Posts by chewitt

Quote from mozzarella

Hi, I Am on 10.85 / S912 i can see strange behavior but on Play screen only. Menu like information, bookmarks etc. looks duplicated (with small offset). External subtitles are also affected.

Known problem where something in the OSD plane isn't calculated correctly. If you, e.g. put the debug overlay on/off/on/off .. each time you make it visible it will shift by 1px. It's may be related to the pink line (also 1px suggesting something is misaligned) but figuring out that kind of thing in code needs someone that can read the code better than me. It's in the list.

Quote from Napsty

Any plans for getting the LE 10.x ported to these old Amlogic devices?

No plans for LE10 because we are working on LE11, see: Official LE Test Images for Amlogic (Kodi-20)

NB: Currently for S905 and newere and will extend to Meson 8 devices in the future hopefully. No plans for Meson6 (WP1).

Quote from hieppo

HEVC seek does not work properly on all files. Could be bad encoder but those same files seek correctly using Linux mpv and other players, so I am not sure if it is the files.

I find HEVC to be "good, but not perfect" and it does have glitches, but the driver is unfinished and is not upstream so that's to be expected. If other players work better they are probably using software decode because it's not possible to use hardware decode without a ton of patches right now.

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dtb_name=/dtb/meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb

overlays="dtb/wifi-rtl8189etv.dtbo"

bootargs=boot=UUID=0501-1634 disk=UUID=c94acf29-6106-4451-b782-057e2248491d quiet systemd.debug_shell=ttyAML0 console=ttyAML0,115200n8 console=tty0

hieppo Please make a new SD card from https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/LibreE…85.0-box.img.gz and then edit uEnv.ini to include an "overlays" line as above. It's not clear to me whether vendor u-boot supports overlays, or if the path to the overlays is correct, so if nothing magically works edit to drop the "dtb/" prefix and move the "wifi-rtl8189etv.dtbo" file to the root folder of the SD card. As usual, share a "dmesg | paste" URL so we can see if anything happened or not?

Did you add a source for the drive?

The purple line only shows up when playing SD media (under 1080p) correct? .. and do you know which Realtek chip?

Quote from hieppo

BTW, was it intentional for the boot logo to be already on Kodi Nexus? I am assuming the Kodi is Matrix version?

Intentional, as I don't see much point in tracking Matrix since it's not the codebase I'm looking to use in the next release.

You will probably have some issues with video decode still. We attempt to reserve 896MB CMA which is needed to handle 4K on boxes with 2GB or more RAM. However this allocation fails on 1GB devices so the kernel falls back to 256MB which is probably too little. The vdec driver needs a major rewrite/refactoring (splitting into two drivers) to fix that - known but unlikely to happen anytime soon.

I still don't see any attempt to probe WiFi though (at least BT failing is explained by it not being present) so I have to assume the box does not have a Broadcom module. Realtek is most likely but I'll have to have a think about how to handle that.

Known problem that isn't fixed yet.

Quote from loki7777

Which build could i use with s905x3 X96 MAX Plus? LibreELEC-AMLGX.arm-10.85.0-box.img.gz ?

Correct. Edit uEnv.ini to use the "meson-sm1-x96-air-gbit.dtb" as it's probably a close match. SM1 boxes have some known issues with hardware decoding so if you hit lockups you'll need to disable it (DRMPRIME on, Hardware Decode off).

I found the stray patch cum bad commit that broke hardware decode .. so the next nightly that's build (scheduled for 5th Jan AM GMT) will have working hardware decode again. Impatient users can grab something from https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/ .. there are no functional improvements so GXBB/GXL/GXM are working nicely and newer devices still have some issues, but that's an improvement on black screens and no video everywhere.

NB: I have added a possible workaround (not fix, workaround) for borked USB ports on Odroid C2 and the meson-gxl-s905x-p212 device-tree may now have working BT/WiFi .. I'm still not near my usual test devices so you'll have to test for me.

Happy New Year!

As a developer I don't push zipped/rar'd/gunziped/xz'd archive files to the repo for people to download, I push source code and GitHub does magic in the background that allows people to download "packaged" sources. As long as nothing changes in the way that GitHub compresses things, we download the same file with the same SHA256 every time. However if GitHub updates the underlying infrastructure to get better compression etc. the file served for any githash can change and the SHA256 will need updating. It doesn't happen often, but it can and does happen occasionally.

No issue with the certificate. Known non-issue with website linking to http URLs and/or https URLs that we have to redirect to http URLs in order for the mirror redirector to work, which needs compleletely upgrading and redeploying .. when someone has free time to do it, which appears to be never since it's been like that for some time now.

Right-click .. save-as

After Googling the box it looks like the M8S-Pro-L has only 10/100 Ethernet. If true, use the Q201 dtb. Hardware decode was working until a big batch of changes landed recently and I didn't figure out what the breaking change is yet. I don't have much time right now (new year, back to work) but it will get spotted eventually.

No.

Create a new SD card using the AMLGX "box" image from https://test.libreelec.tv/ then set the dtb name to use in uEnv.ini and boot/see what works. I'd start with the mecool kiii-pro dtb as most of their boxes seem to be similar hardware.

There is currently an issue with hardware decode in nightlies so you will need to disable it in Kodi playback settings (but leave DRMPRIME enabled) to get video output. Software decoded output should be broadly on-par with the performance of S912 legacy images that had no proper GPU drivers though (good for anything @ 1080p).

NB: You cannot "update" an existing install, the boot process is different with upstream images so it needs to be a clean install.

Odd, it probes the BT modeul but doesn't load. I'll have a poke around in the dts bits. I suspect the GXL box devices in the upstream kernel are a little unloved as the focus has mostly been on SBC board devices.

hieppo It's the dtb. I can see there is no Broadcom WiFi device in the dtsi under the &sd_emmc_a; node:

linux/meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dts at master · torvalds/linux

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linux/meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtsi at master · torvalds/linux

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So assuming the box has a Broadcom WiFi chip? it should be trivial to add. If you use the p212 dtb it should have working BT? - share the URL generated by "dmesg | paste" when using the p212 dtb and I can see.

Fixed in https://github.com/LibreELEC/Libr…31039a7c3586a84