[Milhouse]

New OpenELEC Helix build: #1207
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:

# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.17.5 #1 PREEMPT Mon Dec 8 00:12:31 GMT 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
Dec  3 2014 17:26:22
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 23776f83288e23b6d1fc197390f79cf4cc05f558 (clean) (release)

# lsb_release
OpenELEC (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20141208001121-r19746-g2640998 [Build #1207]

Based on tip of OpenELEC master (26409987, changelog) and tip of XBMC master (1a3f0694, changelog) with the following modifications:

• Includes newclock4 patches
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC fernetmenta patches due to conflicts with newclock4
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC linux-01-RPi_support patch in favour of sourcing these and possibly more recent patches directly from kernel branch rpi-3.17.y
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC xbmc-001-newclock4 patch in favour of sourcing these and possibly more recent patches directly from newclock4 branch
  
• Default setting for "Show RSS Feed" changed to disabled (new installs only) [patch details]
  
• Disabled "Total Duration" in Confluence (see build #0221 for details)
  
• Adapted service.openelec.settings to take advantage of PR:5217 [patch details]
  
• Includes latest libnfs master (9c1d3848)
  
• Includes latest libcec master (9f000e43)
  
• Includes latest xbmc-pvr-addons master (5eea1476)
  
• Includes latest xbmc-addon-xvdr master (328fa653)
  
• Includes additional ffmpeg codecs/muxers enabled for testing/benchmarking purposes (see patch)
  
• Includes animated splash support (patch)
  
• Includes commits from libcec-2.2.0 (popcornmix)
  
• Included pastebin: Add device tree kernel trailer
  
• Included pastebin: Enable kernel device-tree support
  
• Included pastebin: Add *.dtb files to firmware
  
• Included PR:3657: [rfc] kodi crashlogs
  
• Includes PR:5573: webserver: improved caching control (see discussion)
  
• Includes PR:5747: [database] - add setting for hiding watched movies/episodes in recently added lists
  
• Includes PR:5752: [jsonrpc] Allow retrieving empty TV shows via VideoLibrary.GetTVShows.
  
• Includes PR:5894: [addons] display a more helpful message on python script error
  

Build Highlights:

1. New kernel 3.17.5.
   
2. 6MB increase in SYSTEM size (103MB to 109MB) due to new OpenELEC firmwares - hope this doesn't cause a problem for anyone with a small FAT partition
   
3. Updated PR:3657 to avoid corrupting guisettings.xml
   

Build Details:

1. OpenELEC:
   • libmad: build static (168238a2)
     
   • Mesa: update to Mesa-10.3.5 (95b70ccf)
     
   • misc-firmware: update to misc-firmware-0.0.13 (f56cd29a)
     
   • wlan-firmware: update to wlan-firmware-0.0.26 (21a88047)
     
   • dvb-firmware: update to dvb-firmware-0.0.47 (e3f84e24)
     
   • linux: update to linux-3.17.5 (26409987)
     
2. XBMC:
   • [droid;mediacodec] Bunch of Mediacodec fixes (PR:5884, 7 commits, 1 file changed)
     
   • fix getting charset from http header, incorrect usage of constructor for... (PR:5893, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • fix audio/l16 format used by DLNA (PR:5889, 3 commits, 11 files changed)
     
   • [input/linux] - map KEY_BACK to xbmckey backspace - same like we do for ... (PR:5887, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • Update PIL package to prevent crash with some addons (PR:5880, 1 commit, 3 files changed)
     
   • replace webserver logo (PR:5896, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • FIX: [droid;aml] fix preview scaling (PR:5814, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • [Android-5.0] fix playback getting progressively slower and memory filling up until cr... (PR:5898, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • VAAPI: Give User of broken wrappers a chance to test their wrappers (PR:5429, 1 commit, 3 files changed)
     
   • [rebrand][icons] New Kodi icon sets by @fastcolors (PR:5882, 7 commits, 65 files changed)
     
   • [aml] Do not disable keyboard auto-repeat for Meson6 and higher (PR:5890, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • [rebrand] new linux icons (PR:5892, 1 commit, 9 files changed)
     
   • [rebrand][github information files] Update to Kodi links (PR:5900, 2 commits, 2 files changed)
     
   • dvdplayer: defer release of ffmpeg hw decoder after next decode, deletin... (PR:5901, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
     
   • [pvr] bump addons (language files sync) (PR:5902, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
     
   • [addons] sync with repo (9290bdba)
     
   • [lang] added missing langinfo.xml files for new languages (1a3f0694)
     
3. kernel 3.17.y:
   • New commits in this build:
     • config: Enable device tree (513244c6)