Posts by dtech

Quote from Honiks

Hello dtech. I have a question about assembly for X8-X8H. I own a MINIX Neo X8-H device. It claims 2 GB of RAM, but in the system information I see that the system only detects 1553 MB of RAM. Is this how it should be? or do I need to configure something?

You will be surprised, but you are not the first to ask this. Kodi displays the amount of memory it can use as total memory.

If you run a dmesg, it also becomes clear to you that the device pre-allocates certain memory areas for some built-in purpose.

For example, it looks like this for the M8S-Plus:

[    0.000000@0] physical memory start address is 0x200000
[    0.000000@0] reserved_end is 20afffff
[    0.000000@0]
[    0.000000@0] Total memory is 2046 MiB
[    0.000000@0] Reserved low memory from 0x06000000 to 0x20afffff, size: 427 MiB
[    0.000000@0]        mesonfb0(low)           : 0x06100000 - 0x0c100000 ( 96 MiB)
[    0.000000@0]        mesonfb1(low)           : 0x0c100000 - 0x0c200000 (  1 MiB)
[    0.000000@0]        deinterlace0(high)      : 0x7df00000 - 0x80000000 ( 33 MiB)
[    0.000000@0]        mesonstream0(low)       : 0x0c200000 - 0x0e200000 ( 32 MiB)
[    0.000000@0]        vdec0(low)      : 0x0e200000 - 0x1e200000 (256 MiB)
[    0.000000@0]        ppmgr0(high)    : 0x7bf00000 - 0x7df00000 ( 32 MiB)
[    0.000000@0]        vdin00(low)     : 0x1e200000 - 0x1e300000 (  1 MiB)
[    0.000000@0]        vdin10(low)     : 0x1e300000 - 0x1f300000 ( 16 MiB)
[    0.000000@0]        amlvideo20(low)         : 0x1f300000 - 0x20b00000 ( 24 MiB)

In addition, a few other things require reserved memory, so in the end this will be the amount that can actually be used freely:

[    0.000000@0] Memory: 64MB 16MB 1460MB = 1540MB total
[    0.000000@0] Memory: 1545608k/1545608k available, 31352k reserved, 1250304K highmem

I hope it's clear now.

menn0

It looks like a total mess what you're doing on the console.

Even though the binary doesn't start due to an error, the service is probably still running in the background. That's probably why you can't delete it because it's currently in use. First you need to stop that:

systemctl stop service.tvheadend43

But why do you want to delete this service file? I don't see any sense in this.

And, I don't even understand that symlinking. This will in no way lead to results.

Installing, deleting and updating binary addons without the GUI is a quite problematic.

Quote from menn0

ill install it later tongiht and report back, I hope it all works, or else my wetek simply imploded

Mainly because of the distance, I also recommend another addon, which is also available in my repo, and this is the VNC addon.

With this, you will also see the GUI, provided that there is a display on the box:

https://libreelec.dtech.hu/packages/9.2.0/WeTek_Play/arm/service.system.aml-vnc/service.system.aml-vnc-9.2.0.106.zip

Quote from menn0

Ai, since I run the whole operation through cli, some 60 miles away, that is not an option unforutnately. What is the source of this 4.3 addon? Can I manually mine this repo? A link would be appreciated :))

Unfortunately, the directory index on my server is hidden under the package repositories (due to the search robots), so I can only provide a direct link to the binary at most:

https://libreelec.dtech.hu/packages/9.2.0/WeTek_Play/arm/service.tvheadend43/service.tvheadend43-9.2.0.225.zip

Quote from belaid38

Found this chip es7134lv in my carte mere wp2 I think it has to do with the sound . Could you be the cause of the problem? Because I removed it and turned on the device without it. The device works normally without it, nothing happened. I mean, as before, the sound and display work from Android et LE 9.2 but LE 11 screen DVI and not sound

This is a DAC chip, which is responsible for the stereo analog sound on the A/V output (4-pin 3.5mm Jack), so it was completely unnecessary to desolder it.

I think you should simply change the type of the input in the menu of your display (from DVI to HDMI) and there would be sound immediately.

I also ran into something similar on my 22" LG Personal TV, and when I set it to HDMI, the sound came on as well.

Quote from menn0

Ive updated to the latest compatible tvheadend I could find, which I think is ...

I suggest you look around the LE addons repository first, you will be surprised.

Quote from Tartarus

To me, hanging at 30-40% processor usage doesn't mean that the SoC is weak, but that the decoder is poorly optimized.
Maybe the newer version will bring more performance improvements, or maybe rav1d.

Unfortunately, it is no coincidence that dav1d v1.0.0 was included, and not a newer version. Even for v1.0.0 it was not easy to backport and test the necessary ffmpeg modifications, but for v1.3.0 a lot of things would have to be modified. Since Leia's ffmpeg is an old version, even if I wouldn't call it an impossible task, it's not worth spending so much time, because I don't think the situation would improve much.

However, dav1d v1.3.0 is already present in the LE12 AMLGX image, so if you want to give it a try, I recommend you try that.

Quote from Tartarus

I want to keep using the old device so it doesn't end up in the trash, not buy a new one, if software solution is possible.

No one suggested throwing it into the trash, but compared to H.265, I don't know how much better the AV1 codec really is, especially because the hardware acceleration of HEVC is still available on S905. By the way, software decoding always causes unnecessary heat dissipation for the SoC, and knowing this, I no longer see the point, because it is no longer energy efficient anymore.

