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RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for Generic/Nvidia_Legacy (Kodi 16/17) - Ipaddle - 2016-01-02

(2016-01-02, 22:07)SavellM Wrote: Sorry totally off topic but what do you mean by Fritsch is gone?
Left the project, or left OE or Kodi?

Can anyone PM me details please?
Yeah, off topic. But why PM? I want to know too. Who is stepping in?


RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for Generic/Nvidia_Legacy (Kodi 16/17) - SavellM - 2016-01-02

PM so we dont derail this project.


RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for Generic/Nvidia_Legacy (Kodi 16/17) - Ipaddle - 2016-01-02

(2016-01-02, 22:11)SavellM Wrote: PM so we dont derail this project.
Of course.


RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for Generic/Nvidia_Legacy (Kodi 16/17) - Milhouse - 2016-01-02

(2016-01-02, 22:07)SavellM Wrote: Sorry totally off topic but what do you mean by Fritsch is gone?
Left the project, or left OE or Kodi?

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=231955&pid=2201222#pid2201222


RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for Generic/Nvidia_Legacy (Kodi 16/17) - jjslegacy - 2016-01-02

(2016-01-02, 21:00)Milhouse Wrote:
(2016-01-02, 17:27)jjslegacy Wrote: @millhouse is it suppose to do that? Not sure why it overrides my default choice when I put a build that has pulse in it and becomes the default.

No, and it doesn't do it for me.

Can you try shutting down kodi, renaming guisettings.xml (to guisettings.xml.bak), restarting kodi and re-applying your settings - maybe something has become set in your guisettings.xml that makes Kodi think PulseAudio is the default.


I don't believe it does it all the time it just seems when I switch back from a Fritsch build to one of yours I see this problem. I will try to cleanup the gui version as I have had quite a lot of versions on this machine for play.


Thanks for the idea!


RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for Generic/Nvidia_Legacy (Kodi 16/17) - Milhouse - 2016-01-02

(2016-01-02, 21:24)Brian B Wrote: Thanks for all the work and effort, but it is all above my head...Everything seems to be working at the moment, so I will just wait...

In a nutshell, fritsch builds were based on an older (more stable?) version of OpenELEC master with latest Kodi and latest FernetMenta work, my builds are based on latest OpenELEC master with latest Kodi and latest FernetMenta work.

Basically, other than the precise version of OpenELEC, they were pretty much the same. Basing my builds on latest OpenELEC can (and does) lead to some add-on breakage, which is addressed to some extent by the updated addons I provide.

Edit: Forgot to say that my builds also include a small selection of yet-to-be merged pull requests (ie. bug fixes, experimental features) that you wouldn't find in fritsch's builds


RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for Generic/Nvidia_Legacy (Kodi 16/17) - SavellM - 2016-01-02

Thanks Milhouse.

Keep up the awesome work with the bleeding edge builds.
Much appreciated.

*EDIT* Wow just read that post link. Sad times Sad
I hope someone picks up his mantel and keeps the updates flowing.


OpenELEC Testbuilds for Generic/Nvidia_Legacy (Kodi 16/17) - Ipaddle - 2016-01-02

(2016-01-02, 22:22)Milhouse Wrote:
(2016-01-02, 21:24)Brian B Wrote: Thanks for all the work and effort, but it is all above my head...Everything seems to be working at the moment, so I will just wait...

In a nutshell, fritsch builds were based on an older (more stable?) version of OpenELEC master with latest Kodi and latest FernetMenta work, my builds are based on latest OpenELEC master with latest Kodi and latest FernetMenta work.

Basically, other than the precise version of OpenELEC, they were pretty much the same. Basing my builds on latest OpenELEC can (and does) lead to some add-on breakage, which is addressed to some extent by the updated addons I provide.

Edit: Forgot to say that my builds also include a small selection of yet-to-be merged pull requests (ie. bug fixes, experimental features) that you wouldn't find in fritsch's builds

Thanks for clearing things up!


RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for Generic/Nvidia_Legacy (Kodi 16/17) - D-an-W - 2016-01-02

(2016-01-02, 21:05)Milhouse Wrote:
(2016-01-02, 17:40)D-an-W Wrote: Am I right in saying that build #1201 is the last to use Jarvis?

I have a couple of Android boxes as well as the Chromebox using a shared database so until there are Android build based on v17 I can't use any newer and still have the database kept in sync.

Strictly speaking, #0904 would be the last build based on "pure" Jarvis as all builds after that were a hybrid of Jarvis + VideoPlayer (the latter being a Kodi 17 feature).

However if all you're concerned about is the database version for Jarvis compatibility, then you want videodb=99 and musicdb=56, which means #1201 is your limit.

Thats exactly what I am concerned about thanks Milhouse, as soon as I can get my hands on v17 Android builds that use the same databases I will update to your latest release!


RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for Generic/Nvidia_Legacy (Kodi 16/17) - megaup987 - 2016-01-02

(2015-12-26, 21:50)megaup987 Wrote: Gentlemen, not sure if this should be in this thread, so if not, mods, please move it to the appropriate thread.

