(2013-01-11, 15:36)davilla Wrote: /sys/class/video/axis must have r/w permission change it and your aspect ratios will be correct.
Just checked an it already had rw-rw-w permissions, set it up rw-rw-rw.. aspect ratio is still off, the 1080 width is correct, but its stretching the vertical to fullscreen and not keeping the black bars at the top and bottom.
About to try the XIOS build of XBMC.
Edit:
Installed latest firmware which I can confirm what PeterK said about video's crashing in the 20130107 firmware. Can't find any XBMC build that will play video's without crashing. MX Player however is still working fine. Only difference is they've removed a lot of pre-installed apps like Facebook, Angry birds as far as I can tell. Running more tests to try and find a working solution for this firmware.
2nd Edit:
Automatic update is pointing towards
http://geniatech.net/down-eng/upgrade/stvmx/update.xml which contains
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Response ErrorCode="00">
<Versions >
<Version Updated="2012-07-04T19:42:00">
<!--
<Spi
id="spi20120704"
name="SP20120704.img"
verrec="V1.0.0-3-g61a9f15-dirty(20120704.000000)"
verubt="V1.0.0-3-g6482b5a-dirty(20120628.192537)"
verhw="MC4"
memsize="1024M"
boardname="stvmx"
customerId="0xCD000001"
MD5="56de920f02b988cc0d49ae0d9faa8b3b"
SizeInKB="2467"
URL="http://www.geniatech.net/down-eng/upgrade/stvmx/Spi/20120704/update_spi_mx_20120704.zip"
/>
<Basic
id="V1.03.01MX01_20120705"
name="PR20120705.img"
customerId="0xCD000001"
version="V1.03.01MX01_20120705"
MD5="fd8092ba66936994417a72f4f2908641"
SizeInKB="108236"
attribute="importance"
URL="http://www.geniatech.net/down-eng/upgrade/stvmx/Firmware/V1.03.01MX01_20120705/update_V1.03.01MX01_20120705_OS40_normal.zip"
/>
</Version>
<Version Updated="2013-01-11T13:00:30">
<Spi
id="spi20121210"
name="SP20121210.img"
verrec="26a77ab(20121210.164819)"
verubt="56a5de5(20121210.165348)"
verhw="MC4"
memsize="1024M"
format="media"
boardname="stvmx"
customerId="0xCD000001"
MD5="4c60bc2d4e1e7a7a12c3d7be68a6f174"
SizeInKB="2614"
URL="http://www.geniatech.net/down-eng/upgrade/stvmx/Spi/20121210/update_spi_mx_20121210.zip"
/>
<Basic
id="V1.03.04MX01_20121210"
name="PR20121210.img"
customerId="0xCD000001"
version="V1.03.04MX01_20121210"
MD5="cc28c1f99def16b9c0b8c69cf4d856ce"
SizeInKB="228970"
attribute="importance"
URL="http://www.geniatech.net/down-eng/upgrade/stvmx/Firmware/V1.03.04MX01_20121210/update_V1.03.04MX01_20121210_OS41_normal.zip"
/>
</Version>
-->
</Versions>
</Response>
Which is the same as the other 20121210 firmware so not sure why it made a difference. About to downgrade from the latest firmware back to the 20121210 with the 20121228 kernel
Last Edit (posting under android):
Okay so after a lot of testing tonight I've concluded that the latest firmware simply does not work what so ever with XBMC. To get XBMC working fairly well do the following.
1) Go into recovery mode (reset + power on)
2) Install the 20121210 SPI update
3) install the 20121210 Firmware update
4) Install the update_patch_xbmc.img (download from
http://www.oketuf.com/update_patch_XBMC.zip and rename from *.zip to *.img)
5) Reboot (may need to reboot twice)
6) Install Mygica build of XBMC (version 12 Beta 3) (
http://www.oketuf.com/MYGICA%2025-DEC%20...-debug.zip)
7) Should now be able to play HD movies in XBMC with hardware decoding. Still having issues with my aspect ratio though? Will post screenshots soon.
8) Change permissions on /sys/class/video/axis from rw-rw-r to rw-rw-rw (thanks Davilla) to enable changing the aspect, this still doesn't fix the above issue though as even if you zoom out it seems to be cropped.
Optional-----
9) Install Startup Manager (free) - Under user: Disable Youtube. Under System: disable OOBE, Contacts, preload installer, Phone, and anything else you don't need. Under Custom, add XBMC if you want it to boot straight into it.
10) Install Build Prop Editor, tweak settings such as the status bar at the bottom, set hw.nophone to true, etc.....
Time to research this aspect ratio problem. Hopefully this feedback is of some use.