DVB-T2 recordings) and it usually works reasonably satisfactorily.
Can you share the file LibreELEC-A20.arm-9.80-nightly-20200426-65f515b-bananapi ?
AVC is just another name for H264. XviD is not HW decoded (see OP).
Thanks for the reply, yes, it was for information only. BTW this XviD plays on this very old firmware smoother than on the latest.
This is extremely old build and many packages were updated from that time. I guess some kernel change is at fault but I have no clue which one.
I've tried to build some newer firmware myself, but this old one works best for me (except for HD DVB-S2 playback).
It seems VPU runs out of memory. A20 can use only part of memory for video decoding. What is the resolution of your video? Can you test smaller and/or just another videos?
Latest try with LibreELEC-A20.arm-9.80-nightly-20201014-74eb09f-bananapi:
Yes, I tested several videos H264 HD, SD XviD, AVC. (XviD videos are also jerky). In general, when I switch from a running video to another, playback switches to that new video, but the image is a still image from the original, only the audio from the new one continues. Same when I jump forward or backward during playback.
Logs on such jump:
First I have to say that LibreELEC-A20.arm-9.80-nightly-20200426-65f515b-bananapi (oldest I have) works quite well. These test videos mostly play well (H264 SD HD) I can jump in a video, switch to another video during playback. There is only a problem: DVB-S2 H264 Full HD channels have delayed audio and fail after a while. O.K playback is on H264 SD channels.
Hello
on my bananapi A20 I now have a problem playing h.264 movies.
After some time of playback (~ 1 minute) the screen freezes, but sound continues.
Probably not but better to have a lot of drops than no image at all. Anyway, this is actually needed functionality because not all socs support all request api ffmpeg codecs (speaking more broadly, not just allwinner but also others, like rockchip).
Well, I would expect at least the sound to be fine, if not the picture.
Please see first post:
O.K.
Hi to all.
I'm testing LibreELEC-A20.arm-9.80-nightly-20200629-d0f7212-bananapi on my Banana Pi and there's a problem with hevc playback. Only a still image from the movie appears on the screen, the sound is played for a while, and then there is silence.
Thanks in advance to the wise members for their explanation and possible correction.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jkoigg2ckogkas6uullzmyn6_qxis-ea
First of all, thank you for working on this. I've got an OrangePi 3 and I loaded nightly-20191015 on to see how it worked and was pleasantly surprised that it seems quite good. I loaded the mythtv plugin and found it works fine with this image.
I did notice that LibreELEC will go to sleep or kind of turn off if the TV is turned off. But it doesn't wake up correctly. I'm sure there's a setting to prevent it from turning off that I haven't found yet. I'm hoping that the waking up will be fixed eventually.
I wanted to try the newest nightly, so the other day I got nightly-20191118 and upgraded by putting the image into /storage/.update and rebooting. Apparently the mythtv plugin is not compatible with this version. Reading other posts, it appears I will need to build it myself if I would like to keep using it with the newer images. I'm looking forward to upcoming BT support on this platform.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jkoigg2ckogkas6uullzmyn6_qxis-ea
Or maybe https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dyaiqol6jwxzgtiygj2oexmlkcluubik
For anyone who cares:
I tried to compile LE from master repo (kernel 5.2.6) for A20 banana pi with no working eth. I added
CONFIG_CLK_SUNXI=y
CONFIG_CLK_SUNXI_CLOCKS=y
and:
CLK_SUNXI_PRCM_SUN6I=y
CLK_SUNXI_PRCM_SUN8I=y
(CLK_SUNXI_PRCM_SUN9I=y
(to enable the legacy clock drivers)
to linux.arm.conf and Ethernet is working well now but video playback poor, as detected before.
