XBMC v12 beta 2 on Mele A2000 4.0.3 - fails
#1
I don't have permission to start a new thread in this forum but I can reply... so this response has nothing to do with your weather location issue (sorry).

Subject: XBMC v12 beta 2 on Mele A2000 4.0.3 - fails

Hardware:
Mele A2000 (Allwinner A10)

OS:
Factory installed android 4.0.3

XBMC:
xbmc v12.0 beta2
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/releases/android...bi-v7a.apk

Result:
-Installed APK
-First run had the XBMC logo and a loader bar
-After it finished loading for the first time it quit to the home screen
-Any further attempt to run XBMC fails back to the home screen immediately

Is there a way to turn on a debug log and if so where would it be dumped to?
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#2
I have a mele A2000 too. I´m using to see videos from a debian server. Using MX player app is ok, but when I tried to use XBMC...not so good, video is very very very slow ( any kind of videos... avi, mp4, mkv, ... ).

Slide show not working too.

Only music is fine.

Is there any configuration to do?

Thanks a lot
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#3
It shouldn't be crashing, but the poor video playback is expected. the A10 SoCs aren't very powerful, and we don't have hardware video decoding for A10s. We don't have hardware decoding on most Android systems, so any video playback requires a fairly powerful CPU, and even then will be limited to some 720 videos.
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#4
MX Player works fine on my system, even streaming video using "CIFS Manager".
MX Player is using "MX Player Codec (ARMv7 NEON)" of course.

I thought XBMC and MX Player both used FFMPEG for their backends? Isn't there some code sharing that can be used to get XBMC to work?
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#5
For software decoding, they probably both use ffmpeg, but for hardware decoding it's done differently. MX Player's dev most likely signed an NDA with various hardware chip makers in order to tap into hardware decoding, which isn't an option for XBMC. On top of that, there really isn't a standard API for hardware video decoding in Android (which always seemed crazy to me), so in some cases hardware decoding will be dependent on the specific hardware inside.

There are efforts to make do some "catch all/most" hardware video decoding for Android that might work in the future. Development on hardware decoding is very active.

There's also some weird build someone found that should work on A10 hardware. We're not sure what's exactly up with this XBMC build. It seems someone just stripped out all the XBMC references and are using some kind of special video player (if I understand correctly, it behaves similar to an external video player), but it might work for you: http://vidon.me/download/vidonme.apk (thread about it is http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=148320 )
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#6
(2012-12-17, 07:57)Ned Scott Wrote: There's also some weird build someone found that should work on A10 hardware. We're not sure what's exactly up with this XBMC build. It seems someone just stripped out all the XBMC references and are using some kind of special video player (if I understand correctly, it behaves similar to an external video player), but it might work for you: http://vidon.me/download/vidonme.apk (thread about it is http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=148320 )

I think we should not give him the coverage, while nobody has received the sources yet. Up to this point is is still a GPL violator.
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#7
I think it's likely the same people who did DVDFab, which used XBMC before and have provided sources. They're just a little show about it.
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#8
I know, but if you are a good GPL fellow, the first thing you do it uploading the binary for your customers, the second is uploading the sources of it.

Delaying the second part till someone asks, or only sent it to customers who requests it behind doors. Although compliant at that exact moment, to me it sounds like arrogance and ignorance rather then a "little show". It is a practice which is bad for GPL as a whole.
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#9
Fair point. Also, looking closer at it, I'm not sure it is the DVDFab people. They are, at least, in partnership with each other, but I can't get even so much as an address or PO Box for the Vidonme people.
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