Posts by escalade

- So users absolutely wanting PCSX2 and Flycast OIT can run Xwayland, so what?

- Have you even tried the GL backend of beetle-psx? It's absolute crap, and any CPU from the last 15 years will handle PSX in software, which is the best choice these days. I have Vulkan support, but still use software for PSX.

- Don't know why you're going on about Weston, I use Sway/wlroots as mentioned. This will be ported to the XU4 as well, as soon as Panfrost is ready.

- AMD support is simply a matter of compiling it in. Coming later.

No idea what "points" you are trying to prove, I'm here because you stated that I don't care about the average LE user and posted misinformation about Wayland. Craving attention my ass... I'm not the one with a "Reborn Remix" build trying to be me, and actively trying to misguide users. Stay in your lane son and you won't be embarrased again.

Oh well, off to do some actual gaming. On Wayland of course, I'll post some videos for you later so you can see how it looks.

You don’t want to back up your statements that’s fine, I didn’t expect anything else. Go ahead and download my build if you want to know how I deal with things. Taking my users for fools, wow.... well they can laugh all the way to my download area and enjoy today.

Anyone can scroll up and see your own user bringing it up and your replies which include blatant lies and childish remarks. So yeah....

"Craving attention" because I won't tolerate you talking trash? The "average LE user" is asking you for Wayland support, and your response is to talk trash about my work? Don't know who's the attention craving one here.

Yes, the version bumps were just that, version bumps, but you seem to be very proud of PR'ing them since you keep bringing them up. Anyways, feel free to try my Wayland image with working audio, refresh rate switching and everything I know you crave (you were very interested earlier I recall).

Now put your money where your mouth is or simply shut up and keep doing whatever it is you are doing and leave me in peace.

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This is nothing new & the way Kodi 19 will handle it. But since Nvidia GPUs use EGLStreams you'll rip out support for them. Once there is a LE10 release then I'll switch over too but as long as it's LE9.x it makes no sense to make this dick move and kick out all Nvidia users.

Well yeah, unless you simply add support for EGLStreams (not very hard).

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As I said the topic came up in may and because of this PR X11: remove vdpau and glx by lrusak · Pull Request #16057 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub I updated & fixed Wayland in LE master in the first place.

Yep, you sent your PR with Wayland version bumps soon after I added them in my fork when I did testing for my XU4. Great job on bumping package versions as usual. I'm not using Weston so stop acting like you're some kind of Wayland pioneer. Where's your Wayland images? All I see is bitching.

You don't want to use Wayland that's fine, no need to spread lies and piss on others work though.

New Wayland build is out just in time for my post #1500:

• Kodi now runs on GBM/KMS (no X server, directly on the framebuffer like on ARM) - this is actually the future of LibreELEC as stated by the team, AFAIK it's also the only way to get HDR to work. Resolution and refresh rate switching working just fine.
• Switched to Alacritty for terminal emulator (I've ported terminology from enlightenment as well, but haven't landed on a final choice yet due to cross compiling issues)
• As RPCS3 seems to have issues with stretching the picture on Wayland, I've added resolution switching to 1280x720 for proper fullscreen gaming
• Polished systemd services for everything to work seemlessly
• Downgraded to 5.3.4 kernel as 5.4 gets a corrupted pagetable due to ply-image
• Mesa 19.3-git
• The usual libretro core updates

The wayland build is Intel only for now. Download here.

It's come to my attention that certain voices aren't very happy with my progress (envy?), apparently it means that I "don't care about the average LibreELEC user" (TALEU for short). Well, "TALEU" used to be stuck with Kodi and not much else. Oh, you have a brand new HTPC and wanted to run some games, or run a transmission server as well? Sorry, no can do. Did you want Plex? A browser? Spotify? Sorry, no can do. "Death of a thousand cuts", have been the usual response to such things when requested on the forums by "TALEU". Well, I actually added all those things for "TALEU" and the same voices (or voice?) have greatly benefited from my work without so much as a "thank you". Well, rest assured that everything I add will find their way to other projects as they always do, but after you see it here of course.

There seems to be great concern about PCSX2, well I actually am the one who brought PCSX2 to LibreELEC for the first time, and my docker container is in fact used (or copied) to other projects offering it as well. PCSX2 runs fine in Xwayland which can easily be added (I'll probably add options for it so people can build themselves). Doesn't really add that much to the image, and you don't need to run a full X server, so it's still a win. Oh, and beetle-psx actually have a Vulkan backend, so that only leaves Flycast which benefits from OpenGL for it's "OIT" engine, which isn't all that. It's an OK compromise for now. NVIDIA can support Wayland through EGLStreams, although I don't have such hardware for testing and frankly it's not the best pick for open source gaming these days.

It looks like the future is finally here, as I have a new image ready for testing which is pure Wayland

• Uses Sway (i3 compatible) as compositor
• Proper PAL switching using atomic mode setting
• Kitty terminal emulator
• Qt 5.14 alpha
• Linux 5.4-rc1
• No X11 or Xwayland!

