SPMC

[Koying]

Is it happening with other files? Someone else noticed something similar?
A logcat would help...

[billyme]

What is the date of the ROM?

Cheers,
-SB

the date of the rom is 20150105

[sawbones999]

the date of the rom is 20150105

I went back a ways to check and see what it is exactly that you are looking for and it seems that you are asking if there is a fix for more video options with rklibstagefright, is that correct? If so I don't think that there is. I'm pretty sure everyone with RK3288 and possibly other Rockchip procs are having the same issue(reduced options in rklibstagefright). It's better than the betas. At least now we have options for zoom.

You should be able to adjust color, saturation, brightness, etc with an external app if necessary, or as a last resort on your tv.

If I I'm incorrect about this, someone please correct me, because if there is a fix I'd like to know it, too.

With your firmware release date being what it is, you should have the most up to date libs already. If you want to double check, then compare the sizes of the video libs against the ones here in the firefly bitbucket https://bitbucket.org/T-Firefly/fire...lib/?at=master

It took me forever to find those again, lol. You might want to bookmark that page for future reference.

On another note, I'm having a problem with SPMC 14.1 on my ADT-1. The problem is that I can't adjust the volume from within SPMC. I have tried using the right stick up and down, also from the menu to adjust audio while a video is playing and no matter what the indicator says about the volume level, the output remains constant.

I have tried with audio pass through on and off and it makes no difference. I'm pretty sure it was like that in recent betas as well. I don't think I tested it when I was briefly trying out KODI 14. I would like to say that I know it can be adjusted in other apps, but I'm actually not certain I've tested that. Maybe once with Pandora or Pluto tv. My ADT-1's primary function is SPMC with a little gaming on the side.

Does anyone know of a fix for this? It's not a huge deal or anything, but I like to have a bit finer control over the volume.

Thanks again for all your hard work, koying! We all appreciate it very much.
Cheers!
-SB

[eddieaok]

Location librtmp.so SPMC 13.4 Launcher Version

If I need to update the file in future is it located here:

data/app-lib/com.sempermax.spmc-1

Thanks

Ed

[sawbones999]

I have a quick question for you, koying. I've been looking through your github, and I was just wondering which version of ffmpeg we're on now. Both on 14.1 release and latest alpha (i think there is a new alpha? Maybe not). Just being curious.

But am I correct that the version included will only affect software decoding, or are there improvements in hw acceleration as well?

Then also, I was wondering if in using rklibstagefright, then I would be stuck with the newest version Rockchip is using. Or would that only be true if using rkffplayer, and then only if rkffplayer was specified in playercorefacory, which it is not, right?

I'm full of questions today, trying to learn as much as possible so one more. On ADT-1, if I could find newer tegra 4 libstagefright and other related libs, would there be any benefit to using those instead? Will the better benefit to tegra 4 come from the updated ffmpeg in the newer KODI that allows software decoding of more codecs like h.265 ?(I have no idea what kind of quality that would be, but heard it's happening).

Sorry for all those questions. Thanks for your time!
Cheers,
-SB

[amclean123]

Is it happening with other files? Someone else noticed something similar?
A logcat would help...

Yes I can reproduce it with other files. I'll get a log and send it to you in the next couple of days.
Thanks!
-Aaron

[choekstr]

Will the better benefit to tegra 4 come from the updated ffmpeg in the newer KODI that allows software decoding of more codecs like h.265 ?(I have no idea what kind of quality that would be, but heard it's happening).
-SB

Android based hardware just doesn't have the CPU power for software HEVC/H.265 decoding without hardware gpu support. Expect to get around 3-10 FPS using software decoding for H.265 vs 23.98-60FPS for HW decoding.

On a full blow CPU like an Intel Core I* processor software decoding is indeed possible as there is excess CPU power to decode these types of video files.

[sawbones999]

Android based hardware just doesn't have the CPU power for software HEVC/H.265 decoding without hardware gpu support. Expect to get around 3-10 FPS using software decoding for H.265 vs 23.98-60FPS for HW decoding.

On a full blow CPU like an Intel Core I* processor software decoding is indeed possible as there is excess CPU power to decode these types of video files.

