Geniatech ATV1200 and XBMC hardware decoding

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RE: Geniatech ATV1200 and XBMC hardware decoding - dual_HD - 2013-09-19

Dear robvh: is possible to upload the stream your recorded somewhere that I can try it as well?
Or did you try copy the stream to a SD card or flash and play it back directly on ATV1200 XBMC ? if not, please try it firest.

RE: Geniatech ATV1200 and XBMC hardware decoding - MusicMan62 - 2013-09-20

(2013-09-14, 12:40)MusicMan62 Wrote: Has anyone tried a 64GB SD card (SDXC) with this box? Does it work?

Still curious, does anyone have a 64GB card they can try in this box? I need to buy a larger card and need to know how high I can go.

RE: Geniatech ATV1200 and XBMC hardware decoding - Ned Scott - 2013-09-20

I don't know for certain, but most of these boxes are SDHC, not SDXC.

RE: Geniatech ATV1200 and XBMC hardware decoding - robvh - 2013-09-20

(2013-09-19, 17:59)dual_HD Wrote: Or did you try copy the stream to a SD card or flash and play it back directly on ATV1200 XBMC ? if not, please try it firest.

I just copied the 3.6 GB file to an SD card and played it on the ATV. Wow. Much less choppy than via Ethernet (and Samba backend).
But it still stops at 45 minutes. With the same symptoms: you can stop the play-back, select the file again and the background remains grey (sound plays for some seconds).

Dragging the SD card to another HTPC (one of the Linux boxes) and even on a Windows XP with VLC shows that the whole file is playable.

RE: Geniatech ATV1200 and XBMC hardware decoding - robvh - 2013-09-21

Whoever said that nfs works much better than smb on the ATV1200 was right. I installed nfs-kernel-server on my tvheadend server and changed the video source to nfs in the ATV1200. Wow. The display of HD video is much smoother, I even saw 1 recording of 1:15 hours finish without halting. When I tried again, it halted after 15 minutes :-(.

RE: Geniatech ATV1200 and XBMC hardware decoding - damole - 2013-09-23

Is the latest version of the kernel 1080p? I just read somewhere else that the kernel needs to support 1080p otherwise what you are seeing is just 720p upscaled. I assume the new fullHD phones and tabs that are coming out would have 1080p kernels. Is that a reasonable assumption?

Anyone who could give some technical details with sources would be greatly appreciated.

--damole

RE: Geniatech ATV1200 and XBMC hardware decoding - damole - 2013-09-24

Reading more on the Android site I found that devices can be built as Variable-Pixel Device Implementations.

http://source.android.com/compatibility/4.0/android-4.0-cdd.pdf
http://source.android.com/compatibility/android-4.3-cdd.pdf

Is that a way to determine now that whether the ATV1200 is or isn't a VPD box?

RE: Geniatech ATV1200 and XBMC hardware decoding - damole - 2013-09-24

Just got a reply from myGica:

Quote:Dear Damole,

It is playing video natively at 1080P.

Other screen is upscalled to 1080P.

If you need all screen are real 1080P, we also have such firmware.

Best Regards,

Judy

2013-09-24
Support team
Shenzhen Geniatech Inc., Ltd.
18F, GDC Building, No.9, Gaoxin Middle 3rd, Nanshan District Shenzhen, China
www.geniatech.com
发件人： damole
发送时间： 2013-09-23 21:55:59
收件人： support
抄送：
主题： Geniatech ATV1200
Dear Support
I have a Geniatech ATV1200 and I want to know if the kernel is 720p or
1080p. Is the box upscaling my video to 1080p or playing it natively at
1080p?
best regards
Damole

RE: Geniatech ATV1200 and XBMC hardware decoding - 4grom - 2013-09-24

(2013-09-23, 16:04)damole Wrote: Is the latest version of the kernel 1080p? I just read somewhere else that the kernel needs to support 1080p otherwise what you are seeing is just 720p upscaled. I assume the new fullHD phones and tabs that are coming out would have 1080p kernels. Is that a reasonable assumption?

Anyone who could give some technical details with sources would be greatly appreciated.

--damole

1080p only in MoviePlayer, all other - upscalled, try!

RE: Geniatech ATV1200 and XBMC hardware decoding - damole - 2013-09-25

Thanks. I thought I'd read all of this thread but must have missed that post. I downloaded the sample video and it's clearly different in movie player when compared to any other player.

I've ask myGigca to send me links to the 1080p firmware and also asked about VPD as even my Netflix doesn't give me the option to watch in HD.

RE: Geniatech ATV1200 and XBMC hardware decoding - Starstream - 2013-09-25

The GPU in the chip may not have the processing power to render the UI/XBMC at 1080p smoothly, at least on the older M1/M3 Amlogic chips thats what I assumed (which only managed XBMC at 30fps in 720p), the M6 has a slightly improved GPU but it may still not be enough.

RE: Geniatech ATV1200 and XBMC hardware decoding - 4grom - 2013-09-25

(2013-09-25, 00:28)damole Wrote: I've ask myGigca to send me links to the 1080p firmware

I think everyone will be grateful if you post links to 1080p firmware from Geniatech.

RE: Geniatech ATV1200 and XBMC hardware decoding - cabbagehead - 2013-09-25

(2013-04-05, 12:59)jalterach Wrote: I received a very kind support from MyGica! Really nice people.
They proposed a firmware with output "real 1080p", not upscaled:

www.geniatech.com/down-eng/androidtvbox/update_spi_mx_1080p_20130326.zip SPI
www.geniatech.com/down-eng/androidtvbox/update_mx_1080p_20130326.zip firmware

This firmware is really nice!
The image played with the xbmc is now a real 1080p, but the sound has issues: it comes and goes intermittently with a mkv. Seams like a buffer problem…
I played file via samba ethernet and via USB: same issues with the sound.

Suggestions on how to solve sound/buffer problem with this firmware version? may be with the advanced settings?

thanks in advance!

HTH

RE: Geniatech ATV1200 and XBMC hardware decoding - Ned Scott - 2013-09-25

In theory, they should be rendering the XBMC GUI at 720 on weaker CPUs, but allowing the video to be 1080. I believe this is what is done on the Pivos FW and is also done on other lower powered ARM boxes, like the Raspberry Pi. Rendering video at 1080 is a lot easier for the device than it is to render the XBMC GUI at 1080, as odd as that might sound.

RE: Geniatech ATV1200 and XBMC hardware decoding - 4grom - 2013-09-25

(2013-09-25, 18:51)cabbagehead Wrote:
(2013-04-05, 12:59)jalterach Wrote: I received a very kind support from MyGica! Really nice people.
They proposed a firmware with output "real 1080p", not upscaled:

www.geniatech.com/down-eng/androidtvbox/update_spi_mx_1080p_20130326.zip SPI
www.geniatech.com/down-eng/androidtvbox/update_mx_1080p_20130326.zip firmware

This firmware is really nice!
The image played with the xbmc is now a real 1080p, but the sound has issues: it comes and goes intermittently with a mkv. Seams like a buffer problem…
I played file via samba ethernet and via USB: same issues with the sound.

Suggestions on how to solve sound/buffer problem with this firmware version? may be with the advanced settings?

thanks in advance!

HTH

This is an old buggy firmware.

Need support 1080p full-screen playback in any player! Not interested in the interface 1080p!