OpenELEC Testbuilds for RaspberryPi (Kodi 17.0)
The zero-copy change is a big improvement - particularly if sdram is overclocked! Many thanks @popcornmix and colleagues.

However I have found a couple of HEVC regressions (oddly enough, only with Big Buck Bunny 1080 and 720p, both .ts files (bbb_720p_c.ts and bbb_1080p_c.ts - download using "Save as..."). Tested over both smb:// and nfs://.

Config: RPi2, arm_freq=1000, core_freq=500, gpu_freq=400

First regression:

When playing HEVC Big Buck Bunny 1080p (.ts) with stock 450MHz sdram - which I know isn't really playable - playback will repeatedly restart at about 1m24s (although it sometimes varies a bit). Note that "Repeat" is off, so it's not stopping and restarting - it's just restarting...

However with sdram_freq=600 (over_voltage_sdram=5, sdram_schmoo=0x02000020), the same video plays without restarting (there is some minor slow down while zooming into the burrow at start, and villians emerging from grass at ~5m03s, otherwise it's pretty much perfect - total 15 skipped frames, 5 missed).

Maybe there's some memory-bottleneck induced playback error that causes the restart? The 720p version of Big Buck Bunny will play through to the end with sdram=450.

Debug log with 450MHz sdram: http://sprunge.us/GVPU (1080p playback restarted itself two times at timestamp 1m24s, then a third time at timestamp 1m26s)

Second regression:

With HEVC Big Buck Bunny 1080p OR Big Buck Bunny 720p, and with sdram_freq=450 or 600, any attempt to seek will restart playback from the beginning. All my other HEVC samples don't suffer from this seek/restart issue. I tested an mpeg2 ts - this had no seek issues.

Debug log with 600MHz sdram: http://sprunge.us/QEeV (seeking using BigStepForward - each time playback restarts)

Presumably these two regressions are linked somehow.
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RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for RaspberryPi (Kodi 17.0) - by Milhouse - 2016-02-10, 03:12
RPI 3 no internet access on wifi - by b1m1 - 2016-03-09, 14:44
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