Posts by chewitt

  • [LE 11] Wetek play 2

    You can boot using the "box" image after setting the dtb name to use in uEnv.ini .. AND .. doing the toothpick/reset process to force u-boot to reload our boot scripts from the SD card. This will prevent CE from booting .. unless you repeat the toothpick/reset to force u-boot to reload their boot scripts. You cannot simply swap SD cards to swap OS.

  • Install to partion not whole disk

    This has been debated in the past. It would be nice, but when things fcuk up (and they will, frequently) we become the bad guys who killed some users Windows install with pictures of their first-born child, favourite dead dog, etc.

    Not supporting it, ever, sidesteps the issue, so 110% never happening.

  • Official LE11 Test Images for Amlogic (Kodi-20)

    Quote from tomaszc

    Do you know anything more about this company and this project?

    Thank you for your reply. Good luck on the triathlon.

    The company is bone-fide and has a long history of funding open-source development (often without much recognition) and the owner is someone we/me chat with regularly. I also know the name of the developer who's allegedly doing the work. However, until I see some actual code/output in a repo somewhere there's nothing to be done.

  • Meson 8* Lives!

    WeTek Core(1) will not boot beyond vendor u-boot into Linux unless you limit the kernel to a single CPU in boot args (at which point the box isn't much use). It's a known issue for that box and something related to the box using OP-TEE (BL32). Other S812 devices will boot normally (not that AMLMX has much support for boot currently).

    dtech images are a better option, although K18 is starting to date now.

  • ODroid C2 and HEVC with LE 11.0.1

    There's some kind of buffer exhaustion issue and when you start flipping between codecs it ends up in a bad state. The same video that fails will play fine after a reboot. The drivers are unfinished work and haven't really been touched since 2020 so don't expect any changes anytime soon. There is allegedly someone now working on them again; but it's been several months since it was claimed and i'll believe it when I see actual code from the effort. The H264 codec does behave better, but occasional reboots are probably easier to live with than re-encoding a movie collection.

  • Official LE11 Test Images for Amlogic (Kodi-20)

    I'm effectively on hiatus; currently focussed on a new job and preparing for an Ironman triathlon later in the year. There is allegedly someone working on the hardware decoders (funded work from an LE friendly board manufacturer) so if/when that ever results in some interesting code to test in a public repo I'll think about resuming. Until then nightlies should have K21 alpha code and aarch64 kernels.

  • How to undo rm

    If LE was a normal Linux distro you could install testdisk or ddrescue (data recovery tools) but we're not and the amount of "Jumping through hoops" required to work around our packaging limitations will be more effort than re-ripping the movie from original media.

  • Wetek Play, what to do with it?

    1. Forget it, there is zero modern Linux support for Meson 6 hardware and no modern distro's support booting 3.10 vendor kernels from 2013 (that were already dated in 2015 when it launched and killed OpenELEC).

    2. It's detected during boot and thus prevents other box vendors shipping product that used the WeTek OS. You can remove it, but then the box won't boot and there's no modern u-boot alternative.

    3. You can run LE 9.2.8 via dtech images, but that's the end of the line for the box, and K18 is on the traliing edge of add-on compatibility these days (not that most authors switched their focus to Python3 based add-ons used from K19 onwards).

    4. Only crazy debugging..

    4. Put LE 9.2.8 on it with TVHeadend server and then use a newer client device to watch TV from it .. or use it with LE 9.2.8 to watch stuff on the same box .. or bin it, there's really isn't anything else it's good for (too slow for retro gaming).

  • USB won't boot

    Quote from account001

    I would be grateful if you tell me what I'm doing wrong.

    Two things:

    a) You hijacked someone else's thread to make a post about a different issue.

    b) Your post is about a distro that I've never booted (and is not LibreELEC).

    In summary: You're seeking help from the wrong person in the wrong forum.

    Удачи /shrug

  • Cheap X96A tv Box

    Use the AMLGX "box" image with meson-gxl-s905w-p281.dtb or meson-gxl-s905w-tx3-mini.dtb defined in uEnv.ini .. P281 is an S905W, which is a cost-engineered S905X. It will be limited to 1080p in LE.