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Let's continue the android discussion started in the other Allwinner A10 thread here.
I received my Mele A1000 today but I have some issues playing media. I tried the following players:
1) BSplayer: HW mode doesn't work when streaming media over the network.
2) MX Player: No sound (HDMI) when playing .mkv
3) Pre-installed player: Same as MX Player.
4) Moboplayer: Doesn't start playing at all.
5) mvideoplayer: Same as MX Player
Live TV streams from TVHeadend doesn't seem to work either (audio out of sync or no playback at all).
Anyone knows a fix for the HDMI audio and/or a good player for Allwinner A10?
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davilla
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going to move this to off-topic as it has nothing to do with xbmc-general-discussion
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Looks like only AC3 audio works under android (MX player). Movies with DTS audio won't give me sound over HDMI. Also HTTP streams (TVHeadend) have a lot of problems with lag and out of sync audio.
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Using android will this box mount and play DVD ISO files located on a shared network drive?
Can it display the DVD menu?
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I can't get this to work for the life of me for my Mini X, despite finding what someone else has confirmed as a Mini X friendly Android 4.0 image. I image the card, put it in, and it boots up like normal with no FW update. I suspect that it might be my microSD card, but I read a lot of people having issues regardless of microSD card used, and the same microSD cards being able to install linux.
I did notice there seems to be some other method of updating, as there is an "Update" app on the unit, but it's all in Chinese. There are some buttons, including online update and local update, with local update leading to two more buttons called "OTA update" and something about selecting an image. Does anyone know what is up with that? None of the buttons seem to do anything. I've tried various combinations of things, like using OTA update, online update, local image, having the img file on a FAT formatted mSD card, having the img file "burned" to the mSD card, etc.
I can't select any of the instruction text to put into google translate, but it seems parts of it talk about img files and SD cards. Might be an alternative update method.
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2012-07-01, 08:26
(This post was last modified: 2012-07-01, 08:30 by minibeardeath.)
@Ned_scott I used the image from the CNX site linked above, and everything but the remote control works great. As mentioned in another thread I need to get the hardware decocding working, but otherwise the install process was 100% painless. Try a different card (specifically try regular SD as opposed to SDHC) I am going to try the official release (the one from CNX is unofficial) right now and report back if it works or not.
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Seems the Mini X does have a USB port that will connect to a computer. Both are female ports and will normally work as USB host, but when unplugged from power, and using a male to male USB cable, pluging into the one labeled "USB OTG" connects the Mini X. I'll try that other method in a bit. Thanks for the tip!.
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Ned Scott: are you using Android 4 or 2.3 right now? Now that you mention the USB OTG port I realized that it too does not function properly using the currently available Mele android 4.0 image (this in addition to the IR not working). I am currently await reply to an email I sent to Pineriver to see if they have an ICS image that we can use. As I said before everything seems to work well, but my heat issue might be related to to using the mele img.
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