I have an Ugoss AM6B Plus with the latest Nightly ng.
Is it safe to use the Amlogic Vendor Kernel 5.4 (Amlogic-ne)?
Or is it advisable to continue using the Amlogic Vendor Kernel 4.9 (Amlogic-ng)?
What exactly does the note “(*) Generation Amlogic-ne cut-off” mean?
Who can please answer my questions.
Depends on your needs. I would recommend staying on NG for now and switch to NO when it’s ready for prime time (if you don’t care about DV FEL).
So if I take care of DV FEL, I’d better use NO, right?
What exactly does the note “(*) Generation Amlogic-ne cut-off” mean?
@Tim_Taylor
Thank you for posting a link to the page where I came across these comments. Just please explain it to me.
In short kernel 4.9, 5.4 (Ng,Ne) will become obsolete. The 5.15.x kernel (No) will receive continued development.
End of development - EOL - dead horse etc.
CE NO is the future.
if you need FEL that’s only NG, this will not change and will stay on 21.x.
NO is a new underlying platform and will do everything but FEL (that’s not up to CE team, but manufacturers as they are the ones who add support to the dovi kernel module and they have no plans on doing so for the newer kernels, basically it was just an awesome luck that we got it in any form. FEL was specifically designed for physical media and technically should have only been available to manufacturers of UHD/BD playback devices).
About the dead of FEL what was already described multiple times in forum:
Sorry, You are like Don Quixote.
Some users don’t want to see the truth and ignore the facts.
Same story like 3D
The only thing better with FEL is that it doesn’t require any special hardware to display (unlike 3d) and considering that there is a pretty sizeable collection of FEL movies (and they still keep coming) it’s a nice thing to have. Overall I wish it didn’t exist at all and we just had properly non-bitrate-starved BLs (instead of sloppily half-@$$isng them just to ‘save’ it by FEL) with HDR10+ without all this proprietary tech-cancer from Dolby…
FEL is anything but dead. In the last month alone there may have been a dozen or more FEL films released. In total there are over 600 FEL films, or maybe 1/3rd of all UHD disks ever produced. And continuing to grow.
That’s the truth and fact.
It’s one thing to talk about the death of FEL, but studios continue to release and produce FEL films regularly.
“Dead” meaning dead on Amlogic, obviously not on UHD/BD.
Yikes, the misinformation about this news about as bad as it gets.
I’m not faulting you Portisch. However to clear things up: Sony is halting production of recordable media (e.g. the burned discs using a dye substrate). This market segment already died off years ago, and even then Sony isn’t the only manufacturer of recordable BD media
This has no bearing on pressed/stamped BD/UHD discs that come in retail movie releases. FEL based DV isn’t going anywhere for the time being.
You are correct. But for CE it is. Reasoning behind it as I understand it is that FEL is meant for BD media as opposed to rips with protection removed, which is generally not allowed.
One must not hide from the truth either… 90% of the content used on CoreElec is pirated content or private copies that are also illegal…
It’s not just files containing a FEL layer that are illegal…
Can you prove this statement ?
Or is that just a guess ?
That’s a assumption and not the case in my experience.
I totally understand the reasoning behind this choice. If people use CE for their illegal practises, that’s up to them. Team CE can choose not to provide the means for it.
A guess of course 
But I am not an expert.
What are the legal uses you practice with CoreElec?
(Serious question)
I believe that some use add-ons for official streaming platforms, but otherwise?
CoreELEC is primarily used for watching videos and listening to music, right?
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