yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dhead666:
Nice work Corey.

Wireless:

* I can now connect to my wifi network, that's WPA2, AES encryption but tested previously also TKIP, 8 long password, visible 6 letters long SSID.

* Performance seems quite nice, briefly tested 720P and 1080P standard bitrate files.

* I'm not sure about this one but it looks like the wireless connection sometimes can act a bit funny, for example when browsing through a nfs share I did get the occasional freeze although nothing wrong when playing video, I didn't looked in the logs.

Live TV:

Nothing changed, still the same deintelacing issue and the AAC bug with Tvheadend.

High Bitrate Videos:

Nothing changed, except for the anomalies it can't play high bitrate files (full BD libraries, BD Remux ...).

USB Audio:

I've tested four USB devices and got different results.

* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1:

Didn't got any audio out of the device (on RC1 it did worked with pops and clicks).

Video was very sluggish when the device was connected.

The log shows that something is definitely wrong in XBMC

http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=107184

* Generic Chinese Stereo Sound Card "3D Sound": ID 1130:f211 Tenx Technology, Inc. TP6911 Audio Headset

Constant additional hiss/static, nothing in the log.

After a quick googling it seems this can be fixed with a asound.conf.

Related log output: http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=107180

* Generic Cmedia Chinese Sound Card: ID 0d8c:000c

Nothing wrong with it.

Test was very short, my guess it will still have the same issue as described with next device.

* Creative Sound Blaster Wireless Transmitter:

This is the one I'm using, audio quality quite nice, nothing wrong with the audio.

I do get once in a while (not very often) some hiccup like a very short freeze (maybe millisec), nothing in the log, my guess is that the fault is not with the sound card and isn't audio related but is due to temporary high cpu utilization.

Of course tested with wired analog output (as with wireless some packets can be lost)

My bottom line about USB audio is:

* For stereo sound device it look to be working o.k. but I will loved to see this become perfect (the cpu usage issue, if I'm right),

* Suround card aren't usable but I'm not sure if this feature is needed as we got HDMI and SPDIF already.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] maormark:
First I want to say that the version you built (the last test build 2013.11 amlogic)

works well and fast

.

there is a problem in some plugins I usually use. this following plugins:

gozlan.me , seretil , wallaNew , xbmc.subtitles.hebrew <-- (didn't work on RC1 as well)

These plugins are Israelis plugins so you probably do not recognize them, they work well on matricom Firmware 1.1.6

and Beta Linux Build - 27NOV (freeze a lot),

but...

your built works much much better !!!

So if you can check out these plugins I've included links to them:

https://github.com/cubicle-vdo/xbmc-israel/tree/master/plugin.video.gozlan.me

https://github.com/cubicle-vdo/xbmc-israel/tree/master/plugin.video.seretil

https://github.com/cubicle-vdo/xbmc-israel/tree/master/plugin.video.wallaNew.video

http://mirrors.xmission.com/superre...hebrew/script.xbmc.subtitles.hebrew-4.5.1.zip

You can find those extensions in fusion source (http://www.xbmchub.com/blog/2012/04/24/fusion-easy-addon-installation-for-xbmc/)

then go to fusion -->world --> hebrew-->thewiz and xbmc-israel (this is a repo then you install the specific addons)

How do I pull the LOG file to the sdcard?

will it help you? because I can not install any of specific addons - it says broken

Thanks in advance.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] braders2k:
Hi,

Thanks for update on test build, so would you say its stable for daily use?

Thanks,

Braders
[Miscellaneous Android Development] maormark:
Installing this file:

www.hensa.ac.uk/sites/addons.superr...lresolver/script.module.urlresolver-2.1.2.zip

Solve the problem for all extensions except one --->xbmc.subtitles.hebrew

(http://mirrors.xmission.com/superre...hebrew/script.xbmc.subtitles.hebrew-4.5.1.zip)

croniccorey It would be nice if you could add the file to your next build. Thank you.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dhead666:
It's working quite nice for me, except strange temporary freezes while browsing through nfs share with WIFI connection (LAN works flawlessly and the WIFI wasn't usable for me on RC1),

Keep in mind that I didn't really tested addons.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] heham:
my box have only 11 keys ,this is my box's remote.conf

key_begin

0x57 116 ;power

0x43 103 ;up

0x0A 108 ;down

0x06 105 ;left

0x0E 106 ;right

0x02 97 ;ok

0x16 125 ;menu

0x47 102 ;home

0x4F 15 ;back

0xFF 104 ; vol+

0x5D 109 ;vol-

key_end

i put it in but only power,up,down,left,right keys worked and right,the others can not work

how to fix it?

thanks

i fix it myself
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fremar:
Would this work on a Tronsmart Prometheus Amlogic M6?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dhead666:
[MENTION=700291]croniccorey

Is the build missing the tz database ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] maormark:
can't change the timezone it's locked on 0 or -1.

