Hello I just started looking into CoreElec and have one question and I searched but couldn’t find an answer. Does CoreElec do FEL properly, because the way Zidoo and Dune do it isn’t really true FEL and the chip used in the newer Dune Solo 8K is the non -J Armlogic version and way overpriced. My understanding , and correct me if I’m wrong, is in order to playback FEL like a UHD player the chip has to be able to decide 2 H265 streams/layers at once. The RPU method described below is a “work around” and doesn’t give the full benefits of FEL.
The media player supports direct playback of Dolby Vision profile 7 FEL double-track and double-layer files. This is the most advanced Dolby Vision format. The media player plays video in this format using both tracks/layers. The important Dolby Vision information from the second track/layer (Dolby Vision RPU metadata) is transmitted to TV together with video data from the first track/layer. The passed video data uses 10-bit color depth - the maximum color depth supported by OLED-panels in OLED TVs, i.e. this fully uses the capabilities of OLED TVs. Combined with the full use of Dolby Vision metadata this gives an excellent Dolby Vision picture on the TV screen.
Thanks for the quick response! I just wanted to confirm other stuff I read like the below on Reddit before buying one. 8 read the Amazon ones requires a custom bootloader so not an option for me.
It is now very mature and about a year ago, the CoreElec team noticed that DV FEL works on the Amlogic S922X-J SoC due it being the only SoC free of Dolby’s decoder restrictions that hobble FEL playback on other streaming boxes
In CoreELEC 21, the kodi-send script does not work for me, and therefore neither does the kodi-remote script.
When running the kodi-send script, the following error listing appears:
# kodi-send -a ContextMenu
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/kodi-send", line 27, in <module>
from kodi.xbmcclient import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'kodi'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/kodi-send", line 30, in <module>
from xbmcclient import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'xbmcclient'
Sure, I hadn’t thought of that, but it could…
Thanks for the clarification.
I have Entware there for some Tvheadend related apps. I’m moving Tvheadend to a dedicated machine right now, I’ll clean it up!
Thank you once again.
EDIT Entware uninstall and kodi-send works!
The update does not work on my Minix NEO U22-XJ Max → ERROR: CoreELEC-Amlogic-ng.arm-21.0-Omega.tar is not compatible with Amlogic-ng-dv.arm hardware - update canceled. What can I do?
Although not recommended (create a backup and store it in a safe place) you can ssh to the device and run this command touch /storage/.update/.nocompat this will create an empty file named nocompat that will.let you use the .tar to update. Don’t forget, obviously, to also put the update .tar in the folder.
Still having an issue with Omega and Hulu on my N2+. Is there any way the CE repository version of InputSteam Adaptive can be updated to the latest available, 21.4.5? I am working with the Hulu and IA addon developers and they requested any additional troubleshooting be done with the latest IA.
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