Respect
Please consider this thread as it is : a simple and collective way to share knowledge and progress on the GT King device and its CoreELEC support. This means you should respect any user participating to the discussions and accept the fact that you may have a different view and/or opinions than others.
Please do avoid repeatedly asking for the same thing again and again… If you are willing to develop and share something, just do it. If you just need to complain, just don’t.
What
The GT King is now available for sale : it’s a TV box from Bee-link, based on the S922X soc, an update on the GT1 products line based on the older S905X and S912 soc.
While the out-of-the-box android (non-ATV) experience is not great, the former S912 boxes are performing really great when running CoreELEC.
It seems that this box is based on the meson reference board, variant G12B (source: official SDK - g12b_w400).
Why
This topic aims at gather information about porting CoreELEC. Please share your question and your information on this box here.
This box will benefit from the new S922X soc, with the powerful cluster of A73 cores.
It should be able to software decode any fHD Widewine L1 DRM contents, thus allowing a great experience with add-on such as Netflix on Kodi.
Official information on the bee-link website and forum
Detailed specifications
Brand: Beelink
Model: GT-King
Type: TV Box
OS: Android 9.0
CPU: S922X Quad-core ARM Cortex-A73 and Dual-core ARM Cortex-A53
GPU: Hexa-core ARM G52 MP6 Graphics
RAM: 4GB DDR4
ROM: 64GB eMMC
WiFi: 2.4G/ 5G WiFi
LAN: 1000M
Bluetooth 4.1
Amlogic Video Engine (AVE) with dedicated hardware decoders and encoders
Support multi-video decoder up to 4Kx2K@60fps+1x1080P@60fps
Supports multiple video decoding sessions and simultaneous decoding and encoding H.265/HEVC Main/Main10 profile @ level 5.1 High-tier; up to 4Kx2K @ 60fps
VP9 Profile-2 up to 4Kx2K@60fps
H.265 HEVC MP-10@L5.1 up to 4Kx2K@60f
AVS2-P2 Profile up to 4Kx2K@60fps
H.264 AVC HP@L5.1 up to 4Kx2K@30fps
H.264 MVC up to 1080P@60fps
MPEG-4 ASP@L5 up to 1080P@60fps (ISO-14496)
WMV/VC-1 SP/MP/AP up to 1080P@60fps
AVS-P16(AVS+) /AVS-P2 JiZhun Profile up to 1080P@60fps
MPEG-2 MP/HL up to 1080P@60fps (ISO-13818)
MPEG-1 MP/HL up to 1080P@60fps (ISO-11172)
RealVideo 8/9/10 up to 1080P@60fps
HDMI 2.1 output up to 4K@75Hz
HDMI 3D video formats
HDMI HDCP 2.2
AV(CVBS) 480i/576i
USB3.0, USB2.0, HDMI, LAN, AV jack, SD card slot, DC in, SPDIF
Power Type: External Power Adapter Mode
12V-1.5A 18W Certification
Input: 100-240V~50/60Hz , Output: 12V 1.5A
Product size: 10.8 x 10.8 x 1.53 cm / 4.25 x 4.25 x 0.60 inches
Product weight: 190g
Package Contents : 1 x TV Box, 1 x 2.4G Voice Control, 1 x Power Adapter, 1 X HDMI Cable, 1 X User Manual
yes, users should support the CoreELEC development team here.
I guess than a first way to do so would be to ask Bee-link to send some samples and to contribute to the porting effort.
If you feel it, as users, send an email to beelink.china@gmail.com and ask them to help the CoreELEC community !
I agree with Mr. Broleke, send them an email and include this forum and specifically what you can do for them. They WILL send you one of their boxes… They have sent me one, and it arrives Tuesday. From my conversations with them, they are excited to have CoreELEC running on their box…
You should have one in your hands by the first week in June.
We have send them an official request like 2-3 weeks ago and they agreed to send boxes for the Team when mass production hits. I skyped with them and nothing moved forward until then. They always keep asking the same questions.
We have LibreComputer, Hardkernel and Khadas people in our slack and it is never a problem to receive developer samples for the team. But this is more customary. More importantly we get a good vendor support with vendor developers sharing board and Amlogic information.
So I am not looking for free boxes only. To me it is also a concern that they sold fake ram boxes to be honest.
I only hope that - as users - we can help Beelink people understand they need to provide a real vendor support if they want the community to come up with a well supported OS alternative.
Anybody that has frequented the Freaktab and Beeelink’s own forums will know only too well that Beelink have no interest in providing decent customer and developer support.
Many times they have stated that they are listening and improving, only to then show, time and time again that words fall on deaf ears because they are only really interested in box shifting.
Sadly people keep buying their product and give them reason not to care that much about after sales support.
They rely solely upon third party devs such as Superceleron on Freaktab to improve firmwares using their own personal desires to help users out.
Don’t buy and then they might just listen.
Unfortunately, sites that directly support vendors and get advertising revenue from them, such as Freaktab do little to put pressure on them to provide better products out of the box and further support.
The likes of Odroid have at least showed some real commitment on all fronts, that has users excited about the product and having a reasonable degree of confidence in them, which ends up with am everybody wins situation.
Beelink are perfectly aware of what could aid further sales but simply can’t be bothered to put the effort in o create and everybody wins situation and users are continually placing too much hope and trust in them (and other vendors/manufacturers), so a vicious circle is created when doing the same thing again and again does not bring about change for the better.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but you are comparing a SBC designer/manufacturer targeting at niche markets, and thus committed to their community of users, to a wholesale manufacturer/supplier targeting at mass markets.
I think there is room for both worlds, but maybe I’m being naive.
I don’t agree with the niche statement. I am willing to give Beelink a chance though. They can move over being a proper vendor like the good ones we know in this business.
Four or five years ago, Beelink gave away 20 of their NEW Ubox (RK3288), so people could test the hardware and software. They did implement some of the suggestions. They do really try. I am still running Ubuntu on that box.
