2014-03-27, 03:47
New OpenELEC Gotham build: #0327
(Supercedes previous build)
Based on tip of XBMC master (1bb64ef, changelog) and tip of OpenELEC master (facbb1c, changelog) with the following modifications:
Fix for mono GUI sounds (requires new firmware)
Additional Testing Notes:
(Supercedes previous build)
Code:
# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.13.7 #1 PREEMPT Thu Mar 27 01:28:24 GMT 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux
# vcgencmd version
Mar 25 2014 15:17:24
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 34a027868674ccc896149263215e91718770698f (clean) (release)
# lsb_release
OpenELEC (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20140327012712-r18014-gfacbb1c
Based on tip of XBMC master (1bb64ef, changelog) and tip of OpenELEC master (facbb1c, changelog) with the following modifications:
- Includes newclock3 commits (except for 7b5ce9c which I've replaced with a static spinner to avoid hammering the GUI)
- Excludes the OpenELEC fernetmenta patches (due to conflict with newclock3)
- Includes Python regex package for evaluation purposes. Initial benchmarking indicates generally positive (and in some cases, significant) performance gains. Replace "import re" with "import regex as re" in addons to test effectiveness.
- 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)
Fix for mono GUI sounds (requires new firmware)
- New Firmware Mar 27:
- kernel: Add CONFIG_VETH for virtual ethernet devices. See: raspberrypi/linux#550
- kernel: V4L2: Add manual white balance control
- firmware: audio_mixer: Fix bug that loses second channel with 8-bit input. See: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1664162
- firmware: MMAL: Add parameter to enable SEI on the encoder. See: raspberrypi/userland#144
- firmware: MMAL: Correct rounding for EV steps See: raspberrypi/userland#34
- firmware: camera: Correct EXIF handling to always update. See: raspberrypi/userland#83
- kernel: Add CONFIG_VETH for virtual ethernet devices. See: raspberrypi/linux#550
- newclock3:
- [PiSink] Analogue only supports stereo
- [PiResample] Work around AE not providing correct src_bits
- [PiSink] Analogue only supports stereo
Additional Testing Notes:
- Testers should try adding the following entry to their advancedsettings.xml:
and report if it is better/worse than omxplayer. You can still play files with omxplayer using the context-menu "Play using... OMXPlayer".Code:<advancedsettings>
<video>
<defaultplayer>dvdplayer</defaultplayer>
<defaultdvdplayer>dvdplayer</defaultdvdplayer>
</video>
</advancedsettings>
- The following settings are no longer required in config.txt and should be removed:
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).Code:no_hdmi_resample=1
hdmi_stream_channels=1
- 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