| 18:23 | rdorsch> | For all cubox-i users: It seems that libreelec 10 nightly builds start to become useful with the mainline stack. At least h264 seems to work well, mpegs have still issues. |
| 18:27 | vpeter> | After how many years there is a progress? :) |
| 18:28 | vpeter> | At least now they know how to make single image and not at least 2 for dual and quad soc. |
| 18:29 | rdorsch> | There is a -dl and a -q image: Kontoauszug_1006456097_Nr_2020_005_per_2020_10_02.pdf |
| 18:29 | rdorsch> | sorry, wrong paste |
| 18:29 | rdorsch> | https://test.libreelec.tv/ |
| 18:29 | rdorsch> | would have been the right one |
| 18:30 | rdorsch> | But I have the impression that it took long is not LEs fault. |
| 18:30 | rdorsch> | I think there were pieces missing in mesa |
| 18:31 | rdorsch> | and as I wrote, mpeg still do not play. |
| 18:33 | vpeter> | I know there are 2 images. Which is stupid. But I gave them informations how to make just one image like in the past (in my days). They don't have much i.mx6 knowledge :-) |
| 18:36 | rdorsch> | Yes, unfortunately, they don't. It seems in general they do not have plenty of bandwidth. |
| 18:36 | vpeter> | Well, it is their and kodi fault to use linux version not suitable for media player :-) |
| 18:37 | rdorsch> | do you mean them mainline stack? |
| 18:38 | rdorsch> | What is the suitable linux version ? |
| 18:46 | vpeter> | The one where media playback works. |
| 18:46 | vpeter> | Same thing is with amlogic. Mainline still lacks lot of features. |
| 18:51 | rdorsch> | The proprietary stack has also some problems, the cubox-i crashes whenever I use a stream of the "ZDF Mediathek" addon. Works nicely on the mainline stack now. |
| 18:51 | rdorsch> | On mainline there is at least some hope that things can easier debugged and improved. |
| 18:52 | rdorsch> | I bought a wetek play for my parents. Wifi stability is poor there. I think wifi has the potential to cause system hangs and even corrupt file systems there. |
| 18:55 | rdorsch> | Overall, I think not that much is missing that mainline reaches the level of the proprietary stack. And first usable result are there :-) |
| 18:56 | vpeter> | How long was cubox-i useless for le? 2 years. And there will be another 1 or 2 until it get perfect support. Which is a shame for such expensive device. |
| 18:57 | Ke> | wow, there's discussion here |
| 19:07 | vpeter> | Maybe new times are coming. 2021 :) |
| 19:07 | rdorsch> | yes, but is this LEs fault? I think solid run should have distributed more devices to the LE developers (I am not part of it). I would maybe not have helped with the 2 past years but at least to get it good supported from the current state it might have helped. |
| 19:13 | Ke> | maybe, but most sane distros should just work, if you support upstream projects |
| 19:13 | vpeter> | LE never had real imx6 dev. Even more devices would not help. |
| 19:31 | rdorsch> | I think having access to a test device makes a huge difference to do blind builds (even if they have no real imx6 devs) |
| 19:33 | rdorsch> | @Ke I agree, but is seems that imx6 is not yet there to run w/o issues with mainline. |
| 19:44 | vpeter> | LE has devices. |
| 20:00 | rdorsch> | ok, I just concluded from the statement of chewitt (one of the more active developers) "imx6, it's probably the only SoC in our lineup that I've never owned" the LE has no devices, but that might not apply to all LE developers (though I do not know an active one which has an imx6 based device) |
| 20:02 | vpeter> | I'm sure lrusak has it. |
| 22:20 | rdorsch> | not sure, if lrusak is still active in LE. I have not seen a contribution in the LE git repo since half a year and just one minor comment on IRC in the past two months. |
| 22:21 | rdorsch> | I see him on the kodi IRC channel though. |
| 22:22 | rdorsch> | Since I understand that kodi uses mainline architecture independent infrastructure, I would conclude that lrusak is not working on imx6 anymore. |
| 22:22 | rdorsch> | last imx6 specific stuff I have seen in LE was from by-gnome |