[Milhouse]

New OpenELEC Helix build: #0523
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:

# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.14.4 #1 PREEMPT Fri May 23 21:05:16 BST 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
May 23 2014 19:17:25
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 21d0de90961749983d49ec4e819a98a8ba4287fc (clean) (release)

# lsb_release
OpenELEC_Helix (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20140523210406-r18445-g5e66498

Based on tip of OpenELEC master (5e66498, changelog) and tip of XBMC master (3d44377, changelog) with the following modifications:

• Includes newclock3 (except for 1645c74, 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 fernetmenta patches due to conflicts with newclock3
  
• 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 (display_power command and other hdmi related improvements) - should allow rbphdmi to work without restarting xbmc.bin.
Video db update from v78 -> v79.

1. Firmware (May 23):
   • firmware: dispmanx: Limit LBM usage on any channel. See: #277
     
   • firmware: MMAL: vc_image: Fix some of the combinations for vc_image_pack
     
   • firmware: MMAL: Don't ask for YUVUV when tearing down an opaque tunnel. See link.
     
   • firmware: gencmd: Add display_power command for controlling power to hdmi phy
     
   • firmware: config: Add hdmi_force_mode option to force only one mode. See link.
     
   • firmware: hdmi: Make configured mode have high score, so it is respected after power on preferred
     
   • firmware: hdmi: Call the callback with current hdmi mode, not preferred. See link.
     
   • firmware: dispmanx: Move the offline/rotated buffer allocation into attach function. See link.
     
2. OpenELEC:
   • vdr-addon: add option to override epg charset (PR:3248)
     
   • tvheadend: update to tvheadend-3.9.681 (PR:3250)
     
   • installer: fix misleading menu entry (PR:3253)
     
   • bump vdr (PR:3254)
     
   • service.openelec.settings: update to service.openelec.settings-0.3.17
     
3. XBMC:
   • UserAgent fixes (PR:4681)
     
   • [pydocs] remove httpapi not implemented message. (PR:4745)
     
   • [darwin] fix building from user set prefix path. move XBMC_DEPENDS_ROOT ... (PR:4747)
     
   • Fix Python error with non-US-ASCII paths, fixes #14990 (PR:4752)
     
   • EpgContainer: Fix Deadlock when calling Observer with lock (PR:4751)
     
   • upnp: provide our own User-Agent and Server HTTP header values (PR:4733)
     
   • [infobools] Expose m_dpmsIsActive to skins/plugins/scripts as "System.DPMSActive" (PR:4760)
     
   • [addons] extend repo check to 24 hours (PR:4750)
     
   • [language] Update language/Catalan/langinfo.xml (PR:3636)
     
   • Win32: cmyth remove local copy of mysqlclient and inttypes.h (PR:4016)
     
   • [omxplayer] Support stereo view modes with scaling (PR:4703)
     
   • [omxplayer] Support hdmi framerate changes during video (PR:4710)
     
   • [omxplayer] Ignore occasionally valid pts values (PR:4708)
     
   • [omxplayer] Fix for aspect ratio of portrait videos (PR:4706)
     
   • [omxplayer] When in dual audio mode, make one output the slave (PR:4705)
     
   • [omx] Skip the resize when not needed when decoding jpegs (PR:4709)
     
   • libcec: Make verbose logging optional (PR:4746)
     
   • [omxplayer] Remove unused framerate functions (PR:4704)
     
   • videodb: add seasonview and refactor GetSeasonsNav() (PR:4724)
     
   • ActiveAE: Properly set m_encodedRate when transcoding (PR:4767)
     
   • ActiveAE: allow sinks to return planar formats (PR:4714)