It seems like a bug
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dhead666:
Can anyone confirm that DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD passthrough works under Linux ? (sellers claim it works under Android).

[MENTION=3484100]croniccorey[/MENTION]

Is there any changelog to the kernel ?

Do you know what is changed with the latest Amlogic release 2013-12-27 of 3.0.50 ?

p.s.

Did you seen these DVB devices ? they look like they are coming from the same OEM manufacturer so maybe they will work with the Linux build for the g18ref.

I saw that Amlogic included DVB drivers but I'm not sure if these drivers are compatible with DVB-V4L (at least in the past with kernel 2.6 and M3 I read that drivers were'nt compatible with DVB-V4L).

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Andr...ver-XBMC-preinstalled-Amlogic/1586058516.html

http://www.aliexpress.com/store/pro...MI-WIFI-TV-Receicer-3D/613484_1605984578.html
[Miscellaneous Android Development] heham:
dev: size erasesize name

mtd0: 00800000 00200000 "logo"

mtd1: 00800000 00200000 "aml_logo"

mtd2: 00800000 00200000 "recovery"

mtd3: 00800000 00200000 "boot"

mtd4: 40200000 00200000 "system"

mtd5: 20000000 00200000 "cache"

mtd6: 10000000 00200000 "backup"

mtd7: 8c600000 00200000 "data"

mtd8: 00060000 00001000 "bootloader

mtd9: 00010000 00001000 "ubootenv"

modify and it worked,but can not save the config,if adjust sth then power off ,sometime it will save the config sometime not,if saved next time can not start up,wipe the data and cache it can start up ag
[Miscellaneous Android Development] daddylicious:
Almost the same as a bluetimes mx5.

Maybe it can adapted to run on that box aswell. Any body any pointers how to do this ? Or willing to do it :D
[Miscellaneous Android Development] maormark:
Another bug mute button does not work.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] croniccorey:
Its pre-alpha I have a lot to do still please be patient and if you know what's wrong why don't send me a PM and help me out.

That bug is noted clearly on the xbmc fourms and it is due to this build of XBMC, actually due to a buffer being to small and latancy is to low for our devices.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] coromi52:
I went to Debugging but cannot capture. I have the china MX. I tried reloading it and had same outcome. It sees the wifi,I put the password and it times out and will not connect. Not sure how to capture. Thank you
[Miscellaneous Android Development] croniccorey:
Not a problem, thanks for trying to grab the dmesg I'll do testing on wifi later and start trying to sort it out.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] croniccorey:
sure but by PM please, The bug i think it is was fixed upstream but the patch was not applied to this source yet i am compiling with the fixs now so ill know soon and if it indeed fixs it i will be posting v0.03 within the week but id like to fix more first.

thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] awaldram:
Posting code part from PM as :eek: becomes smiley :laugh:

15:52:04 T:1376064608 INFO: CDVDPlayerVideo - Stillframe left, switching to normal playback
15:52:04 T:1376064608 DEBUG: CAMLCodec::eek:penDecoder
15:52:04 T:1376064608 DEBUG: CAMLCodec::eek:penDecoder video_rate exception
15:52:04 T:1376064608 DEBUG: codecid_to_vformat, id(28) -> vformat(2)
15:52:04 T:1376064608 DEBUG: codec_tag_to_vdec_type, codec_tag(27) -> vdec_type(0)
15:52:04 T:1376064608 DEBUG: CAMLCodec::eek:penDecoder hints.fpsrate(50), hints.fpsscale(1), hints.rfpsrate(50), hints.rfpsscale(1), video_rate(3844)
15:52:04 T:1376064608 DEBUG: CAMLCodec::eek:penDecoder hints.aspect(1.777778), video_ratio.num(1), video_ratio.den(1)
15:52:04 T:1376064608 DEBUG: CAMLCodec::eek:penDecoder hints.orientation(0), hints.forced_aspect(0), hints.extrasize(119)
15:52:04 T:1376064608 DEBUG: Unknown avcC version 0
15:52:04 T:1376064608 DEBUG: CAMLCodec::SetSpeed, speed(1000)
15:52:04 T:1376064608 DEBUG: [write_header] write_bytes: 65536, len: 0, pkt->hdr->size: 4740161
15:52:04 T:1376064608 DEBUG: [write_header] write_bytes: 65536, len: 65536, pkt->hdr->size: 4740161
15:52:04 T:1376064608 DEBUG: [write_header] write_bytes: 65536, len: 131072, pkt->hdr->size: 4740161
15:52:04 T:1495266400 NOTICE: Thread CAMLCodec start, auto delete: false
[Miscellaneous Android Development] awaldram:
Hi good news and bad news

Good news xbmc is less likley to hard lock, whereas previously it was 100% playing BBC HD or Ch4 HD streams its now more like 1 in 7

Bad new still BBC1 HD, BBC2 HD and CH4 HD are black screen with audio consistent 100% of the time.

