Posts by deming1444

Quote from chewitt

WP2 will boot from Android/WeOS using the "box" image or if you overwrite WeOS, using the WP2 board image. All has been written in the wiki docs. Kodi will output the GUI at 1080p max (hard silicon limit) but video can be ouput at 4K with caveats: upstream code for S905 only supports 4K with 8-bit HEVC; because S905 doesn't support 10-bit, 4K H264 was never implemented in upstream drivers, and there is currently no HDR>SDR conversion. I would position any S905 device as 1080p max; you might find some content works at 4K, but most 4K media these days is HEVC/10-bit/HDR so it won't output or look right.

Thanks chewitt. I tried loading LE11 but finally settled on dtech's v9.2.8. One good thing with the WT Play2 is that it automatically enables dual boot and this allows me to use 2 OS unlike other boxes I have. If I can only run a Linux distro on the Play2, that would be the most I can ask from this box.

Quote from dtech

This would only be true if the word "official" was included in your sentence. Otherwise, the v9.2.8 is the latest, which contains the built-in tuner driver.

Thanks for the clarification dtech. I don't really need the tuner drivers, I just want to run Kodi on 4k resolution. I'll give chewitt's suggestion a try and if I find LE 11 on WT Play2 a no go, then I'll run the "latest" v9.2.8. Since I plan to dual boot, I can still run the latest Kodi albeit in the Android enviroment.

Quote from chewitt

Running LE11 from the internal emmc requires upstream u-boot; which that image contains. It cannot boot the box from SD card because vendor u-boot doesn't support the extlinux boot files needed for upstream u-boot. so you boot the box image (so emmc is not in-use) and then download and install the board image (that image) to emmc. Others have grasped that and succesfully installed. You haven't, but that's not really something I can solve. Your weird screen issue is not reported anywhere before so it's probably rare or something odd and unique about your environment. And the AMLGX image is not perfect, nor advertised as being perfect. But it works good-enough for me and my very typical media collection, and likely others have a similar experience (active install numbers are increasing). So sorry it's not for you, but we can't please everyone. I suggest you stick with 9.0.2 or bin the device or run Android or whatever you prefer.

Just asking for clarification here; Can the WT Play 2 run the latest LE using the "box" image or do you need emmc install to use the latest LE on WT Play 2? My Play 2 is on the 3.2 WEOs and runs Kodi in the Android enviroment albeit max resolution is only 1920 X 1080. I want to run Kodi on 4k resolution so I'm hoping to dual boot. If it's NOT possible to run the latest LE using the "box" image, what's the latest LE version that can boot from SD and allow me to run LE at 4k resolution?