Final Gotham 13 release

[pigbait]

yea mine came with spmc 12.3.3 installed. plays well. i bought from one of the only north american dealer who had the box in stock. had the box in 2 days shipped from florida.

Well I got the XBMC Gotham final to work on my M8 with no hacks,

steps I took

- go system/settings/video
-change your Setting level to Expert, (its at the bottom)
-now look for acceleration and disable all HW accel's but (libstagefright)
-Reboot XBMC and viola 1080p kindness

i did have a few videos making the box reboot, so not sure how well this will work

I hope this helps

[TMx]

Well I got the XBMC Gotham final to work on my M8 with no hacks,

steps I took

- go system/settings/video
-change your Setting level to Expert, (its at the bottom)
-now look for acceleration and disable all HW accel's but (libstagefright)
-Reboot XBMC and viola 1080p kindness

i did have a few videos making the box reboot, so not sure how well this will work

I hope this helps

I confirm This method works
Thanx for the info...

P.s if you exit back to menu while watching 1080p that makes the video playback choppy at the background...

[NoSkillz]

Well I got the XBMC Gotham final to work on my M8 with no hacks,

steps I took

- go system/settings/video
-change your Setting level to Expert, (its at the bottom)
-now look for acceleration and disable all HW accel's but (libstagefright)
-Reboot XBMC and viola 1080p kindness

i did have a few videos making the box reboot, so not sure how well this will work

I hope this helps

Good Find !! Strange that it works with Amcodec disabled ?

[TMx]

Good Find !! Strange that it works with Amcodec disabled ?

It works but not stable Crashes a lot and Choppy If you navigate menus during movie playback...
I just go back to RC...

[NoSkillz]

It works but not stable Crashes a lot and Choppy If you navigate menus during movie playback...
I just go back to RC...

Davilla at XBMC.org says this edit will fix the Gotham issue.


permissions in /dev/am*


666

[TMx]

got the Picture already but build is not as stable as RC , video Choppy only If I move back to menu ...

Thanx for the info...

[rlaursen]

isnt libstagefright just some hacked up work around for non amlogic devices? I think ill wait for the new version that lets us use the decoder that was designed for our chipset. On my RC1, I disable all hw decoders except amlogic and it plays perfectly stable and in sync.

[JustMe]

isnt libstagefright just some hacked up work around for non amlogic devices? I think ill wait for the new version that lets us use the decoder that was designed for our chipset. On my RC1, I disable all hw decoders except amlogic and it plays perfectly stable and in sync.

is this for streams or local usb media sync issue and is it for hdmi or just a/v?

JustMe

[JustMe]

got the Picture already but build is not as stable as RC , video Choppy only If I move back to menu ...

Thanx for the info...

which xbmc rc1 the tronsmart lip sync fix erric posted?

JustMe

[JustMe]

Davilla at XBMC.org says this edit will fix the Gotham issue.


permissions in /dev/am*


666

cannot find app to do this on square m8

JustMe

[no_spam_for_me]

cannot find app to do this on square m8

JustMe

With terminal... at shell you have to use 'chmod'...

[Carccaussa]

Final Gotham 13 release

cannot find app to do this on square m8

JustMe

I already did it, installed an ssh server and connected via terminal, changed the permissions and the error of not being able to open the codec is gone, but video is still just a black screen, it didn't work.
I have been trying to understand why and is all about permissions. It seems that in order to resolve them all, they allow the firmware to run this package as a system application, I confirmed that xbmc apk that comes pre installed with firmware run as system user, where official xbmc apk don't, and even when at start up xbmc tries to fix some permissions, it is not enough, as Davilla mentioned in another post, is not xbmc's job to fix this.
I also read that in order to allow an application to run as system user, its package signature must be allowed to do it so, since the moment of compiling the firmware.
So, in summary, engineers building the firmwares need to figure out what permissions xbmc requires to the video codec (and is not just /dev/am*) and find a way to allow user applications to access all dependency files without being system user.


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[TMx]

I already did it, installed an ssh server and connected via terminal, changed the permissions and the error of not being able to open the codec is gone, but video is still just a black screen, it didn't work.
I have been trying to understand why and is all about permissions. It seems that in order to resolve them all, they allow the firmware to run this package as a system application, I confirmed that xbmc apk that comes pre installed with firmware run as system user, where official xbmc apk don't, and even when at start up xbmc tries to fix some permissions, it is not enough, as Davilla mentioned in another post, is not xbmc's job to fix this.
I also read that in order to allow an application to run as system user, its package signature must be allowed to do it so, since the moment of compiling the firmware.
So, in summary, engineers building the firmwares need to figure out what permissions xbmc requires to the video codec (and is not just /dev/am*) and find a way to allow user applications to access all dependency files without being system user.


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If you have installed this firmware;

http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?12706-New-Firmware-06-05-2014

you do not need to do anything XBMC works perfectly...

for the final version do this;

- go system/settings/video
-change your Setting level to Expert, (its at the bottom)
-now look for acceleration and disable all HW accel's but (libstagefright)
-Reboot XBMC and viola 1080p kindness

or wait for the one compiled for our box...

[JustMe]

If you have installed this firmware;

http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?12706-New-Firmware-06-05-2014

you do not need to do anything XBMC works perfectly...

for the final version do this;

- go system/settings/video
-change your Setting level to Expert, (its at the bottom)
-now look for acceleration and disable all HW accel's but (libstagefright)
-Reboot XBMC and viola 1080p kindness

or wait for the one compiled for our box...

Pictures looked cropped on 72-p screens so we continue to wait

[Carccaussa]

If you have installed this firmware;

http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?12706-New-Firmware-06-05-2014

you do not need to do anything XBMC works perfectly...

for the final version do this;

- go system/settings/video
-change your Setting level to Expert, (its at the bottom)
-now look for acceleration and disable all HW accel's but (libstagefright)
-Reboot XBMC and viola 1080p kindness

or wait for the one compiled for our box...

Yes, I can use libstagefright with my current firmware, the problem is that I want to use amcodec, in my experience amcodec has been more stable than libstagefright, which freezes unexpectedly and some specific videos just won't play