Though if you stop start genrall fiddle about and don't induce a hard lock you can get a frame to appear but the video never approaches working.

Thinking about it as ITV HD plays fine I think whats hapening is HW assisted playback is not being triggered for these sources.

These are standard raw recording streams from Freeview and FreeSat.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] croniccorey:
Ok i have not watched any live streams so i try and see what happens
[Miscellaneous Android Development] awaldram:
They don't have to be live they can be recorded the results are the same.

OT your new build appears snappier and more responsive good improvment.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] croniccorey:
grab a log please and ill look at it later tonight.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] lexi81:
Thanks! Will be testing tonight. I'm running kostya4000's build right now. I'll test MKV's with know problems, if the problem occurs again I'll post a log.

I don't know what kind of splash you have implemented? I put my own splash in userdata, but it would be nice to have a good bootimage as well. Kostya4000's build has an androidgadget.co.uk image, which I don't really like. The Jaybob build from matricom.net forum has a lo res powered by xbmc image which I also don't like.

Here's my splash: link I actually removed the text 'future of..... "
[Miscellaneous Android Development] croniccorey:
Thanks, boot image will be changed but I would like to work more on functionality first.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] lexi81:
Did a quick test and erronous scenes play ok now. Will report after longer view time.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tdx3000:
Thanks for the build,

I softbricked my device, now i can't even flash the stock firmware back on it keep say "installation abort" in recovery.

I have another working one, my question it's possible to dump the data from the working on and write it onto the broken one using serial.

If so what are the command use to dump and write all the partitions.

Thank you
[Miscellaneous Android Development] croniccorey:
You can try this

http://matricom.net/how-to-recover-...put-blank-screen-with-blue-light-on-midnight/
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mbtsm:
good work

NFS work great

i have only one problem example.srt > Unknown any idea !!!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mrdegriz:
Anyone tried this with the Gbox Midnight MX2?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] stane1983:
[MENTION=3484100]croniccorey[/MENTION]

Check my commits on github.

You might find something useful there :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] heham:
[root@MX /]# [ 93.599340@1] EXT4-fs error (device data): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:736: group 0, 24120 blocks in bitmap, 24278 in gd

[ 93.604305@1] Aborting journal on device data-8.

[ 93.612665@1] EXT4-fs (data): Remounting filesystem read-only

[ 93.614782@1] EXT4-fs (data): ext4_da_writepages: jbd2_start: 2147483647 pages, ino 15793; err -30

Saving the System Clock time to the Hardware Clock...

Hardware Clock updated to Thu Jan 1 00:07:21 UTC 1970.

[ 149.703217@0] EXT4-fs error (device data): ext4_remount:4330: Abort forced by user

It seems error when mounting ext4-fs.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dhead666:
Today XBMC's devs finally re-added the PVR addons to the nightly Android build.

A quick test showed that the AAC issue with Tvheadend doesn't exist on Gotham (or at least on Android).

I'm positive that the Amcodec used for playing the video, although I didn't looked in the logs, as the crappy deinterlacer of Amlogic bumped the frames around and I checked the cpu usage.

Edit:

Forgot to mention that this was tested with kernel 3.0.8 and I expreience the occasional black screen (which doesn't happen with Linux 3.0.50.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] maormark:
There is a great release p2p-streams addons (sopcast & acetream) to xbmc came today, but the thing it's needed pre installation

some files with Linux operating, croniccorey i'm need your help how to do that...

Here is the guide link from them:

https://code.google.com/p/p2p-strm/w/list

Would be nice if you could insert it to your build.

Thanks in advanced.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] braders2k:
Hows RC2 running guys? Is it stable?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dhead666:
[MENTION=3484100]croniccorey[/MENTION]

I've seen your commit today to AESinkALSA.cpp regarding the sample rates, thanks for giving the audio much love.

Do you believe that all those little but important fixes and tweaks would be pushed some day to XBMC mainline or maybe the effort needed is too large ?

