So when are the nightly builds of AMLGX supposed to be happening again?
Posts by powerarmour
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Great stuff, what we've all been waiting for really this.
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Why ? If another 3.14 kernel release works why should you care ?
It's not working though, that's the point. Digitial passthrough has been broken for quite some time on the LE 3.14 kernel images.
Obviously the images for the other team are fine, but LE should be about running as close to mainline as possible IMHO.
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Just as a general note for people. The team has made a decision not to release Amlogic (and Allwinner) images as part of LE 9.2 which is currently being built and will see an ALPHA1 release this week. Amlogic mainline has several outstanding technical decisions related to boot and Panfrost has some critical bugs that developers simply haven't had time to look at properly due to current work and family commitments.
That's fair enough, but it's easy to see how folks lose hope with this Amlogic hardware.
I'm just glad we won't see yet another 3.14 kernel release.
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Is there a ELI5 guide yet for installing this on a WP2 w/eMMC?
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Raspberry Pi's are still the gold standard SBC for LibreELEC IMHO, unless you can consider a SFF Intel x86 system.
Latest modern kernel, best stability, no major deal-breaking digital passthrough bugs (like the Amlogic boxes etc), but obviously no 4K capability.
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If you ask me, this is a bug.
It's a 'known' bug though, it's not worth fixing until we get a new kernel that isn't 3.14.
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meson-ir just doesn't work well with the WeTek Play 2 remote unfortunately, it's a shame but at least there are alternative solutions.
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I can fully understand why meson-ir is now the new default, but that doesn't mean that it's not bloody awful in regards to current usability.
The WeTek Play 2 remote for example is almost laughable in how it performs now.
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It's a known Amlogic issue unfortunately fertigp, and something that won't be fixed until probably 9.2 or 10, so your choices are to stick with 8.2.5 or switch to CoreELEC.
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Is there going to be a NAND install .zip available for the WeTek's?
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The sooner the 3.14 kernel images are ditched for Amlogic hardware, the better IMHO.
I rather see a somewhat feature lacking mainline kernel version, than a broken 3.14 release again.
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- There is no sound on HDMI output if audio output is set to HDMI. If audio output is set to analog then HDMI output works.
The main issue with this though is that it borks the digital passthrough if it's set to the 'analog' output. In all honesty I'd avoid the LE9 builds for Amlogic hardware at the moment, you'd be better off sticking to LE8 'which just works' or waiting until the mainline kernel is ready.
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No new kernel for Amlogic hardware yet unfortunately, we're definitely all waiting for that as the current kernel is a mess.
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If you've got an Amlogic box just use CoreELEC instead, at least until LibreELEC switches to the mainline kernel.
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Thats sadly not easily fixable without heavy Kodi patching and starting fixing the known very broken kernel codebase for AMLogic 3.14.
We have decided to not do that for K18 because the new kernel codebase is already at the corner and properly fixing the old one takes too much efforts that are basically wasted after K18 (the old way AML Kernel 3.14 is doing things is getting completely removed for K19). There is also a news article about it Development Update – LibreELEC .
Understood and appreciate the honest info. I'll just have to skip LE9 then on my WP2 as this is a deal breaker for my setup (Optical out to my receiver only), I can get by on 8.2.5 until the mainline kernel versions are hopefully stable.
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Same for me on Wetek Play 2 (and LePotato) with any DTS passthrough playback, it's been a bug since the early Alpha's unfortunately.
Le Potato HDMI passthrough mode, i have no sound for video with 2.0 channels.LE 8.90.009
