[Milhouse]

New OpenELEC Helix build: #0529
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:

# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.14.4 #1 PREEMPT Thu May 29 02:25:30 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-20140529022418-r18484-gd0a7ab5

Based on tip of OpenELEC master (d0a7ab5, changelog) and tip of XBMC master (f6db665, changelog) with the following modifications:

• Includes newclock3 patches
  
• 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.
  
• Includes RPi-specific libCEC commits from mk01/libcec. See build #0527 for details.
  
• Increase scan interval of PeripBusCEC from 5000 to 60000, reducing CPU loading by about 2% (1GHz Pi) every 5 seconds (even when CEC is "disabled")
  

Build Highlights:

Added basic usage tracking (see Testing Note #3 in OP).
Fix for multichannel PCM mapping, one of the big Gotham bugs (issue #3217).

1. OpenELEC:
   • systemd: update to systemd-213
     
2. XBMC:
   • ActiveAE: stop processing passthrough packets for paused streams, fixes audio glitch on pause (PR:4801)
     
3. newclock3:
   • ActiveAE: do not feed free buffers to stream if cache is full
     
   • [omxplayer] Fix for mapping of multichannel PCM audio (issue #3217)