[Milhouse]

New OpenELEC I****** build: #1228
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:

# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.18.1 #1 PREEMPT Sun Dec 28 21:04:02 GMT 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
Dec 19 2014 18:40:20
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 5abd572e2ed1811283443387af09377b95501c50 (clean) (release)

# lsb_release
OpenELEC (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20141228210249-r19875-g98b89fa [Build #1228]

Based on tip of OpenELEC master (98b89faf, changelog) and tip of XBMC master (a52f69ad, changelog) with the following modifications:

• Includes newclock4 patches
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC fernetmenta patches due to conflicts with newclock4
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC linux-01-RPi_support patch in favour of sourcing these and possibly more recent patches directly from kernel branch rpi-3.18.y
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC kodi-001-helix_rpb_backports patch in favour of sourcing these and possibly more recent patches directly from newclock4 branch
  
• Default setting for "Show RSS Feed" changed to disabled (new installs only) [patch details]
  
• Disabled "Total Duration" in Confluence (see build #0221 for details)
  
• Adapted service.openelec.settings to take advantage of PR:5217 [patch details]
  
• Includes latest libnfs master (9c1d3848)
  
• Includes latest libcec master (9f000e43)
  
• Includes latest xbmc-pvr-addons master (28f0e748)
  
• Includes latest xbmc-addon-xvdr master (328fa653)
  
• Includes additional ffmpeg codecs/muxers enabled for testing/benchmarking purposes (see patch)
  
• Includes animated splash support (patch)
  
• Includes commits from libcec-2.2.0 (popcornmix)
  
• Exclude kodi-999.99-fix-3692.patch: Superseded by PR6005
  
• Exclude lirc_rpi.conf: No longer required, let Device Tree handle lirc_rpi (add "dtoverlay=lirc-rpi" to config.txt)
  
• Include patch: Enable kernel device-tree support (details)
  
• Include patch: Add device tree kernel trailer
  
• Include patch: Update to Linux 3.18.1
  
• Include patch: Add Linux 3.18.y options
  
• Include patch: Add Linux 3.18.y compatible cfg80211_rx_mgmt
  
• Include patch: Add *.dtb files to firmware
  
• Include PR:3657: [rfc] kodi crashlogs
  
• Include PR:5747: [database] - add setting for hiding watched movies/episodes in recently added lists
  
• Include PR:5752: [jsonrpc] Allow retrieving empty TV shows via VideoLibrary.GetTVShows.
  
• Include PR:5958: Fix state not saved after #5842 if playing from "Recently added".
  

Build Highlights:

1. Refactored sort methods, drop GL(ES) methods, support for closed captions.
   
2. [omxplayer] Skip packet concatenation for WMAV2 files (link)
   

Build Details:

1. OpenELEC:
   • linux: Clear media states on flush (PR:3720, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • Add support for Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo E lcd (PR:3722, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • ncurses: depends on package 'zlib' (1b55c37a)
     
   • busybox: update to busybox-1.23.0 (53c06e73)
     
   • binutils: update to binutils-2.25 (9d49b1a8)
     
   • busybox: fails to build with GOLD support enabled with binutils-2.25 (7a7f19d1)
     
   • replace duplicate KEY_OK with KEY_PLAY (cf00e574)
     
2. XBMC:
   • sorting: fix Container.SetSortMethod (fixes #15627) (PR:5977, 1 commit, 5 files changed)
     
   • Remove string initialization (PR:6026, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • RFC: removal of glGet* (PR:5775, 5 commits, 11 files changed)
     
   • CHG: [droid] do not h/w decode MP4 SD video (save on support) (PR:4815, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • sorting: cleanup and refactor to allow different sort orders for the different sort methods (PR:5959, 3 commits, 11 files changed)
     
   • Android StageFright and MediaCodec HEVC hw accel (PR:6034, 4 commits, 7 files changed)
     
   • [WIP] Add hevc support to amlcodec (PR:5493, 2 commits, 4 files changed)
     
   • fix GUISpinControl process (PR:6029, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • FIX: [aml] S812 can do 4K + check earlier (PR:5791, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
     
   • [pvr][cleanup] Cleanup things found by Cppcheck (PR:5812, 12 commits, 17 files changed)
     
   • add support for closed captions (PR:6030, 6 commits, 21 files changed)
     
   • dvdplayer: do not skip streaminfo if input format is unknown (PR:6036, 2 commits, 1 file changed)
     
   • [pvr] bump addons after #6036 (PR:6038, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
     
   • [Confluence] labels in PVR Search could overlap (PR:6040, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • dvdplayer: drop silly setting sync to audio when video reference clock i... (PR:6039, 1 commit, 3 files changed)
     
   • [skin] update re-touched (9d4644e0)
     
   • cosmetics: fix c&p'ed code comment in CVideoInfoTag::ToSortable() (71831c12)
     
3. kodi-pvr-addons:
   • vnsi: only consider video and audio streams for playing time (PR:394, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
     
   • pvr-addons: fix the mime type for mpegts (PR:397, 1 commit, 12 files changed)
     
4. newclock4:
   • New commits in this build:
     • [omxplayer] Skip packet concatenation for WMAV2 files (b6f0d5cb)
       
   • Commits no longer in build:
     • gl: avoid grabbing viewport on each render (eb59c270)
       
     • GL: switch to CPU based matrix caculations to match GLES (5a58cd2e)
       
     • GL(ES): Simplify matrix stack handling (266e3084)
       
     • fixup! GL(ES): Simplify matrix stack handling (04355c64)
       
     • squash: Fixup build after glGet (151c8b80)