[Milhouse]

New OpenELEC Gotham build: #0417b
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:

# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.14.1 #1 PREEMPT Thu Apr 17 18:47:34 BST 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
Apr 15 2014 14:57:55
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version c1dc12512d5fe9340b6a2ca9badf9441fe6675a8 (clean) (release)

# lsb_release
OpenELEC (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20140417184615-r18197-gb9ebd0b

Based on tip of OpenELEC master (b9ebd0b, changelog) and tip of XBMC master (ca6989d, changelog) with the following modifications:

• Includes newclock3 commits (except for a1349ee, a patch to avoid hammering the GUI, which has been replaced with a static spinner)
  
• Includes kernel 3.14.y commits
  
• Includes Python regex package for evaluation purposes. Initial benchmarking indicates generally positive (and in some cases, significant) performance gains. See this post for a description of how to test effectiveness of this package with addons
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC fernetmenta patches due to conflict with newclock3
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC gotham_rbp_backports patches in favour of sourcing these same patches directly from newclock3 branch
  
• 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
  
• FIQ FSM is enabled by default (dwc_otg.fiq_enable=1 dwc_otg.fiq_fsm_enable=1 dwc_otg.fiq_fsm_mask=0x7). See initial post for more details.
  

Build Highlights:

newclock3 has some vc1 optimisations from Ben Avison. Should be quite noticeable.
There's a couple of commits to rpi-3.14.y for fiq_fsm (should improve usb audio quality).

1. XBMC:
   • overlays: don't reduce ASS texture width unnecessarily (PR4518)
     
   • overlays: include padding in initial ASS texture width computation (PR4518)
     
2. newclock3:
   • Move the H.264 search code search functions into separate source files. This permits re-use with parsers for codecs which use similar start codes.
     
   • Add platform-specific start code search routine to VC1DSPContext. Initialise VC1DSPContext for parser as well as for decoder.
     
   • vc-1: Optimise parser (with special attention to ARM)
     
3. Kernel 3.14.y:
   • fiq_fsm: fix bounce buffer utilisation for Isochronous OUT
     
   • fiq_fsm: Implement timeout mechanism