Minix Neo X7 - Finless 1.8 ROM

[mcln27]

your right

Your right Bob i can change it but after a reboot it's undone i read about it pitty

[Molle]

Your right Bob i can change it but after a reboot it's undone i read about it pitty

Yes, you can edit the file but a) the changes won't take effect at runtime and b) they are lost after a reboot.

That's why you need a modified boot.img.

[mcln27]

Thanx Molle i read al about it so have to wait for bob ha ha

[magno]

Thank you Molle.

I do not know what I do wrong.
Clean install of Finless 1.8.
Sound Devices Manager set to "RK29_RT5616 PASSTHROUGH".
Downloaded SPMC 12.4.1 - LibMediaEdition_v1.5.
Sound setup to HDMI / 5.1.

No sound at all on this setup and my receiver just says "No digital signal".

Trying MX player now, and it says "Sound codec not supported: dts".

Really weird.

Tried a few other XBMC versions, internal players and... no sound anywhere through HDMI passthrough. This seems too much of an effort fiddling around with this, gonna try switching back to SPDIF instead for now.

Switched to SPDIF passthrough now and DTS and DD lights up right away in Internal player and 2 tested XBMC versions. MX I probably messed up the DTS codec install I guess?

Really strange. Is HDMI passthrough not suppposed to work ok just following the steps above?

I have the same problem with Finless 1.8: I can't get DTS 5.1 passthrough but I get AC3 5.1.
Sound Devices Manager is set to "RK29_RT5616 PASSTHROUGH", but no success in MXPlayer Pro (it says "Sound codec not supported: dts"). AC3 5.1 plays smoothly in my home theatre decoder, but no audio at all when playing DTS 5.1.
It worked perfectly in Finless 1.6...
Anybody knows what happens in Finless 1.8?

[adx7]

I have the same problem with Finless 1.8: I can't get DTS 5.1 passthrough but I get AC3 5.1.
Sound Devices Manager is set to "RK29_RT5616 PASSTHROUGH", but no success in MXPlayer Pro (it says "Sound codec not supported: dts"). AC3 5.1 plays smoothly in my home theatre decoder, but no audio at all when playing DTS 5.1.
It worked perfectly in Finless 1.6...
Anybody knows what happens in Finless 1.8?

If you want to use HW+ decoder, you should install the custom library. Go into settings, decoder, scroll down to the bottom and there you will find a link pointing to a page where you can download the lib. Unzip it and save somewhere, go back to the MX Player settings and point to the custom library you just downloaded.
Don't have any android at hand right now to put the right menu entries here.
Or... you can disable in the settings the HW+ decoder. For my own part, I found that simple HW decoder works better for me.

[Molle]

I have the same problem with Finless 1.8: I can't get DTS 5.1 passthrough but I get AC3 5.1.
Anybody knows what happens in Finless 1.8?

For DTS support in MX Player, take a look here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2156254

Also please note that multichannel passthrough is not supported by the h/w+ decoder.

[magno]

For DTS support in MX Player, take a look here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2156254

Also please note that multichannel passthrough is not supported by the h/w+ decoder.

I always use H/W decoder, not H/W+. Anyway, it worked on Finless 1.6 and not in 1.8 in the same conditions.
I read in the post you linked this:

They are not ready to have a deal with the software players. So, dts playback support is dropped from the official MX-Player.

...which is contradictory with this in the same link:

You can use dts pass through without any copy right issue

and this

If you want to play DTS while using HW decoder

I guess no more DTS support in MXPlayer (neither passthrough or downmixed) so maybe that's the problem, since I updated MXPlayer to the last version after installing Finless 1.8.

Thanks for your answer!

[Molle]

I guess no more DTS support in MXPlayer (neither passthrough or downmixed) so maybe that's the problem, since I updated MXPlayer to the last version after installing Finless 1.8.

I'm on Finless 1.8 and use MX Player Pro 1.7.20 with the ARMv7 NEON codec package and the "MX Player Custom Codec with DTS Support" custom codec. I have no problems with DTS soundtracks using either downmix or passthrough.

