[Milhouse]

New OpenELEC Gotham build: #0323
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:

# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.13.6 #1 PREEMPT Sun Mar 23 19:24:43 GMT 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
Mar 19 2014 23:26:47
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 98eb97cd0061f2fcff808fe5f32f851d5eada1ee (tainted) (release)

# lsb_release
OpenELEC (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20140323195651-r17998-g56d655f

Based on tip of XBMC master (fd16d0b, changelog) and tip of OpenELEC master (56d655f, changelog) with the following modifications:

• Includes newclock3 commits (except for c81d1ef which I've replaced with a static spinner to avoid hammering the GUI)
  
• Includes [url=]kernel 3.13.y-next commits[/url] (see below for details on enabling FIQ_FSM patch)
  
• 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)
  

Build Highlights:

1. OpenELEC:
   • tvheadend: update to tvheadend-3.9.467
     
   • Latest FIQ FSM patches accepted into OpenELEC
     
   • PR4445: Add xbmc.stopSFX() to the python xbmc module.
     
2. XBMC:
   • Memphiz Airplay fixes now in XBMC master
     
   • Several paplayer fixes from Fernetmenta/popcornmix
     
   • Various AE fixes, subtitle fixes.
     
3. newclock3:
   • [players] Increase timeout to 60 seconds - This seems to be the cause of large wtv files failing to play
     

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Additional Testing Notes:

1. Testers should try adding the following entry to their advancedsettings.xml:
   
   Code:

   <advancedsettings>
  <video>
    <defaultplayer>dvdplayer</defaultplayer>
    <defaultdvdplayer>dvdplayer</defaultdvdplayer>
  </video>
</advancedsettings>
   and report if it is better/worse than omxplayer. You can still play files with omxplayer using the context-menu "Play using... OMXPlayer".
   

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2. The following settings are no longer required in config.txt and should be removed:
   
   Code:

   no_hdmi_resample=1
hdmi_stream_channels=1
   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).
   

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3. 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