[Milhouse]

New OpenELEC Helix build: #0615
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:

# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.15.0 #1 PREEMPT Sun Jun 15 18:35:11 BST 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
Jun 11 2014 21:58:47
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 1c83e62ffada9bbd52307c82be22b84620025b9c (clean) (release)

# lsb_release
OpenELEC_Helix (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20140615185039-r18605-gf802a3a

Based on tip of OpenELEC master (f802a3a, changelog) and tip of XBMC master (3c557ed, 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-3.15.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. Also double-key suppression.
  
• 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")
  
• Includes libnfs master with directory caching support
  

Build Highlights:

New firmware with support for higher resolution displays.
This build drops @bavison PR3717 (Add caching of infolabels) in favour of PR4919 (More efficient info label assembling) - is the new PR any better (or worse)?

1. Firmware (Jun 11):
   • display: Relax some conditions to allow higher resolution displays. See: link
     
2. OpenELEC:
   • busybox: add 'morequiet' kernel command line option
     
   • systemd: update to systemd-214
     
   • systemd: dont install etc/xdg
     
   • systemd: add systemd-network user/group
     
   • avahi-daemon: dont depend on syslog.target
     
   • openssh: dont depend on syslog.target
     
   • cron: dont depend on syslog.target
     
   • tmpfiles.d: cleanup. rename
     
   • openssl: enable 'ec', 'ecdh' and 'ecdsa' support
     
   • projects/*/linux: enable CONFIG_HID_XINMO
     
   • projects/*/linux: enable CONFIG_VIDEO_USBTV support, this fixes #3140
     
   • wlan-firmware: update to wlan-firmware-0.0.23
     
3. XBMC:
   • cosmetics (PR:4889, 3 commits, 2 files changed)
     
   • ActiveAE: set stream volume to fading target if fading time is zero (PR:4878, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • Add new apache date format for file listings in http sources (PR:4610, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • paplayer: update xfade time before using it to set initial volume (PR:4888, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • [osx] - handle the VDA HW Acceleration setting same as all others (inste... (PR:4765, 1 commit, 3 files changed)
     
   • [Fix][JSON] Fix re-set locale after using yajl (PR:4881, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • [cximage] - fix big memory leak in raw image decoder - thx to smf007 for (PR:4891, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • [videoinfoscanner] no need to prepare paths to clean in case we're not going to use them (PR:4897, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • Drop CStdStringArray, SplitString, JoinString (PR:4684, 28 commits, 102 files changed)
     
   • AE: Fix Delay after c91fe5efad7e0546b3c3a7abba9f93baaaa39799 (PR:4900, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • [AML] Memory leak while Dispose (PR:4898, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • Faster infobool expression evaluation (PR:3677, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
     
   • [osx] - only show the fake fullscreen option on snow leopard (PR:4894, 3 commits, 4 files changed)
     
   • [AE/osxsink] - don't set the altered outputformat which might have wrong channel count (PR:4899, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • fftfixes (PR:4913, 3 commits, 2 files changed)
     
   • bad boolean type given to dbus (PR:4887, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • [android] fix extraction of ndk version for 64bit ndk (PR:4914, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • change: Remove dropped "audiohost" from advancedsettings (PR:4892, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
     
   • [win32] don't hide option to install DirectX if already installed. (PR:4882, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • Delete sound in CActiveAE:iscardSound (PR:4883, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • Cleanup node type (PR:4916, 2 commits, 2 files changed)
     
   • ActiveAE: fix caching for streams (PR:4902, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
     
   • FIX: support accents in ToUpper/ToLower (PR:4861, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • [log] remove 'Unknown nodetype' logs - they're not really useful (PR:4895, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
     
   • [logging] log if the network is unavailable in CFileFactory, ref #15291
     
   • ADD: [droid] backdoor to define XBMC_HOME and HOME on android (PR:4076, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
     
4. newclock3:
   • ActiveAE: delay creation of viz buffers until they are needed
     
   • dvdplayer: fix incorrectly indicated buffered samples after ae7cda6629c7180430a25d834ea83ab5d9f47d77
     
   • videorefclock: drop obsolete ati workaround
     
   • videorefclock: drop obsolete GetRandRRate
     
   • videorefclock: make refresh rate floating point
     
   • gles: Avoid crash when capturing snapshot when using dvdplayer (see link)
     
   • Use PR4919 (More efficient info label assembling) in place of PR3717 (Add caching of infolabels)