OpenELEC presentation for PLEX?

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Keep up the good work. When there is an new version i will test it.


After playing around some more with this I think I'm going to move away from a combo build. And just fall in line with OE and do 3 builds. There should be a test5 up, where I changed things so Textures.xbt is built on every run and the XML config files for xbmc/plexht actually end up on the build now. Test6 is Intel only. Should be next to the old builds.


- Mark

NOTE: test5 only runs on Atom.
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HDMI might be an asound.conf setting that needs to be set. But havn't gotten that far yet. Small steps :D Just want a stable build running first.

- Mark

where can i found the asound.conf file?

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where can i found the asound.conf file?


Have you tried with test7?


- Mark
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No I Will test iT soon.

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Have you tried with test7?


- Mark

i have it tested on my HTPC. I get an boot loop. After creating the file, I get the Plex logo it disappears and comes back all the time. 

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i have it tested on my HTPC. I get an boot loop. After creating the file, I get the Plex logo it disappears and comes back all the time.


I wonder why nothing really changed. Will up a new build that completed from a clean build.

Any debug logs or anything to indicate why?


- Mark
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I wonder why nothing really changed. Will up a new build that completed from a clean build.

Any debug logs or anything to indicate why?


- Mark

I did run it without install.  I will install it when I'm home. 

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I did run it without install. I will install it when I'm home.


FYI I only added debugging to live boot.


- Mark
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I have created an other USB drive, now it will boot correctly. But still no audio.

I have tried to check the log/debug file, but i can't find it in the folders i can access with SSH. I will give it try tomorrow.

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I have created an other USB drive, now it will boot correctly. But still no audio.
I have tried to check the log/debug file, but i can't find it in the folders i can access with SSH. I will give it try tomorrow.


Here's a thought. Wouldn't you require the ION build for the netbook perhaps (due early next week)? And for the HTPC, could you try this:

turn speaker config to 2.0
turn dts and ac3 off
audio -> hdmi

Also test8 which is a total clean build should be up. I'm doing a clean build right now based on an upstream sync from OE 3.2.3+ These last two builds are with DEBUG=yes and are 50MB larger. Hoping to get some debug information out of this.

CTRL+ALT+F3 should drop one to a shell. Or use ssh ofc.

- Mark
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Here's a thought. Wouldn't you require the ION build for the netbook perhaps (due early next week)? And for the HTPC, could you try this:

turn speaker config to 2.0
turn dts and ac3 off
audio -> hdmi

Also test8 which is a total clean build should be up. I'm doing a clean build right now based on an upstream sync from OE 3.2.3+ These last two builds are with DEBUG=yes and are 50MB larger. Hoping to get some debug information out of this.

CTRL+ALT+F3 should drop one to a shell. Or use ssh ofc.

- Mark

Yes i have Audio!!!

I turned HMDI on and set Audio output device on HDS Intel PCH, Sam SyncMaster ON HDMI. This is with Test7. 

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Yes i have Audio!!!

I turned HMDI on and set Audio output device on HDS Intel PCH, Sam SyncMaster ON HDMI. This is with Test7.


Can you try 3.2.3-test1. It's the latest branch and fixes.


- Mark
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Built a virt image from the latest commits, seems to be working. Wont be able to test with Intel until the weekend.

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Built a virt image from the latest commits, seems to be working. Wont be able to test with Intel until the weekend.


Nice, I did an ION build too. And just to make sure things were done cleanly I rebuilt my build VM and. So know I know the src tree works on a clean Ubuntu install. The patch/hack I'm using for doing PHT texture compression with an external TexturePacker has been added upstream, so for future PHT releases the patch will be removed from within my OE tree.


- Mark
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Just wanted to report that your ION-build worked quite nicely! :)

Only have TV-speakers on that setup, but it plays just fine through the hdmi-cable. 

Thanks for your work with this!!

/Fredrik

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Tested the x86 build on my Intel NUC using USB Live and seems to work pretty well.  Remote control was fine. Audio was fine once I changed a few settings to HDMI, but had to do this with Plexbmc as well so expected that.  Playback was good even with the high bit rate blueray rips.  Got odd graphics flickering in the menus occasionally, the panel graphics would flicker between the new image and the previous image until I changed menu.

Couldn't find a way to put the unit into standby from the remote.  The menu option to quit just shuts down the machine, is this due to it being the live rather than the installed version?

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Tested the x86 build on my Intel NUC using USB Live and seems to work pretty well. Remote control was fine. Audio was fine once I changed a few settings to HDMI, but had to do this with Plexbmc as well so expected that. Playback was good even with the high bit rate blueray rips. Got odd graphics flickering in the menus occasionally, the panel graphics would flicker between the new image and the previous image until I changed menu.

Couldn't find a way to put the unit into standby from the remote. The menu option to quit just shuts down the machine, is this due to it being the live rather than the installed version?


Glad to hear it's working on your NUC. I've heard the flickering reports before. What version were you testing?
As for the shutdown instead of sleep, I'm not sure why that is. Depends on what the sleep command in the skin is mapped to. I will have to investigate that.

Thanks for the feedback.


- Mark
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I'm testing 3.2.3-test1.  To clarify on the shutdown/sleep issue, the power button on the remote doesn't do anything so as you say it might be a mapping issue.

Thanks for your efforts on this Mark - I'm sure the community really appreciates your time.

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Hi.

I've tried your ION test1 build on my Zotac ID41

The live-version works great, but only with ethernet.

When I try to exit PHT I've got the same loop like mentioned before. Plex disappears and comes back again. So I can't configure WLAN.

I've tried to install it on a clean HD, but the first boot after install i got an error "Error in prepare_sysroot: mount_common: Could not mount /dev/System"

The original ION Version 3.2.3 works great on my Zotac.

Any Idea how to install it ?

The live-version is just what I'm looking for !!!

Great work !!

Edit:

Ok, I've managed to install it on my hd.

In your install-routine the systemdrive is created with only 256MB.

I've grown the partition an made a custom install.

Now it boots from hd.

But ist there a way to configure WLAN ?

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Hi.
I've tried your ION test1 build on my Zotac ID41
The live-version works great, but only with ethernet.
When I try to exit PHT I've got the same loop like mentioned before. Plex disappears and comes back again. So I can't configure WLAN.
I've tried to install it on a clean HD, but the first boot after install i got an error "Error in prepare_sysroot: mount_common: Could not mount /dev/System"

The original ION Version 3.2.3 works great on my Zotac.

Any Idea how to install it ?

The live-version is just what I'm looking for !!!
Great work !!

Edit:

Ok, I've managed to install it on my hd.
In your install-routine the systemdrive is created with only 256MB.
I've grown the partition an made a custom install.
Now it boots from hd.
But ist there a way to configure WLAN ?


I havnt tampered with any of the install routines, they are from the original OpenELEC base, but I will have a looke at this at some point.
The loop would be because of PHT running as the default X app, and when you exit it X restarts, I would expect that.
I believe I added debugging to the boot options. So there should be a shell on CTRL+ALT+F3.
I haven't had time to get to the OpenELEC config menu for setting up WLAN etc, that's is one of the things that ofc needs to be fixed. I just prioritized this lower than getting the build up to a working state.


- Mark