Everything seems to work great, although I haven't done any extensive testing so there might be bugs. Every emulator/core included runs directly on Wayland. PCSX2 is an exception, as it's currently not possible. It can run through Xwayland, but I'd rather not build and include the extra X11 stuff just for that. Hopefully the "Play!" core will mature enough to scrap PCSX2 in the future.

Unfortunately, Kodi does not yet support switching resolution/framerate on Wayland. I will probably compile it against GBM instead for future builds.

Download link here.

Of course I couldn't stop there. Switched to i3 "gaps", the fork that adds spacing to the windows. Also added Compton which is a compositor that can add shadows, transparency etc. Makes the windows look like canvases hanging on a wall. Now multiple windows looks and handles great, which is good for emulators like RPCS3 and Dolphin. Only the skylake image updated for now, it's experimental but works great.

Obligatory screenshot:

h3zwav9.jpg

New skylake build is uploaded with some exciting features, like dumping fluxbox:

• switched to i3 for a modern tiling windowmanager that automatically handles floating windows

• antimicro runs in the background and enables quitting apps with L3+PS (if you have DS4)
• connman_ncurses cli utility for easy connect to wireless (will add it to the ES menu later)
• bluez 5.51
• pulseaudio 13
• vulkan 1.1.123
• latest mesa git
• latest rpcs3 git and now uses openal by default (eliminates stuttering)
• modesetting driver by default for intel again (really the most stable choice)

Some eyecandy:

https://imgur.com/a/takxcnk

https://imgur.com/a/budjjmy

Save your money, for emulation purposes the i5 is more than enough to play any emulator in 3x IR with shaders. During my testing I ran into several bugs with drivers, bios, boot etc (maybe not an issue on Windows). The i5 is as fast as the previous skull canyon NUC and is half the price of the hades canyon.

I exchanged it for an i5 before I got RPCS3 going properly so not sure. It could do the Wii version in 1080p without breaking a sweat though, except for some minor stuttering in menus. I think it will be enough, but don't take my word for it. Quad core is recommended for RPCS3, but then again NBA Jam is pretty lightweight.

If you're serious about emulation though, might as well go for the i5. Double the cores and not a big price difference. The i5 absolutely flies, really impressive little box

Check it out, the latest skylake build running NBA Jam: Fire Edition in 1080p on RPCS3. The music is streamed over bluetooth and played through Pulseaudio

Not on the nuc8, but standalone is usually faster than the libretro core. Not much difference when the hardware is powerful enough though.

New skylake build

• Native Playstation 3 emulation with RPCS3 both Vulkan and GL (create symlinks in /storage/roms/ps3 to EBOOT.BIN inside your game folders for ES to pick them up) compiled against Qt 5.13.1
• 5.3.0-rc8 kernel
• LLVM 9.0.0-rc4
• Mesa 19.3-git (OpenGL 4.6 compliance for Intel)
• Added fix to make Xorg work with Intel CPUs with AMD RX Vega discrete GPU like the Hades Canyon NUC8
• Updated iwlwifi-firmware
• Added genesis-plus-gx
• Set Intel P-state governor to performance when launching games
• The usual core updates

Dolphin libretro is smooth as butter in 1920x1080 on the NUC8's, having a blast with this again

Will clean my latest work up and commit some changes soon, consider the skylake build experimental. It doesn't have nvidia drivers included either.

Is anyone using Xenia? Wondering if it's worth it to include it yet.

You've provided no logs and no way to reproduce, so no idea.

I've spoiled myself with a new NUC8i3BEK, so it's time for some new images with some focus on Generic. There's a skylake compiler optimized build in the "skylake" folder as well.

Changelog:

• trimmed image size quite a bit by removing some retroarch xmb themes and not including mame2003 in the generic build
• added fuse-libretro for zxspectrum emulation
• included nintendo wii iso tools wit and dec-decode
• inputstream.adaptive 2.4.2
• mesa 19.2.0-rc2 with LTO
• nvidia 435.21
• updated kernel/iwlwifi firmware
• include slang-shaders for generic images and glsl-shaders for rpi/xu4
• docker 19.03.1
• enabled dolphin-libretro bluetooth support
• xfsprogs/btrfsprogs 5.2.1
• hardcode default frontend in the image properly

New images uploaded:

- kodi 18.4
- latest stable kernel 5.2.11 for xu4/rpi2/generic
- proper pal/50hz switch for amiga and c64 on xu4, needs 720x576@50hz (should work for most screens)
- flycast is now built from the wince branch
- activated yabasanshiro dynare
- added castagnait repo (for netflix addon)

x86_64 does not imply 32 bits, it's the name of Intel's 64 bits architecture. The only way to get it running would be to manually compile LibreELEC as 32 bits, which would require quite a lot of hacking (I know because I've done it before). RPi for $35 seems like a better option.