NEW - Lollipop - wasser firmware 3.0.6 for Minix Neo X7

[zapto]

Am I right in thinking that now sound manager has been ported over, that the libmedia.so still needs to be patched to allow pass through in patched versions of xbmc, like beyond xbmc?

Gotham for Android appears to provide support for DTS/AC3 passthrough. Thus the correct step may be implementing the audio passthrough device on wasser's kitkat rom!?

[anhil]

Gotham for Android appears to provide support for DTS/AC3 passthrough. Thus the correct step may be implementing the audio passthrough device on wasser's kitkat rom!?

Passthrough is already implemented in wasser's ROM - in order to make it work in XBMC you need to have properly modified version of XBMC (like Beyond) and a matching libmedia.so in ROM. The later is still missing from wasser's ROM.
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anhil

[zapto]

Passthrough is already implemented in wasser's ROM - in order to make it work in XBMC you need to have properly modified version of XBMC (like Beyond) and a matching libmedia.so in ROM. The later is still missing from wasser's ROM.
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anhil

I believe that the current passthrough implementation in some Android roms was designed by Staftrom:"I have created a hack to get pass through in xbmc, both ac3 and dts with hdmi and optical output.
It requires a patched version of libmedia.so ... and a modified version of xbmc."
(http://minixforums.com/threads/how-t...nd-spdif.2041/)

"The problem is the android java framework which don't allow us to pass the DIRECT_OUTPUT flag via AudioTrack to libmedia.so to activate passthrough. To get around this I have patched libmedia.so to activate passthrough when the streamType argument passed to audiotrack is set to STREAM_VOICE_CALL (audio stream for phone calls) and since most people don't use their neo x5 to make phone calls with I don't think this will cause any problem."

This implementation had some issues with communications apps (e.g. Skype, Hangouts) so stafstrom made a 2nd libmedia version which corrected the issue (for mono audio).

Unfortunately this patch approach requires patching XBMC and as new versions keep appearing it becomes too demanding to patch all of them!

So, from my (candid?) point of view, developing a "proper" passthrough device for Android should be a better solution. Can anyone give some insight on this? is this approach unreasonable (e.g. because it may require modifying the android java framework and recompile XBMC against it) and/or too difficult?

[karel]

I believe that the current passthrough implementation in some Android roms was designed by Staftrom:"I have created a hack to get pass through in xbmc, both ac3 and dts with hdmi and optical output.
It requires a patched version of libmedia.so ... and a modified version of xbmc."
(http://minixforums.com/threads/how-t...nd-spdif.2041/)

"The problem is the android java framework which don't allow us to pass the DIRECT_OUTPUT flag via AudioTrack to libmedia.so to activate passthrough. To get around this I have patched libmedia.so to activate passthrough when the streamType argument passed to audiotrack is set to STREAM_VOICE_CALL (audio stream for phone calls) and since most people don't use their neo x5 to make phone calls with I don't think this will cause any problem."

This implementation had some issues with communications apps (e.g. Skype, Hangouts) so stafstrom made a 2nd libmedia version which corrected the issue (for mono audio).

Unfortunately this patch approach requires patching XBMC and as new versions keep appearing it becomes too demanding to patch all of them!

So, from my (candid?) point of view, developing a "proper" passthrough device for Android should be a better solution. Can anyone give some insight on this? is this approach unreasonable (e.g. because it may require modifying the android java framework and recompile XBMC against it) and/or too difficult?

Great idea, but for the time being I compiled XBMC Gotham RC1 with the libmedia passthrough patch.

[anhil]

Tnx!

Great idea, but for the time being I compiled XBMC Gotham RC1 with the libmedia passthrough patch.

Thanks 4 compilation & upload - works nicely with this libmedia.so at least in Cloudproject KK ROM - haven't tried yet with l8test wasser's.
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anhil

[Hjhoekie]

SPDIF

After trying all custom roms I ended up with Finless 1.8.
Very stable,very fast and last but not least,no audio issue's anymore.
Works great with Beyond XBMC "digital audio enabled"
And in settings" rockchip/spdif" enabled.
Although all roms are nice and better than stock, I stay with Finless 1.8

[wasser]

Great idea, but for the time being I compiled XBMC Gotham RC1 with the libmedia passthrough patch.

Hi karel, thanks for the xbmc build . could you or someone please test if it works fine with patched libmedia.so.
If it works i will add it in 0.96 release which i plan to release at this weekend.

Some highlights of next coming 0.96 release:

- perfect fullhd video streaming
- auto hide systembar

thanks,

wasser

[zapto]

Great idea, but for the time being I compiled XBMC Gotham RC1 with the libmedia passthrough patch.

Goodthank you!

[alexnev]

Is it possible to solve passthrough problem while keeping skype functional?
Thank you!

[ajamils]

Re: KitKat-4.4.2 for Minix X7

Hi karel, thanks for the xbmc build . could you or someone please test if it works fine with patched libmedia.so.
If it works i will add it in 0.96 release which i plan to release at this weekend.

Some highlights of next coming 0.96 release:

- perfect fullhd video streaming
- auto hide systembar

thanks,

wasser

Could you also check if the new release works with full screen video playback for embedded videos in webpage.

Sent from Galaxy Note 3 via Tapatalk.

[wayner]

Hi karel, thanks for the xbmc build . could you or someone please test if it works fine with patched libmedia.so.
If it works i will add it in 0.96 release which i plan to release at this weekend.

Some highlights of next coming 0.96 release:

- perfect fullhd video streaming
- auto hide systembar

thanks,

wasser

Tryed Karels build and works great with my setup.
Using UT2 ugoos

[lewys]

wasser,

I have air mouse and after each reboot X7 detects it as hardware keyboard, so I need manually disable it in settings for use on-screen keyboard, can you fix it please?

[ferrariale]

unzip my attachment and copy it to /system/usr/keylayout


Wasser, please add it to new release too!

the back button does not work

[lachyzee]

Hi wasser,

Is there any chance of getting Miracast/ the minix WifiDisplay app to work in your ROM?

Or is it impossible?

Cheers

[karel]

Hi karel, thanks for the xbmc build . could you or someone please test if it works fine with patched libmedia.so.
If it works i will add it in 0.96 release which i plan to release at this weekend.

Some highlights of next coming 0.96 release:

- perfect fullhd video streaming
- auto hide systembar

thanks,

wasser

Hey Wasser,
I would like to try, but I have a Minix X5 and not a Minix X7. Could you make a KitKat-4.4.2 for Minix X5?

As I understand KitKat uses a 3.0.36+ kernel (the same kernel version is used in 4.2.2 roms). Does that mean that I can run your KitKat rom (system.img) with a rk3066 android 4.2.2 3.0.36+ kernel?