Edit:

I'm trying to look at the code (which is beyond my current knowledge), mainly to figure if the audio decoded in hw or software (ffmpeg) before sent to the DAC as PCM, and it seems to me that AESinkAUDIOTRACK.cpp is still limited to 44100 and 48000kHz and 16bit depth (void CAESinkAUDIOTRACK::EnumerateDevicesEx).

I don't really understand what "m_info.m_sampleRates.push_back()" is doing.

I would much appreciate a little a short explanation.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] wason92:
I suspect the audio is decoded with the CPU, I don't think there's a hardware decoder or DSP on the device, also PCM audio isn't sent to a DAC it is further decoded with ALSA and sent to the DAC.

Is there a way to control the LED.

I looked in /sys/class/ but there's no LED class
[Miscellaneous Android Development] VictorDUA:
2013.11-Amlogic branch

I try to compile 2013.11-Amlogic branch from https://github.com/CoreTech-Development/buildroot-mx_linux/tree/2013.11-Amlogic with mx_linux_g18-mx2_defconfig. It compiles without errors but when I flash my Amlogic 8726-MX nothing: remote-mouse-keyboard (or maybe it's XBMC by yourself) do not work - i can see XBMC on the screen but can't operate it.

Am I doing something wrong ? Thanx.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] croniccorey:
the 2011.13-Amlogic branch defconfigs are out of date and the branch is under development still, stable builds can be done using the 2013.08.1-Amlogic branch until the new branch is ready.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Biatsch:
For atv1200 ir remote all keys working :) my remote.conf

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b3po4acd0c24tjj/remote.conf
[Miscellaneous Android Development] VictorDUA:
Good remux playback Git 20131109-6b406be

Thanx for the answer and for your work.

kostya4000 from http://appletvblog.ru/ compile your code from Git 20131109-6b406be (add russian keyboard patch) and this build play remuxes very good on my Amlogic 8726-MX Cortex A9 Dual core 1.5GHz 1GB RAM 8GB

I upload 3 test files:

The Chronicles of Riddick (2004).mkv 165.8 MB (VC-1 up to 18 Mbps)

https://mega.co.nz/#!zFpXjLaC!Jk6mVSAuEbMmY6gkB87Q8HG7hhcEUDJXc3ZrQlHBM4E

King Kong (2005).mkv 337.1 MB (VC-1 up to 22 Mbps)

https://mega.co.nz/#!aZg1CYTI!MDfoQ0FWiXoR2eqgg81jrh7Uzip7L08rekYb69xiEkE

The Dark Knight (2008).mkv 384.6 MB (VC-1 up to 28 Mbps)

https://mega.co.nz/#!GMZxGRLA!AUaDjWq26W0fyL7J7tGVkCvNaDok8MXtFQrmIOHfwKQ

All of them plays just fine with this (Git 20131109-6b406be) your code but don't with your RC1 and all the next.

He (kostya4000) did not store the original git clone but have compiled build: MX_LINUX-G18REF_MX2REF_GOLD.zip 97.7 MB

https://mega.co.nz/#!qJZgVDhY!PqUoPTb0Zh9Gfp9twX8HxgmHO30Gg0EVE0UYL8bN0o0

Maybe you can find what is changed from 09 november 2013 and "broke" good remux playback. Thanx one more time.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] croniccorey:
Thanks will have a look at it.

[MENTION=535343]all[/MENTION] Coming with RC2 will be official support for the "stvmx" (atv1200, atv520, atv400, atv360 and other variants) also hopefully we will see "g02refDongle" move to official aswell, there will also be DroidBOX iMX6 and Jynxbox builds added to the OP witch are compiled from MX Linux source officially for there supported devices.

Cheers
[Miscellaneous Android Development] lexi81:
Looking forward to it! Thanks for the development!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] freejack2k:
Just about to install this as have given up on Android due to its slowness. One question though

Im using the air fly remote, will this work ok under Linux?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] pinktheater:
Hi guys, I'll be installing this on my friend's Gbox MX2 tonight.

Just to play safe, Corey told me to use the old MTD because the new MTD one has an issue.

I downloaded this file "MX_LINUX-v0.20-G18REF_MX2REF-update.zip", is that the one I need or should I install "MX_LINUX-v1.00-RC1-NEWMTD-G18REF_MX2REF-update.zip" which according to the version description in the OP is the build (the other should be beta, right?).

Edit: LOL! Reading the file name i think i just answered myself, but i guess is better to ask xD
[Miscellaneous Android Development] FoneFreak786:
Hi croniccorey, im sure you are aware that there is a wifi problem with all linux builds.

