Openelec Build for OPI PC and 2 now with HW decoding

giaur500 · Published in 2016-7-28 20:37:15

Edited by giaur500 at 2016-7-28 21:13

jernej replied at 2016-7-27 23:44
Only GPIO, USB, IR, SD cards and maybe few other things are covered. What is missing is audio, gpu ...

Nobody working on audio

Nobody working on video. Really superbly

Dima · Published in 2016-7-28 22:23:19

I think it's hopeless. Chinese chip manufacturers are bot interested in keeping up with software support or documentation.

chaszim · Published in 2016-7-28 23:21:08

Edited by chaszim at 2016-7-28 23:35

Dima replied at 2016-7-28 22:23
I think it's hopeless. Chinese chip manufacturers are bot interested in keeping up with software sup ...

Ya think? To go on with your thought, which leaves the rest of us in the dark, as to what we can or, cannot do with the target device.
Or, how to fix it ourselves, when we find somethings gone wrong, or the new changes made just don't work right. It just adds to the frustration.

Dima · Published in 2016-7-28 23:34:41

Well, I think that one day we'll see a complete 4.7 kernel or something. But that will take at least another half a year for just to get it running somehow. And by the time everything will work how it should, H3 will be outdated and irrelevant (for new buyers). But current owners will be happy with the fixes of course.

I've learned my lesson with various Allwinner / Amlogic / Rockchip / MTK chips in the past. They all had this issue of lacking updates and support for chipset. It wasn't even the device manufacturers fault, but rather just a lack of support from the chipset manufacturer.

However, when I bought and Orangepi, I've foreseen these problems and I even have to say that things went better than expected. I expected the stock Android and nothing more. I never expected such a great OpenELEC build which is running so great, which I'm endlessly thankful for.

chaszim · Published in 2016-7-29 00:17:26

Edited by chaszim at 2016-7-29 01:59

Dima replied at 2016-7-28 23:34
Well, I think that one day we'll see a complete 4.7 kernel or something. But that will take at least ...

The OpenELEC here, is the best it can be, because, it's only meant to be playing catchup, with the OpenELEC there. There's no expectations of going beyond that, it boils down to accurately porting code from one branch of Arm to another, while intergrating hardware dependant codes into the mix. To make "This" do "That", same same. But, of course it runs into a few more complications than just that, not all apples taste the same. We can only hope that documentation get's better, before it's lost to obscurity.

jernej · Published in 2016-7-29 01:53:15

giaur500 replied at 2016-7-28 13:37
Nobody working on audio Nobody working on video. Really superbly

That is not true entirely. Video is WIP and from what I understand, it is usable. Main issue here is lack of documentation. HDMI part is missing and code provided by Allwinner is wrongly licensed to be useful. This means dead end - no documentation from which driver can be written and code which exists cannot be reused for the mainline kernel. At the same time, this also means that Allwinner's source code cannot be used for serious project like offical OpenELEC/LibreELEC support for H3. If Allwinner would care, this would be quickly resolved, but it seems that they are hiding HDMI documentation for all newer SoCs for some reason, even though linux-sunxi community already discovered which IP core it is exactly. Unfortunatelly, some cruical info is still missing...

I must agree with Dima here. H3 support is progressing quiet nicely.

PaulR · Published in 2016-8-1 08:29:43

Edited by PaulR at 2016-8-1 08:31

chaszim replied at 2016-7-29 00:17
The OpenELEC here, is the best it can be, because, it's only meant to be playing catchup, with the ...

Couldn't agree more, having bought an Intel z8300 device for 150$ to play videos, along with Orange Pi PC for 15$ with intention to use it as a headless server, I was truly amazed by Jernej's achievements, as I started to use Orange Pi as my main kodi device. He might be willing to upgrade the code with some less significant features, like vsync or cec. But still, his work is really a textbook proof of concept, how software>hardware.

tom123 · Published in 2016-8-1 15:39:18

Hello,
I am working on Orange PI media center. I already setup dac and i2c lcd. But i am trying to run a rotary encoder for menu. Please help

jernej · Published in 2016-8-1 15:50:52

tom123 replied at 2016-8-1 08:39
Hello,
I am working on Orange PI media center. I already setup dac and i2c lcd. But i am trying to r ...

What do you really want to do with rotary encoder? Make it as input device? How do you plan to do that? You should post more info if you want us to help you.

giaur500 · Published in 2016-8-1 19:27:04

Edited by giaur500 at 2016-8-1 19:29

PaulR replied at 2016-8-1 08:29
Couldn't agree more, having bought an Intel z8300 device for 150$ to play videos, along with Orange ...

Yes it's true if you don't care license problems, which means "destroying open source idea". Jernej is doing great work here, but majority of people are disgusted with it, as well as with using that stolen code.