[Milhouse]

New OpenELEC Helix build: #0510
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:

# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.14.3 #1 PREEMPT Sat May 10 03:05:14 BST 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
May  9 2014 16:49:41
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version c8ed097f7c23249e702bea3ed6b5720136ba00e4 (tainted) (release)

# lsb_release
OpenELEC_Helix (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20140510033218-r18364-gfb059ad

Based on tip of OpenELEC master (fb059ad, changelog) and tip of XBMC master (0ca9028, changelog) with the following modifications:

• Includes newclock3 (except for 15eee8d, a patch to avoid hammering the GUI, which has been replaced with a static spinner)
  
• 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 linux-01-RPi_support patch in favour of sourcing these and possibly more recent patches directly from kernel branch rpi-3.14.y
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC xbmc-master-newclock3 patch in favour of sourcing these and possibly more recent 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. See initial post for more details.
  

Build Highlights:

New firmware.

1. Firmware (May 09):
   • firmware: vdec3: h264: Improve results on some corrupt streams. See: #255
     
   • firmware: Update to HW cursor handling. Now supports overscan and arbitrary framebuffer sizes in GPU so X driver does not need to worry about it. See: link.
     
2. XBMC:
   • Unification of CGUIDialogSettings and CGUIWindowSettingsCategory (PR4512)
     
   • [pvr] rewrite of implementation for search of missing channel icons (PR4657)
     
   • [pvr] remember last watched group (PR3988)
     
   • AESinkPULSE: Start stream corked. Resume when starting to add packets (PR4670)
     
   • [gui] bump gui version to 5.0.2