[ROM] Unofficial OpenELEC for MK808B+ and MXQ

[phinc]

Does anybody have a link to a cheap HDMI cable that supports CEC?

[steocullen91]

Thanks for the reply. I can't get it to work properly and I've tried setting the refresh rate to 24hz. I have a little 22" Samsung LED TV and it was the same on that using Android but saying that I never tried with openelec yet on the Samsung. It must be just something simple I'm doing wrong surely it should handle 24p properly it has absolutely no problem with 25fps or 50fps video just can't sort out the judder on 24p.

[pajopasa]

All 4 cores are used. This ROM uses hotplug governor which means if there is no load, the unused cores are turned off to save energy. If you want all cores to be online all the time, you may create an autoscript.sh file that switches governor to ondemand on boot.

kszaq can you help me doing that file???

[hellotonothing]

I don't know what kind of wireless chip your device has but I compiled the most common Realtek drivers in: https://app.box.com/s/h0n2vcfi2ngpy2kgm5elcizfpgzvxeaz
Please try it and report.

hello kszaq !

worked like a charm, after i`ve updated using the /storage/.update folder, and rebooting my device, I was able to connect it to my wireless network and even test a 15gb movie through streaming from my NAS.

if you are interested in making another builds for this specific system, i would be happy to help you.

from the output of my dmesg, i was able to find out that my chip is this one :

[ 465.882034@1] RTL871X: cfg80211_rtw_scan, bBusyTraffic == _TRUE

i really appreciate the time youve spent to create this build for me.


for your information, just to update you on anything that could help you improve your build :
- this specific mxq box, has a red led that used to turn blue when the box gets on, and now its only red
- the boot time is a little bit long comparing to other non-working builds (takes like 2 minutes to boot, but it shows every core and memory correctly)
- i will try to use the remote that came with this box (its pretty comfy and simple), and will report the results

again, thanks a lot for your time

[MeleTest]

Both of these tuners are not supported in 3.10 kernel. I may try to compile the drivers when I find time to do it but I can't promise it will work.


There seems to be a different patch already included in 3.10 kernel with the functionality you linked. The error you are experiencing would need to be investigated further.

EDIT: I will include media_build drivers in the next release. That's all I can do.

Thanks for the new release including media_build. I have downloaded it and will give a try this weekend.

[hellotonothing]

hello kszaq !

worked like a charm, after i`ve updated using the /storage/.update folder, and rebooting my device, I was able to connect it to my wireless network and even test a 15gb movie through streaming from my NAS.

if you are interested in making another builds for this specific system, i would be happy to help you.

from the output of my dmesg, i was able to find out that my chip is this one :

[ 465.882034@1] RTL871X: cfg80211_rtw_scan, bBusyTraffic == _TRUE

i really appreciate the time youve spent to create this build for me.


for your information, just to update you on anything that could help you improve your build :
- this specific mxq box, has a red led that used to turn blue when the box gets on, and now its only red
- the boot time is a little bit long comparing to other non-working builds (takes like 2 minutes to boot, but it shows every core and memory correctly)
- i will try to use the remote that came with this box (its pretty comfy and simple), and will report the results

again, thanks a lot for your time

so after a couple of time testing, searching and trying to make things work, i cant seem to find a way for LIRC to work, i cant install the drivers since there is no way to compile them on the box.. if anyone has any suggestions on how to find it, i would appreciate !

Thanks a lot

[mike77]

A new release: 5.0.7-20150401

• OpenELEC 5.0.7
• added support for PCTV 78e, PCTV 79e and Alcor-0 DVB-T tuners (user request)
• audio interface is now recognized as S/PDIF - this disables unsupported HD Audio formats in Kodi settings
• added possibility to use external audio passthrough interfaces
• re-enabled USB Audio support
• add experimental support for additional tuners by including media_build drivers

Download here: https://github.com/kszaq/OpenELEC.tv...es/tag/5.0.7p1

I know that OpenELEC 5.0.8 has just been released. Don't worry - it is only a small bugfix for imx6. We'd better wait for OpenELEC with Kodi 14.2 final.

Thanks for 5.0.7 but hdmi and spdif passthrough dd dts aac (5.1) don,t work , just 2.0

edit:
sorry my mistake spdif passthrough works !

Thanks!!!

[dmarkey]

Still no CEC working for me with my LG tv (menu buttons etc)

[shamanNS]

Actually I don't have any problems with playing 23.976 fps videos smoothly. My TV is Samsung UE32F5300 and I have automatic framerate switching turned on, sync playback to display off. There are some problems with 29.98 fps videos, though.

Skipping 3000+ frames in 40 minutes with automatic framerate switching enabled ≠ smooth playback. It is noticeable and also causes audio/video out-of-sync when frames skipping gets really bad.
And if the same device while on Android & using SPMC (based on Kodi 14.1) doesn't have the same problem that it must be either Kodi 14.2 bug/regression on OpenELEC port/fork bug. Either way it should be looked into.

[kszaq]

kszaq can you help me doing that file???

Add echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor to your autoscript file

so after a couple of time testing, searching and trying to make things work, i cant seem to find a way for LIRC to work, i cant install the drivers since there is no way to compile them on the box.. if anyone has any suggestions on how to find it, i would appreciate !

Thanks a lot

If you want to make the factory remote work, simply extract remote.conf from the Android ROM for your device and put it into Config folder.

Skipping 3000+ frames in 40 minutes with automatic framerate switching enabled ≠ smooth playback. It is noticeable and also causes audio/video out-of-sync when frames skipping gets really bad.
And if the same device while on Android & using SPMC (based on Kodi 14.1) doesn't have the same problem that it must be either Kodi 14.2 bug/regression on OpenELEC port/fork bug. Either way it should be looked into.

Personally I don't mind skipped frames if I don't see them and I should say I'm picky about it. There are some updates from codesnake coming in the next build that might help in that matter.

[codesnake]

Personally I don't mind skipped frames if I don't see them and I should say I'm picky about it. There are some updates from codesnake coming in the next build that might help in that matter.

Actually the number of skipped frames Kodi shows for Amlogic boxes are the skipped frames while drawing GUI, not the video being played.

[hellotonothing]

If you want to make the factory remote work, simply extract remote.conf from the Android ROM for your device and put it into Config folder.

i tried copying the remote.conf to \\box-ip\Configfiles, but it still doesnt work.
when i try to map keys or w/e, i get the following information :

OpenELEC:/ # ir-keytable -t
/sys/class/rc/: No such file or directory

OpenELEC:/ # systemctl status lirc
● lirc.service
Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
Active: inactive (dead)


OpenELEC:/ # systemctl start lirc
Failed to start lirc.service: Unit lirc.service failed to load: No such file or directory.



Any ideas on how to proceed ?

thanks a lot !

[csgabe]

kszaq
Could you please add pyload addon into OpenElec or compile it and post it here?

[steocullen91]

Hi again. I have tried my mxq on openelec with a 24p video with automatic frame rate switching on and sync playback off on an LG plasma then tried it again on my Samsung and they played flawlessly but on my 40 inch Toshiba playback is a bit stuttery. I have no idea why but it must be the TV itself and it supports 24hz so I've no idea why it's like that. Maybe the TV just isn't very well optimised for 24hz.

[phinc]

kszaq
Could you please add pyload addon into OpenElec or compile it and post it here?

It's in the Unofficial OpenELEC Addon Repo