The problem is, the install option 1-4 are no longer offered now. Ceemmc detects CE already being installed to emmc and only offerers overwrite or backup options. I used 3 on my attempt (like I always do) because I don‘t care about Android and always use 3 to have it just as a CE box.
I will try again but I think the emmc of the box is kind of stuck now. I can‘t even install non-ng now. Installtointernal complains about something missing. My guess there were changes make to the bootloader.
I used gxl_p212_2g from the ng build. Also tried the slowemmc version. The Mecool M8s Pro+ will complete ceemmc -x without any kind of error message but won’t boot from it.
No big deal for me as I only reactivated the box because I was curious about the ng build for it.
A95X S905X (2+8G) installed successfully, no problems.
X96 S905X (1+16G) originally stuck at Coreelec logo. Following upgrade to Android 7 firmware (I used A95X firmware), Coreelec booted normally, no problems.
Everything work fine on my Khades VIM1 (SD and emmc) and on LePotato (SD card) but not on Mini M8S II box (S905X 2+16Gb).
I can boot Mini M8S II from SD (and USB) using new NG build and everything work fine but ceemmc -x fail to install on emmc.
Previous post from @intelmorino make me think about cross-flashing the box and … eventually today I burn the A95X firmware on my Mini M8S II then ceemmc -x succeeded to install to emmc and the NG build boot normally from emmc.
Everything work fine now on my Mini M8S II (after the cross-flash and CE install on emmc).
I’ve been using the latest ng build on my X96 Mini for a couple months now.
All was well until earlier this week when I encountered 2 separate media files that would not play smoothly, in differing ways.
One of the media files was a 1080i film, it was unwatchable, 80% of the frames were getting dropped. I tried another 1080i film and the problem was the same… so there appears to be an issue with 1080i media for some reason.
The other problematic file was not as severe. stuttering audio and occasionally dropping a bunch of frames every 10 seconds.
The codecs were nothing unusual though, blu-ray quality 1080p avc and stereo pcm s16le audio, the same format as 90% of my media files but for some reason this particular file had issues.
I’ll try the latest non-ng build to see if these issues present themselves.
Edit:
1080p VC1 content does not play correctly either. Loads of skipped frames, but they’re not counted by Kodi’s debug overlay.
One more question: I’m currently running libreelec from an usb stick. If I try this version (on a different usb stick), can I go back to the old one? (I’m asking because of the different aml_autoscript).
Ok, today I finally tried the ng version. What I did
Cloned the usb stick with the working libreelec (9.0.something, the last one supporting the mecool k1 pro).
Booted it to confirm the clone worked and upgraded to coreelec (“normal” version) by putting the tar file in the .upgrade folder and then changing the label of the boot partition (from LIBREELEC to COREELEC).
Upgraded the plugins and installed the missing one (oscam) taking it from libreelec (I need it to read a legit card with an usb reader, AFAIK tvheadend doesn’t do it by itself). I also found that coreelec uninstalled webgrab+ (why, oh, why?) but I least I could install it again from the thoradia repo.
Used it for a couple of days then upgraded to the ng version with the tar file and the .nocompat flag. It rebooted fine, no toothpick needed
The dvb wasn’t working, I had to select the media_build drivers and then it worked.
