128 replies to this topic

[betacentauri]

I wouldn't call athoiks solution no workaround. If it works, it only means using dmm dvbmediasink (like on dreamboxes) for VU+ boxes...

[macnuts]

@betacentauri:

Original openpli with patched dvbmediasink + 24.12 drivers (my previous reply was somehow broken, you could missed it).

 

@SatKiekerd:

I was curious about your particular problem with sound + hbbtv + 24.12 drivers.

I put 24.12 drivers into openPLi and I have no problems with sound or hbbtv. No setting for acc downmix of course, nad ac3 is passthrough.

[Stefan]

Hbbtv is working Well with the new drivers and fast also and what do i have to install to get it working ?

[Rob van der Does]

@SatKiekerd:
I was curious about your particular problem with sound + hbbtv + 24.12 drivers.
I put 24.12 drivers into openPLi and I have no problems with sound or hbbtv. No setting for acc downmix of course, nad ac3 is passthrough.

I was curious if this woulp provoke issues.
As I said: if it doesn't PLi apparently doesn't support the AAC-pasthrough/downmix as embedded in the 12/12 drivers (confirmed by Littleat), so I have no idea what influence that has.
What I do know is that on images that do support this functionality (VTi/BH/ViX) AAC-downmix has to be enabled to get sound in HbbTV.

[littlesat]

Absert that the downmix setting is required for acc.... If this is really required then leave it on all time...

At least no issues here with et boxes with hbbtv and sound...

Edited by littlesat, 25 December 2013 - 11:23.

[Rob van der Does]

Absert that the downmix setting is required for acc....

Don't get angry, I'm just the messenger!

[Rob van der Does]

I think there is a bit of misunderstanding here.

The 12/12 VU-drivers support AAC-pass-through (until then they were always being downmixed). Pass-through means that the AAC-bitstream is offered to the amplifier.
Knowing that many AC3/DTS-compatible amp's are not AAC-compatible, a separate AAC-downmix option is available. So people can use the STB-amp for AC3 & DTS-bitstream and without changing settings also AAC-(downmixed) PCM. And people having a more capable amp can use the bitstream (downmix off) for all audio-formats.

Sounds good, doesn't it?

[athoik]

Hello,

 

 

Regarding the wma sound (in BH), i just received the information from a vu duo user that got sound after installing gstreamer! If they are using gstreamer (software decoding!!!!!) for sound it's logic that none of our experiments didn't work.

 

Maybe that applies only on old cpu (and old kernel 3.1.1) machines, maybe not i cannot confirm. (I would like to see content of BH but "howto/guides" for extracting ubi didn't work for me on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, neither shareware gutemines tools worked, so please point me to the right direction).

Edited by athoik, 26 December 2013 - 08:54.

[Rob van der Does]

BH and VTi are closed source images.
Unfortunately and even shocking, as they are based on the open source VU-image.

[Rob van der Does]

Absert that the downmix setting is required for acc.... If this is really required then leave it on all time...

At least no issues here with et boxes with hbbtv and sound...

 
 

I think there is a bit of misunderstanding here.

The 12/12 VU-drivers support AAC-pass-through (until then they were always being downmixed). Pass-through means that the AAC-bitstream is offered to the amplifier.
Knowing that many AC3/DTS-compatible amp's are not AAC-compatible, a separate AAC-downmix option is available. So people can use the STB-amp for AC3 & DTS-bitstream and without changing settings also AAC-(downmixed) PCM. And people having a more capable amp can use the bitstream (downmix off) for all audio-formats.

Sounds good, doesn't it?

So I hope this subtle difference between 'absurd' and 'added functionality' will lead to support from PLi for that.

[littlesat]

When I would make a config for downmix aac seperately I would give the downmix config we already have more options instead of adding a new different config...

[athoik]

Dreambox (dm800se) also has aac setting (and i think it is there long time before VU)...

 

/proc/stb/audio/aac:downmix
/proc/stb/audio/aac_choices:downmix passthrough

Edited by athoik, 26 December 2013 - 10:07.

[littlesat]

 long time

DMM has this also very recently....

[athoik]

Hello @OpenPLi users,
 
New patch and files!

Mistery with sound solved (thanks to devilcosta at satdreamgr forum). Drivers never support WMA, they are using ffmpeg (software decoding)....

vuplus: Use same dvbmediasink as in code.vuplus.com

The new drivers with WMV support are not working with OpenPLi images
because OpenPLi uses an implementation of dvbmediasink compartible with
Xtrend and XP drivers.

Vu is using dreambox dvbmediasink witch is incompartible with OpenPLi.

This patch creates a new dvbmediasink, same as in code.vuplus.com with
an extra patch that fixes wma sound. Also gst-ffmpeg added as RDEPEND
because drivers don't support WMA, so it is done via sofware decoding.

Thanks to macnuts, SatKiekerd and satdreamgr team for testing patches
and providing feedback.

Special thanks to devilcosta from satdreamgr for finding that gst-ffmpeg
was the culprit.

More info: http://openpli.org/forums/topic/31730-new-drivers-for-vu/

 0001-vuplus-Use-same-dvbmediasink-as-in-code.vuplus.com.patch.txt   9.42KB   55 downloads

Here are the files required (install using same order):
 gst-ffmpeg_0.10.13-r7_mips32el.ipk   104.31KB   93 downloads
 gst-plugin-vuplus-dvbmediasink_0.10+git130+9173821-r18_mips32el.ipk   34.86KB   94 downloads

PS. First remove gst-plugin-dvbmediasink (opkg remove gst-plugin-dvbmediasink) before installing gst-plugin-vuplus-dvbmediasink or install using --force-overwrite.

[Rob van der Does]

Thanks a lot!

[cenko]

Do the update files include the new drivers for Solo2?

 

When I update online, will I have the updated OpenPli 4.0 including the new drivers for Solo2?

 

I installed the 04 November 2013 dated OpenPli 4.0 and update online since that day. Do I have all the new features of OpenPli 4.0 or I need to flash with the new one?

 

Thank you very much in advance.

Edited by cenko, 26 December 2013 - 15:09.

[Rob van der Does]

If you update, you also get new drivers.

[cenko]

Thanks for quick reply.

[willy01]

opkg remove gst-plugin-dvbmediasink

and both ipks installed, no sound.

Edited by willy01, 26 December 2013 - 17:03.

[athoik]

Did you reboot after installing above?