That's pretty much what I expected the answer would be re: software h.265. There is a guy over in this thread making all sorts of crazy claims about the ADT-1 and all I did was point out a few shortcomings of the device. http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...Developers-box

At first he was claiming h.265 4K at 1080p, full frame rate. Then he tried to say it output at 4K. Then he revealed that the ADT-1 could do h.265, using serverwmc Windows backend to decode and stream to his ADT-1. He claims this as native support with a work around.

Just because it will stream to the ADT-1 as a wmc client that hardly means that ADT-1 is capable of decoding it on it's own. I finally decided to ignore it, because every time I pointed out a flaw in his logic he comes back with wilder and more senseless responses.

-----Back on topic
Has anyone else had the same issues with audio output on ADT-1, or know of a way to adjust the audio inside SPMC. I don't have this problem with SPMC any other device.

Cheers,
-SB

[sawbones999]

I just tested it with software decoder to see if it's a libmedia or libstagefright issue and the result is the same. Can't adjust volume.

Cheers,
-SB

[Koying]

AFAIK, the ADT-1 doesn't have volume support whatsoever. It's always 100% and it (rightly imo) assumes volumes control will be done on the TV or AVR.

IIRC, it's the same on AFTV.

[sawbones999]

Ah, well then there is another reason why I like my R89 more than my ADT-1. I like having the ability to adjust the volume as well as playback with the same input peripheral.

Plus it's just not fine enough sometimes at the tv. My 1yr old daughter's bedroom is next to the living room and sometimes I am up very late at night watching tv and I'm the only one in the house awake. I may be watching a kung fu movie or something dubbed and the dialog might be low so I'll have to turn it up, then the fight sequences or music may be louder so I have to turn it down.

But if I can control the volume at the source, not only do I not have to juggle remotes, but I often am able to reduce the source volume and find just the right spot between the volume numbers on my tv where I won't have to adjust it at all, or as much.

At 4 am when there is no outside traffic sounds, the heater is off, and everyone in the house is asleep, volume # 4 can be loud on the tv when the source is at 100%, but then 3 is not loud enough to understand the dialog. When you can tweak the source volume there is a sweet spot.

I guess I'm just used to that, because even before I got my r89 and before I got into XBMC, I used to use a pc for Netflix/downloaded movies and had the same issue. Of course on a pc it's no big deal to tweak the volume however you like it before it hits the tv.

Thanks for the reply!
Cheers,
-SB

[amclean123]

Is it happening with other files? Someone else noticed something similar?
A logcat would help...

It looks like it's an image issue. I tried this image on my Tronsmart R28 and I don't have the issue.
http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...irmware-v1-02-)

[choekstr]

Ah, well then there is another reason why I like my R89 more than my ADT-1. I like having the ability to adjust the volume as well as playback with the same input peripheral.

Plus it's just not fine enough sometimes at the tv. My 1yr old daughter's bedroom is next to the living room and sometimes I am up very late at night watching tv and I'm the only one in the house awake. I may be watching a kung fu movie or something dubbed and the dialog might be low so I'll have to turn it up, then the fight sequences or music may be louder so I have to turn it down.

But if I can control the volume at the source, not only do I not have to juggle remotes, but I often am able to reduce the source volume and find just the right spot between the volume numbers on my tv where I won't have to adjust it at all, or as much.

At 4 am when there is no outside traffic sounds, the heater is off, and everyone in the house is asleep, volume # 4 can be loud on the tv when the source is at 100%, but then 3 is not loud enough to understand the dialog. When you can tweak the source volume there is a sweet spot.

I guess I'm just used to that, because even before I got my r89 and before I got into XBMC, I used to use a pc for Netflix/downloaded movies and had the same issue. Of course on a pc it's no big deal to tweak the volume however you like it before it hits the tv.

Thanks for the reply!
Cheers,
-SB

I completely get your dilemma and run into this as well. My Minix X7 does have volume control and having it on the same remote is priceless! Plus, Android has only 15 steps for volume and it is very limiting so I use the xposed framework and the xaudio plugin to increase these steps to either 30 or 45 (I like 45) so now I have a ton of granularity, same remote volume and life is great.

I had no idea that volume wasn't a feature on some of these boxes. Ugh, makes me happy my pipo x7 win8 STB also supports volume as well.

[prahjister]

Question

Koying,

For the screen issue in top left hand corner with mk808b+ is that something beelink has to fix?

[Koying]

Koying,

For the screen issue in top left hand corner with mk808b+ is that something beelink has to fix?

Yep. The neverending permission issues with amlogic.