Quote from Tartarus

Many thanks for your work. Unfortunately the playback is no better, maybe even worse, like a slide show. During playback, the hardware is not fully utilised at all, with the processor cores running at 30-40%. I suppose it's not govenor dependent, clock speed is constantly at 1500MHz.

In the meantime, I also downloaded a couple of AV1 test videos, and the end result is quite miscellaneous. There are videos that have become smoother with the new version, but there are also videos that are much worse. Unfortunately, updating the software does not help, this SoC is really weak for this task.

Tartarus

Unfortunately, you should not rely on the results of these bencmarks, because these do not say anything about internal architectural changes, such as memory controller, cache size and clock, internal instruction set, etc.

AnTuTu and similar tests will never really show the differences between the functions you need, these will only tell you a ratio value, which is an average of everything. Meanwhile, software media encoding functions may be up to 2 times, but even up to 10 times as fast, if some other function degrades this ratio, which has not changed, or has become weaker compared to the previous one.

I made a snapshot image with the dav1d 1.0.0 and the necessary ffmpeg patch updates, please check if there is any change in AV1 decoding performance:

Index of /snapshots/20231012_dav1d-update_a74c19c/

Thanks for the feedback about the remote control.

In the meantime, I checked, and due to the update of dav1d, I have to change a few more things in some packages (e.g. ffmpeg), which might be a bit more time-consuming. Please be patient, I will try to do it in the next few days if possible.

Quote from Tartarus

Dear dtech,

Can you help me why I cannot set up the remote control for my Beelink Mini MX III (S905, 2G, 1Gb, RealtekWiFi)? I have tried several remote.conf files, including one that worked perfectly with CE 9.2.8. Also with AmRemote and Meson IR files. Of special interest is that it doesn't respond at all to its own remote control, but it does take some of the signals from my Vontar X3.

In addition, I would like to ask what dav1d decoder is in the latest release? I mainly want to play 720p AV1s with it in the future. If not the latest could it be updated somehow?

Thanks for your help in advance.

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Under all my images, only amremote (remote.conf) works, meson-ir is not supported.

I modified the config saved from the MiniMXIII stock Android image, I hope it will work.

Please extract the attachment, copy the remote.conf file to the /storage/.config/ directory and then reboot.

I would definitely like some feedback, whether it works or not. If it works, also about whether all buttons are good.

(The function of the mouse button is different, it opens the info.)

I will investigate the possibility of updating the AV1 (dav1d) codec, currently the original v0.3.1 is in my images.

Although it is worth keeping in mind that none of the SoCs supported by me are capable of AV1 hardware decoding, unfortunately.

Quote from belaid38

upon entry on LE 11.0.3 for WP2 Display mode not find 1080p50hz or 60hz

Then I don't understand why you wrote earlier that you are using LE9.2 when it is not true.

Anyway, from this point on it requires chewitt 's expertise.

Excuse me, but what are you talking about? You wrote at the beginning of your first post:

Quote from belaid38

i am run libreelec 9.2 on wp2

But it never officially released, only I made community images from that branch, see in this topic:

Thread

Legacy v9.2 (LTS) builds for Amlogic S805/S8X2, S905/S912 and all WeTek boxes

Latest version: LibreELEC 9.2.8.19 (Release date: 2025-12-11)

IMPORTANT NOTICE!

Due to the switch to GLIBC v2.34, all binary addons have been rebuilt. The main version of the add-ons has been changed from v9.2.0 to v9.2.1, so after the system update, the binary add-ons will also be updated. In addition, the default transfer protocol in the repository has also changed from HTTP to HTTPS.

NOTICE: If the auto update is enabled, but the installed version is not the latest, then the supported devices…

dtech

February 7, 2021 at 2:33 PM

Please don't be offended, but based on your answers, sometimes I feel like we don't even talk to each other in English.

Umm, okay. You didn't actually answer my question, but still okay.

I am aware of this method, because I also use it, but I tried to approach it from a diagnostic point of view.

But, I don't know anything about CE either (but neither does anyone on this forum), I thought you were using my LE 9.2.8 community version.

However, 120Hz really makes no sense, because HDMI 2.0 is not enough for that, and the S905 only has this HDMI version.

belaid38

If you don't answer, then I think it's already irrelevant for you.

Quote from belaid38

i am run libreelec 9.2 on wp2

but 50hz not found ... i need active this

How do I do that and how do I always add it?

Please log in via SSH into the box and run this, then post the output in a reply comment:

cat /sys/class/amhdmitx/amhdmitx0/disp_cap

Quote from AiRLAC

Thank you for this my fellow Hungarian

Halihó!

The essence of the factory recovery method would be that after pressing the reset button, although the internal uboot starts, if it is not damaged. After that, instead of the kernel it calls the recovery.img from the SD card and then from the USB, finally from the eMMC. (Obviously, it boots what it finds first from the previous sequence.)

It seems that this is either not implemented in upstream uboot for some reason, or maybe some condition is not met, IDK...

There might be a workaround, please rename the recovery.img file on the "unbrick" SD card to KERNEL and try booting it again.

Sasser

Quote from LibreELEC (Nexus) 11.0.3

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AMLOGIC

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To set expectations, here’s the ‘No’ list:

• No support for updates from older LE releases (clean install is mandatory)
• No support for internal eMMC install except WeTek Hub/Play2 and SBC boards
• No support for SSV6501 and S908CS WiFi chips
• No drivers for in-box DVB tuners
• No hardware deinterlacing
• No HDR to SDR tonemapping
• No formal support for newer S905X2/D2/Y2, S905X3, S922X, A311D devices (read below)