[Milhouse]

New OpenELEC Gotham build: #0415
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:

# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.14.0 #1 PREEMPT Tue Apr 15 00:16:23 BST 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
Apr 14 2014 21:55:13
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 908504843baf8ca6ff68a3b7a88c9ec2fdb73250 (tainted) (release)

# lsb_release
OpenELEC (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20140415001514-r18179-g7689de7

Based on tip of XBMC master (a46e548, changelog) and tip of OpenELEC master (7689de7, changelog) with the following modifications:

• Includes newclock3 commits (except for 5697f2a, a patch to avoid hammering the GUI, which has been replaced with a static spinner)
  
• Includes Python regex package for evaluation purposes. Initial benchmarking indicates generally positive (and in some cases, significant) performance gains. See this post for a description of how to test effectiveness of this package with addons
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC fernetmenta patches due to conflict with newclock3
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC gotham_rbp_backports patches in favour of sourcing these same patches directly from newclock3 branch
  
• 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
  

Build Highlights:

1. New Firmware Apr 14:
   • firmware: audio_decode: We should reset current frame time on a flush. See: link.
     
2. OpenELEC:
   • wlan-firmware: update to wlan-firmware-0.0.19
     

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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 currently disabled by default in OpenELEC master, but enabled by default in this build. See the FIQ_FSM announce thread for details.
   
   One new feature, currently enabled 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 need to disable FIQ FSM, add the following option to the end of the line in your /flash/cmdline.txt file:
   
   Code:

   dwc_otg.fiq_enable=0 dwc_otg.fiq_fsm_enable=0

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4. These test builds include the option to dump audio and video packets to a file for later debugging. This is for issues with Live TV or streaming plugins that popcornmix can't access.
   
   In Settings -> System -> Debugging, enable "Debug logging" then in verbose logging enable "Dump video frames to debug file" and/or "Dump audio frames to debug file". These files will appear in ~/.xbmc/temp as audio.dat and video.dat. Hopefully popcornmix can then use these files when debugging issues.