[Milhouse]

New OpenELEC Gotham build: #0319
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:

# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.13.6 #1 PREEMPT Wed Mar 19 00:14:08 GMT 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
Mar 18 2014 17:48:48
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version e071d425eca6ab200aefcf89056f3dcaf9510093 (clean) (release)

# lsb_release
OpenELEC (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20140319001228-r17966-g23cab66

Based on tip of XBMC master (33133a5, changelog) and tip of OpenELEC master (23cab66, changelog) with the following modifications:

• Includes newclock3 commits (except for d8a2d2d which I've replaced with a static spinner to avoid hammering the GUI)
  
• Includes kernel 3.13.y-next commits (see below for details on enabling FIQ_FSM patch)
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC fernetmenta patches (due to conflict with newclock3)
  
• Default setting for "Show RSS Feed" changed to disabled
  
• Disabled "Total Duration" in Confluence (see build #0221 for details)
  
• ALSA is enabled and any suitable hardware should be available in XBMC Audio Settings
  
• Includes newclock3: "More efficient infobool expression evaluator" (reverted in stock OpenELEC)
  
• Includes newclock3: "Allow small audio packets to be concatenated to make better use of audio fifo" (reverted in stock OpenELEC)
  

Build Highlights:

1. New Firmware Mar 18:
   • userland: invert texture coordinates to match latest firmware See: #256
     
   • firmware: Some tweaks to sdram PVT calibration from jv
     
   • firmware: camera: burst capture performance fix
     
   • firmware: Remove support for safe mode and emergency kernel
     
2. OpenELEC:
   • bcm2835-bootloader: create flash/sdcard optimized ext4 filesystem
     
   • bcm2835-bootloader create_sdcard: create the storage partition aligned on 4mb
     
   • bcm2835-bootloader: use 128MB as GPU MEM, even on 256MB RPis (was using 100MB)
     
   • Updated PR4144 (Airplay fix)
     
   • sqlite: update to sqlite-autoconf-3080401
     
   • libpng: update to libpng-1.6.10
     
   • openssh: update to openssh-6.6p1
     
   • ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs: update to ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2014.2.15
     
   • new package: add package 'espeak' (initial)
     
3. XBMC:
   • Language fixes
     
4. newclock3:
   • AE: fix CAEChannelInfo::ResolveChannels, it returned duplicate channels in the list
     
   • [PiSink] Make side channels appear at back rather than front
     

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Additional Testing Notes:

1. Testers should try adding the following entry to their advancedsettings.xml:
   
   Code:

   <advancedsettings>
  <video>
    <defaultplayer>dvdplayer</defaultplayer>
    <defaultdvdplayer>dvdplayer</defaultdvdplayer>
  </video>
</advancedsettings>
   and report if it is better/worse than omxplayer. You can still play files with omxplayer using the context-menu "Play using... OMXPlayer".
   

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2. The following settings are no longer required in config.txt and should be removed:
   
   Code:

   no_hdmi_resample=1
hdmi_stream_channels=1
   no_resample_audio is now a default, and hdmi_stream_channels is switched based on audio content. For the time being when using passthrough, 2.0 speaker layout should continue to be used (you will still get 5.1 with AC3/DTS).
   

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3. The FIQ_FSM patch is now enabled by default in OpenELEC master. See the FIQ_FSM announce thread for details.
   
   One new feature, currently disabled by default, is accelerated support of high-speed isochronous transactions (webcams, real time devices, etc.). There's a possibility this could be used by ALSA or DVB modules (although not always) which may affect some users (hopefully for the better). If you might benefit from this, enable by adding the following option to the end of the line in your /flash/cmdline.txt file:
   
   Code:

   dwc_otg.fiq_fsm_mask=0x7