Have you tried the stock video player? I get DD and DTS passthrough with that as well.

Try e.g. the "Hobbit" clip linked here. It's one of my standard test pieces for video playback. I get DTS sound with the stock player, MX Player and SPMC.

[magno]

I'm on Finless 1.8 and use MX Player Pro 1.7.20 with the ARMv7 NEON codec package and the "MX Player Custom Codec with DTS Support" custom codec. I have no problems with DTS soundtracks using either downmix or passthrough.

Aren't both codecs the same one? I installed ARMv7 NEON codec from the link you provided and I managed to play DTS 5.1 downmix, but not passthrough. Where can I get "MX Player Custom Codec with DTS Support"?

Have you tried the stock video player? I get DD and DTS passthrough with that as well.

Try e.g. the "Hobbit" clip linked here. It's one of my standard test pieces for video playback. I get DTS sound with the stock player, MX Player and SPMC.

I'll try the stock video player when I'm back at home this evening.

Thanks for your help.

[sbarriba]

Here is test 3 of the apk.

Let me know if it works.

http://flumpster.lolcakes.com/android/XBMC-MINIX_Test3.apk

I repeated the tests I did with justXBMC with a combination of:

- Flumpster's Minix XBMC Test3 (linked above) / Finless 1.8 ROM / 1.8Ghz, 600Mhz GPU and 800DDR3 MEM
- Files are on a NAS accessed using NFS

(Codec info below courtesy of ffmpeg)

• .wtv files recorded from Windows Media Center (circa 3GB size / MPEG2 / videobitrate: 3716 kb/s)
  • XBMC - Fail. Would play but only with sound
• .ts files recorded from Media Portal (3.9 GB size / mpeg2video / mp2 audio / bitrate: 3040 kb/s )
  • XBMC - Fail. Would play but only with sound
• .vob file (ripped DVD, 720p)
  • XBMC - video perfect / audio out by .4 secs circa
• .mkv file (makeMKV from blueray, 26GB, h264 / dts / bitrate: 26693 kb/s)
  • XBMC - played fine, in fact the image looked sharper than with justXBMC. I noticed the odd artefact in the justXBMC test / audio offset issue
• .m2ts file (home cam movies, a few MBs 7159kb/s, h264 / ac3)
  • XBMC - played fine

So in summary worse for .ts files but adds .m2ts support over justXBMC. I also felt .mkv files player more smoothly and looked sharper.

Other points to note:
- the good
- I don’t get the sound default problem I get with justXBMC on every reboot

- the bad
- A2 remote is pretty unusable as unlike with justXBMC your pointing seems to override the use of the scroll pad making it v hard to navigate menus
- it also seems to select items just below the pointer. I struggled to drive the bottom movie menu within XBMC.
- audio offset a (fixable) problem like justXBMC

[Molle]

Where can I get "MX Player Custom Codec with DTS Support"?

Check post #186.

[unlo]

Donated

Thx Bob keep up the amazing updates.

[magno]

Check post #186.

I double checked it, and double checked the link on it, but I only find there "ARMv7 NEON" codec, not "MX Player Custom Codec with DTS Support", unless they both are the same. I already installed custom codecs (ARMv7 NEON) and got the same results: no DTS passthrough (although downmix worked).

As for the "Hobbit", the clip is not online anymore.

And I tried the stock player and it does exactly the same: AC3 5.1 is played smoothly as a 5.1 digital stream in my home theatre but when selecting DTS 5.1, the audio is muted unless I select S/W decoder for audio (but in this case, the 5.1 is downmixed to stereo, no digital output from Minix to home theatre).

Any idea?

[easyfly]

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[Molle]

I double checked it, and double checked the link on it, but I only find there "ARMv7 NEON" codec, not "MX Player Custom Codec with DTS Support"

Under the 'Instructions' chapter bullet #1 there is a button for showing more content. Clicking that will open a list of available codecs. Select 'ARM v7 Neon' and a download should start for a zip file containing the DTS-enabled codec file.