It works fine when first flashing, but if you have ie Wifi running fine, then you connect ethernet (ie to test streaming etc), when you disconnect ethernet it will no longer find or connect to wifi.

If yoyu then flash again it fins the wifi again and connects etc.

Please lete me know if you need me to test anything but other than this issue the build is brilliant!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Bruur:
A Fly Mouse works.

But ... if it is one of those models with a microphone and speaker inside (used for Skype) then the sound will be redirected to the remote after a reboot. And as far as I can see there is no way to correct this under settings in XBMC.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] freejack2k:
Well got it installed and working and got to say great work!!!

Its so much faster than having the box on Android!!

I only have one problem now and thats as im in the uk i cant get 1 Channel, have tried installing the 1 channel fix but that dosent work. On Android i had the private internet access app as i have paid for the vpn for a year.

Is there any way of getting the 1 channel working on the box now?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] wason92:
There's a setting in 1channel that allows you to change the hostname to use. If you find a working 1channel proxy just put it in there.

As it stands there is no VPN client installed on the box.

If you're familiar with linux you could try installing a vpn client yourself.

Hopefully the developer will see it as a useful feature and add openvpn
[Miscellaneous Android Development] freejack2k:
Thanks m8

Yeah would be a very useful feature to add to it in the future.

Any ideas of where best place to look for a working 1channel proxy is?

Still can't get over how much faster and smoother it is now compared to Android. Like having a totally different box!! If i can just get round 1channel it will be perfect!!

EDIT

Tried creating a proxy however they all seem to be blocked in the UK at present, if anyone has any ideas on how to get 1channel working i would appreciate it if they could post.

[MENTION=3484100]croniccorey[/MENTION] VPN would be a very,very useful feature on future release!!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Bruur:
Composite video output doesn't work

I noticed that under Linux the video output using the AV out cable doesn't work on older TV's. After inserting the yellow Composite video plug in an older CRT TV, the signal is all garbled up.

The sound is fine. So far I have not found any work around to fix this, I've tried to lower the resolution in xbmc settings to 720, but that didn't help. I could reproduce this on two MX boxes (G18Ref).

Any idea's?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] lexi81:
[MENTION=3484100]croniccorey[/MENTION] Will there be a Gotham build after RC2 is released? I've seen this commit, seems to me this makes things easier? https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/e185a167d1a1197e2fc66fcada84230192c8c70c
[Miscellaneous Android Development] wason92:
If none of the built in domains work you will just have to have a google for 1channel uk proxy, and find one that works.

Once you do you add it to the values string here:

/root/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.1channel/resources/settings.xml

<setting id="domain" type="labelenum" label="Domain"
values="http://www.1channel.ch|http://www.letmewatchthis.ch|http://www.1channel.ag|http://www.primewire.ag"
default="http://www.letmewatchthis.ch"/>

So it would read

values="http://www.1channel.ch|http://www.letmewatchthis.ch|http://www.1channel.ag|http://www.primewire.ag|http://new.domain.com"

Then activate it under the misc settings in the addon settings

You may also want to try this first

http://www.xbmchub.com/blog/2013/11/22/painless-domain-proxy-fix-for-1channel-in-the-united-kingdom/

Sorry I can't give you a wokring proxy, fortunatly for me primewire.ag isn't blocked by my ISP.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] freejack2k:
Thanks m8

On BT myself and cant get it working using anything at moment. I actually have a 1 year sub to private internet access vpn but no way of using it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MrCeez:
Best thing I did was to put this Linux build on my android box. I'm just amazed by the speed of the box now. Was planning to replace it and have even ordered a raspberry pi already. Lol. It's like a new box on steroids.

Just a couple of questions.

Any plan to implement hdmi cec for it.

Is there a way to power on after powering off? Currently have to hard reset to get it working again

I second the request for a VPN feature

Thank you once again for creating this alternative for us.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] wason92:
[MENTION=3327742]freejack2k[/MENTION]

That sucks man.

if you need to move back on to android to get your VPN I suggest the matricon 1.1.6 version. XBMC works, okish on it the UI is a bit laggy but most videos playback fine.

You should be able to power if off and on just with the button on the remote.

what device are you using?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] freejack2k:
Cheers m8

Ill wait and hope there is a vpn client added to a later release of this firmware as i wouldn't want to go back to Android after using this, this firmware is brilliant to be fair
[Miscellaneous Android Development] braders2k:
Hi, is there anyway of backing the box up so I can restore onto another device? I have the same MX box posted on the 1st post