Openelec Build for OPI PC and 2 now with HW decoding

tkk

jernej replied at 2016-2-26 05:47
Help would be really apreciated. However state about CEC is very bad, unfortunately. Driver, which ...

OK, I did not realize the situation is so bad, I tought cec could be made available as character driver etc. Emulating / bitbanging the protocol would probably work, since cec is slow one-wire bus, but if there is not even a place where to start and no documentation at all then it's not looking good.

By the way, what is this repository? https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/linux-sunxi
Where is the current kernel for Opi PC?

jernej

tkk replied at 2016-2-26 17:27
OK, I did not realize the situation is so bad, I tought cec could be made available as character d ...

That repository is a bit old and I think doesn't have H3 support. If you want the sources which OpenELEC use, you can use this source https://github.com/jernejsk/OpenELEC-OPi2/tree/master/storage with these patches https://github.com/jernejsk/Open ... ts/H3/patches/linux

jernej

Dima replied at 2016-2-26 13:16
Build with all the commits till the 26st (till commit 8189147)
https://mega.nz/#F!Lw5TBAwC!osUTNIj9z ...

For which board? Also the revision number is a bit high...

jernej

Dima replied at 2016-2-26 14:47
I managed to get Acestream working on OpenELEC with the OrangePi.
You can find the file here:
https: ...

Lets not talk about plugins which are on kodi's blacklist: http://kodi.wiki/view/Official:Forum_rules/Banned_add-ons

Dima

jernej replied at 2016-2-27 02:54
For which board? Also the revision number is a bit high...

Sorry, forget to mention: OpiPC.
And revision is r1 (new build), the high number is the latest commit "number" in github.

Dima

jernej replied at 2016-2-27 03:00
Lets not talk about plugins which are on kodi's blacklist: http://kodi.wiki/view/Official:Forum_ru ...

Ok, as you wish. I do however think that the blacklist is a bit extreme, but understandable to sustain Kodi. However, it's completely ok to discuss it on OpenELEC forums and other forums. So it's a bit of a gray zone.
I do however think, it's useful to know for the people who would like to use Acestream... Until now the only possibility was to use Android image. Moreover: there's nothing illegal about Plexus or Acestream. It's just like Transmission, libtorrent, torrent2http, ... It's just a stupid plugin to facilitate a certain "codec".

I do get that there are shady uses for it, but it's there practically for every addon in Kodi. It's on the blacklist just because Kodi wants to distance itself from the addons because they don't want to be associated with it (and becoming illegal). Which I totally get.

WereCatf

I just tested jernej's OpenElec (I built it from latest git) and I am surprised it works so well. Alas, playback is jittery, framerate doesn't stay stable, and I can't seem to be able to fix that. I already tried enabling vsync and syncing playback to display, I changed cpufreq to performance and it's still no better :/

Dima

I think it depends on the source file. I'm using Openelec for a long time now, and never had any playback issues.

seba1970

WereCatf replied at 2016-2-29 21:13
I just tested jernej's OpenElec (I built it from latest git) and I am surprised it works so well. Al ...

build 2016.02.03 works very well smooth video playback  newer builds are  far from smooth , sometimes very jerky

jernej

WereCatf replied at 2016-2-29 14:13
I just tested jernej's OpenElec (I built it from latest git) and I am surprised it works so well. Al ...

What kind of videos do you watch? If you watch interlaced videos, this is known problem.

I decided to try to use open source libvdpau implementation instead of closed binary blob CedarX. Hopefully this will solve some of the issues. However, due to removal of X11 dependency and probably writting HW renderer from scratch, this will take some time. Any help appreciated