Allwinner A10: Android support

Let's continue the android discussion started in the other Allwinner A10 thread here.
I received my Mele A1000 today but I have some issues playing media. I tried the following players:
1) BSplayer: HW mode doesn't work when streaming media over the network.
2) MX Player: No sound (HDMI) when playing .mkv
3) Pre-installed player: Same as MX Player.
4) Moboplayer: Doesn't start playing at all.
5) mvideoplayer: Same as MX Player

Live TV streams from TVHeadend doesn't seem to work either (audio out of sync or no playback at all).

Anyone knows a fix for the HDMI audio and/or a good player for Allwinner A10?

going to move this to off-topic as it has nothing to do with xbmc-general-discussion

(2012-06-22 21:57)Snippo Wrote:  2) MX Player: No sound (HDMI) when playing .mkv

Try software decoding. I had no sound on one video and had to s/w decode the sound track.

Thats odd, works for me (the hdmi audio) with mx player. Did you install the Mx player armv7 codec? You'll find it on Gplay

EDIT: here you got it running http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bxohWS0vpg

Looks like only AC3 audio works under android (MX player). Movies with DTS audio won't give me sound over HDMI. Also HTTP streams (TVHeadend) have a lot of problems with lag and out of sync audio.

I found some more info about AC3/DTS on cnx-software:
http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/06/18/m.../#comments

Apparently it will be fixed in the official Android ICS firmware. Hope they will release it soon because like this the only way to play a movie is with MX player's audio software decoding.

Using android will this box mount and play DVD ISO files located on a shared network drive?

Can it display the DVD menu?

(2012-06-29 20:37)0level Wrote:  just for any one intrested official ICS 4 is available @ http://www.mele.cn/en/web/down_list.aspx?cid=GJS

but download speed is very sloooooooooooooooooooooooow.

did any one got it ?

I downloaded the version mentioned here. I'm not sure if that is the official release but it's horrible:
1) AC3/DTS still doesn't work.
2) The launcher isn't remote friendly.
3) If HDMI 720p is selected you won't be able to play any videos. It just gives a black screen. It does work on 1080p...

Imo the unofficial(?) release was better...

I can't get this to work for the life of me for my Mini X, despite finding what someone else has confirmed as a Mini X friendly Android 4.0 image. I image the card, put it in, and it boots up like normal with no FW update. I suspect that it might be my microSD card, but I read a lot of people having issues regardless of microSD card used, and the same microSD cards being able to install linux.

I did notice there seems to be some other method of updating, as there is an "Update" app on the unit, but it's all in Chinese. There are some buttons, including online update and local update, with local update leading to two more buttons called "OTA update" and something about selecting an image. Does anyone know what is up with that? None of the buttons seem to do anything. I've tried various combinations of things, like using OTA update, online update, local image, having the img file on a FAT formatted mSD card, having the img file "burned" to the mSD card, etc.

I can't select any of the instruction text to put into google translate, but it seems parts of it talk about img files and SD cards. Might be an alternative update method.

@Ned_scott I used the image from the CNX site linked above, and everything but the remote control works great. As mentioned in another thread I need to get the hardware decocding working, but otherwise the install process was 100% painless. Try a different card (specifically try regular SD as opposed to SDHC) I am going to try the official release (the one from CNX is unofficial) right now and report back if it works or not.