• Includes newclock3 commits (except for 7f0a8b9 which I've replaced with a static spinner)
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC fernetmenta patches (due to conflict with newclock3)
  
• "Show RSS Feed" default setting changed to disabled
  

1. Lots of dvdplayer+omxcodec fixes have been pushed to newclock3.
   • Aspect ratio for non-square pixel videos should be fixed
     
   • Reduced GPU memory usage by 20M
     
   • Fixed issue with green flashes when playing software codec (e.g. divx3) after hardware codec
     
   • Fixed some crashes with ff/rew and when stopping/restarting
     
   • Fixed some omx_err situations
     
2. OpenELEC: Updated wlan firmware
   

1. Testers should try adding the following entry to their advancedsettings.xml:
   
   Code:

   <advancedsettings>
  <video>
    <defaultplayer>dvdplayer</defaultplayer>
    <defaultdvdplayer>dvdplayer</defaultdvdplayer>
  </video>
</advancedsettings>
   and report if it is better/worse than omxplayer. You can still play files with omxplayer using the context-menu "Play using... OMXPlayer".
   

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2. The following settings are no longer required in config.txt and should be removed:
   
   Code:

   no_hdmi_resample=1
hdmi_stream_channels=1
   no_resample_audio is now a default, and hdmi_stream_channels is switched based on audio content. For the time being when using passthrough, 2.0 speaker layout should continue to be used (you will still get 5.1 with AC3/DTS).
   

(2014-02-04, 02:42)popcornmix Wrote: It does what you'd imagine. It will force software decode. It could make sense if you have, say an SD MPEG-4 video which is misbehaving.
The software decoder may be able to keep up. I can't imagine it to be frequently useful, but may be useful for debugging.

(2014-02-04, 13:38)tfouto Wrote: What are the main differences?

• Includes newclock3 commits (except for 7f0a8b9 which I've replaced with a static spinner)
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC fernetmenta patches (due to conflict with newclock3)
  

(2014-02-04, 13:38)tfouto Wrote: Hi,

I am a new pi and openelec user. I use the last nightly gotham here:

http://mirrors.xbmcnightlybuilds.com/OpenELEC_DEV_BUILDS/RPi/

This thread is of non-official releases? Is another branch or the same branch but just nightly releases?

What are the main differences?

Sorry if i miss the answer on this huge thread...

Thanks

(2014-02-04, 13:28)doveman2 Wrote: I recall there was some chat a while back about letting the CPU try and decode unsupported formats. Is this enabled by default now or do I need to set something for that?

(2014-02-04, 14:32)xbs08 Wrote: "Reduced GPU memory usage by 20M"

Can give a more detailed explanation on this improvement?

(2014-02-04, 14:11)popcornmix Wrote:

(2014-02-04, 13:28)doveman2 Wrote: I recall there was some chat a while back about letting the CPU try and decode unsupported formats. Is this enabled by default now or do I need to set something for that?

If you play (with dvdplayer) something unsupported (like divx3 or msmpeg4 or sorenson spark), then it will automatically use the software decoder.
If it is sd resolution, it will probably play fine.

It will also do this automatically with MPEG2 or VC1 if the hardware codec is not licensed. DVDs or Blu-Rays won't be much more than a slideshow.

(2014-02-04, 14:00)freem@n Wrote:

(2014-02-04, 13:38)tfouto Wrote: What are the main differences?

it's already answered in every new build info:
Based on tip of XBMC master (65ad3ae, changelog) and tip of OpenELEC master (6396b1d, changelog) with the following modifications:

• Includes newclock3 commits (except for 7f0a8b9 which I've replaced with a static spinner)
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC fernetmenta patches (due to conflict with newclock3)
  

Build Higlights:
....


if you want to try the latest "bleeding edge" development on the Pi this is the thread for you. but keep in mind that this is considered unstable and mainly for testing and debugging purposes!

(2014-02-04, 14:40)popcornmix Wrote:

(2014-02-04, 14:32)xbs08 Wrote: "Reduced GPU memory usage by 20M"

Can give a more detailed explanation on this improvement?

We create 4 textures for decoded video frames. These should be up to 1920x1080 @ 32bpp, or ~8M each.
I found they were being created with mipmaps which made then about 13M each.

(2014-02-04, 14:43)doveman2 Wrote: Thanks. Is there anyway to make it automatically use dvdplayer for these unsupported formats, or does it do that by default?

The main thing I want to try is to see if my brother can use this to play his various unsupported formats, which are all SD (or lower).

(2014-02-04, 14:57)tfouto Wrote: But will this changes will eventually go to official xbmc/openelec builds or will always be a separate branch?

(2014-02-04, 14:40)popcornmix Wrote:

(2014-02-04, 14:32)xbs08 Wrote: "Reduced GPU memory usage by 20M"

Can give a more detailed explanation on this improvement?

We create 4 textures for decoded video frames. These should be up to 1920x1080 @ 32bpp, or ~8M each.
I found they were being created with mipmaps which made then about 13M each.