I am having issues with some 1080p24 VC-1 files having visual artifacts when VAAPI hardware acceleration is enabled. The artifacts do disappear if I turn hardware acceleration off, but then the video stutters.

I am running OpenELEC Generic build #1220 from this thread (OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-7.0-Milhouse-20151220232738-#1220-gc07aeab), on an ASRock N3000 with Crucial 8GB RAM kit and a 250GB Samsung 850 EVO mSATA drive. I'm playing the video off the mSATA, but the results are the same if I play it off a USB drive. My UEFI version is N3000-NUC P1.50, CPU set to Sport Mode. I'm also having the same issue with OpenELEC 6.0.0.

I cut a section of the video I'm having problems with, and a member on the OpenELEC forum confirmed that they have the same problem on ASRock N3000. I uploaded the debug log and the section of the video below.

Log: http://xbmclogs.com/pvzinnfdj
File: https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B9X316MN6HHvSlNWb1ZhSGo2X2M&export=download

I tried to address this issue on the OpenELEC forum, but it seems that I may get more support here. OpenELEC forum thread is here: http://openelec.tv/forum/116-vaapi-intel/79224-asrock-beebox-n3000-vc-1-visual-artifacts

Any help is appreciated.

Gentlemen,

I apologize to hijack the thread again, but my issue is not resolved. I tried the latest build (#0101) and the artifacts are still present when VAAPI hardware acceleration in used. What should I try next?


RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for Generic/Nvidia_Legacy (Kodi 16/17) - _Spook_ - 2016-01-02

@Milhouse If they are about the same, why does H.265 files on this build take more CPU then the Fritsch builds? Is the same EGL VAAPI from Intel included in your builds?


RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for Generic/Nvidia_Legacy (Kodi 16/17) - rykios - 2016-01-02

Happy new year to sir M and all you guys,
a quick question: enabling DSP option in settings, freezes the system with a message about no addons found. Truth is i dont see ANY dsp addons available either pre-installed (coming with this release) or available for download in kodi&openelec repos. BUT, i do read in latest release post about updated DSP plugins coming with this version... Am i missing something?


RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for Generic/Nvidia_Legacy (Kodi 16/17) - jjslegacy - 2016-01-02

(2016-01-02, 22:48)megaup987 Wrote:
(2015-12-26, 21:50)megaup987 Wrote: Gentlemen, not sure if this should be in this thread, so if not, mods, please move it to the appropriate thread.

I am having issues with some 1080p24 VC-1 files having visual artifacts when VAAPI hardware acceleration is enabled. The artifacts do disappear if I turn hardware acceleration off, but then the video stutters.

I am running OpenELEC Generic build #1220 from this thread (OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-7.0-Milhouse-20151220232738-#1220-gc07aeab), on an ASRock N3000 with Crucial 8GB RAM kit and a 250GB Samsung 850 EVO mSATA drive. I'm playing the video off the mSATA, but the results are the same if I play it off a USB drive. My UEFI version is N3000-NUC P1.50, CPU set to Sport Mode. I'm also having the same issue with OpenELEC 6.0.0.

I cut a section of the video I'm having problems with, and a member on the OpenELEC forum confirmed that they have the same problem on ASRock N3000. I uploaded the debug log and the section of the video below.

Log: http://xbmclogs.com/pvzinnfdj
File: https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B9X316MN6HHvSlNWb1ZhSGo2X2M&export=download

I tried to address this issue on the OpenELEC forum, but it seems that I may get more support here. OpenELEC forum thread is here: http://openelec.tv/forum/116-vaapi-intel/79224-asrock-beebox-n3000-vc-1-visual-artifacts

Any help is appreciated.

Gentlemen,

I apologize to hijack the thread again, but my issue is not resolved. I tried the latest build (#0101) and the artifacts are still present when VAAPI hardware acceleration in used. What should I try next?


If I was guessing - file a bug with intel but I don't imagine that will go anywhere. Likely best just converting the file away from vc1 using ffmpeg


Re: RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for Generic/Nvidia_Legacy (Kodi 16/17) - Milhouse - 2016-01-03

(2016-01-02, 22:50)_Spook_ Wrote: @Milhouse If they are about the same, why does H.265 files on this build take more CPU then the Fritsch builds? Is the same EGL VAAPI from Intel included in your builds?

Should be the same EGL VAAPI - compare the builds, in the release notes you can find links to all the patches I'm adding in these builds.


RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for Generic/Nvidia_Legacy (Kodi 16/17) - Milhouse - 2016-01-03

Technical issues may be slower to be dealt with now that fritsch isn't around. I just want to stress to everyone I'm just the builder and won't be able to address every issue, particularly anything related to video playback (I don't have anything like the relationship with FernetMenta that fritsch had, nor do I have fritsch's technical skills or interest in Intel gear).

Unfortunately with fritsch moving on, I'm wondering how viable these x86 test builds will continue to be - time will tell.