Kodi 17 ?

amicrodev · Post time 2017-5-17 00:36:14

jpascher replied at 2017-5-15 18:48
I did give it a tray, on orangepipc+
I got it working with the image he provided. The provided ima ...

Hi,
I uploaded the images for other boxes too, but I think these issues are general and may be caused by network or video drivers not working correctly.
These is a first attempt to build the image with new Kodi, hoping someone else could work with the image; in my blog I treat various topics and the multimedia boxes are one of them. If I have enough time I try to look into these issues.

Regards
amicrodev

jpascher · Post time 2017-5-18 15:48:04

Understand, and i hope you find time to get on with it. I also have the impression that something is just not right with the Network drivers. My be someone can test if a locally saved Video with the network drivers disabled would perform normally. Best regards, Johann

jpascher · Post time 2017-5-18 16:02:54

I also think there is something not as it should be concerning the network. My be someone can save a test video locally and turn off all network to see how it performs without any Network traffic. also look at at this answer here: https://forum.armbian.com/index. ... t&comment=31762
Did not have time to check if the right video driver is in use.

amicrodev · Post time 2017-5-18 19:27:13

jpascher replied at 2017-5-18 16:02
I also think there is something not as it should be concerning the network. My be someone can save a ...

Hi jpascher,
I looked at the logs and found that I missed some patches for the kodi application, so the cedarx drivers are built and available with the image,
but not called by the application.
As soon as possible I try to correct this aspect.

Regards

amicrodev

hostkit · Post time 2017-5-18 21:33:19

Can someone build openelec/libreelec opi with mpv player?

dexter2017 · Post time 2017-6-1 23:01:18

Hi,
Just finished testing Libreelec-8.0. Followed 'amicrodev' instructions and built an image (OpiOne). The instructions are easy and it was fun to compile an image even as it took a really long time to finish.

Noticed as stated by 'amicrodev' no HW acceleration so no HD content can be played smoothly. Found cedarx it was built nicely and is present at the image but for some reason kodi ignores it.
Any advice where to look for the problem ? Tried the log files but not closer to a solution. Maybe someone with a better understanding of Kodi system can point the way.
I am new to this but very interested in finding a solution.

Did some testing with the network it seems to work nicely and its fast 8-9 Mbs to an usb HDD. Will continue to test.

Anyone ?

dexter2017 · Post time 2017-6-4 07:28:53

Hi,
Just an update.
Examining the log files from Libreelec and comparing to Openelec made by 'jernej' i have found that Openelec uses:

01:00:20 T:3034976256  NOTICE: Default DVD Player: dvdplayer
01:00:20 T:3034976256  NOTICE: Default Video Player: dvdplayer
01:00:20 T:3034976256  NOTICE: Default Audio Player: paplayer
3:59:16 T:2766230432  NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 13
23:59:16 T:2766230432 DEBUG: CDVDFactoryCodec: compiled in hardware support: AMCodec:no CedarX:yes MediaCodec:no OpenMax:no libstagefright:no VDPAU:no VAAPI:no iMXVPU:no MMAL:no
23:59:16 T:2766230432 DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Video: cedarx-xxx - Opening
23:59:16 T:2766230432 DEBUG: Codec profile 15 level 5
23:59:16 T:2766230432 DEBUG: CDVDVideoCodecSunxi::OpenDecoder - AVCodecID(13) -> CedarXID(0x10a)
23:59:16 T:2766230432 DEBUG: CDVDVideoCodecSunxi::OpenDecoder - ExtraSize[59]
23:59:16 T:2766230432 INFO: CDVDVideoCodecSunxi: Opened AllwinnerTech CedarX Codec
23:59:16 T:2766230432 DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Video: cedarx-xvid - Opened
23:59:16 T:2766230432  NOTICE: Creating video thread

And Libreelec:

22:16:07.739 T:3037264496  NOTICE: Default Video Player: VideoPlayer
22:16:07.739 T:3037264496  NOTICE: Default Audio Player: paplayer
22:16:08.923 T:3005215648 DEBUG: ffmpeg[B31FF3A0]: [SWR] Using fltp internally between filters
22:16:08.925 T:3015463840 DEBUG: ffmpeg[B3BC53A0]: [SWR] Using fltp internally between filters

It looks like dvdplayer is working very nicely with cedarx but the videoplayer is working in SW mode only.

Is there a way to use dvdplayer in libreelec ?

A part of my log file:
https://pastebin.com/ambkGpPw

RagnerBG · Post time 2017-6-5 03:43:43

I don't think it's that easy to use cedarx. You can compile it, but from what i read (but not sure i understand it well), cedarx is missing code to make it compatible with known render methods. Maybe the newer versions have some improvements into this, i don't know. The author of OpenElec port - jernej, wrote, that he uses GL implementation of cedarx. How he manage to do this, i don't know. Maybe you should check his code in github. If you have some success whit this in future, please share. But you have also be aware of GPL violations of this AllWinner semi working thing, called cedarx.

Dima · Post time 2017-6-5 20:15:37

I'm actually curious. Just a theoretical question:

If we would ignore GPL and so on, and just include closed-source drivers. Would that enable HW accelaration on Kodi17? Probably not?

amicrodev · Post time 2017-6-7 20:48:37

dexter2017 replied at 2017-6-4 07:28
Hi,
Just an update.
Examining the log files from Libreelec and comparing to Openelec made by 'jernej ...

Hi dexter2017,
the issue is in the kodi binary.
In the openelec 7 it includes the cedarx libraries.
If you look at the kodi patches in the Openelec github ,there is this patch

https://github.com/jernejsk/Open ... 05-H3-support.patch

that enables the communication of kodi with the cedarx binary library.

In the last kodi version the code changed so we have to adapt/rewrite the code of the DVDVideoCodecCedarX.cpp and
DVDVideoCodecCedarX.h and how to recall them in the new kodi methods.

Regards