03:35 <chewitt> the goal is to complete the staging drivers and then get them moved out of staging

03:36 <chewitt> HEVC is missing, and technically there is also MPEG4 support although I suspect that will be quietly forgotten since everything back as far as S805 should be able to software decode that media

03:37 <chewitt> and yes, there is an issue with flushing/draining in ffmpeg which causes hangs on stream end and when seeking

04:04 <buzzmarshall> thanx... i just wanted to make sure i was getting the jist of where everything was going

04:05 <buzzmarshall> and yes i kinda figured that once things worked out everything would come out of staging into the normal slots

04:06 <buzzmarshall> right now i am working of the le masters with your amlogic-master sitting ontop of that and then making my changes ontop of all of that

04:07 <buzzmarshall> ive got a side branch as well using xdarks kernel as well while adding some other older stuff into it

04:07 <buzzmarshall> trying to expand his m8m2 stuff

04:09 <buzzmarshall> normally i just always butcher everything and build in tree and have been making a effort to catch up and learn the newer develop methods with git and stuff and wanted to make sure i was doing it right

04:09 <buzzmarshall> once i finish fixing my changes i will probably have to bug ya about the best way to generate patches as thats a area of git ive not really looked much at yet

04:16 <buzzmarshall> 1st i need to do a bit more catch up on the drm-api and the ioctls added for prime while trying to understand more about the dma buffers

04:17 <buzzmarshall> after spending this time looking at all the changes and fixups its alot easier to see why all of the migration to mainstream is worth it

04:18 <buzzmarshall> things already look much cleaner and better organized then the vendors bsp's mess

04:59 <chewitt> Amlogic deserve a lot of credit for achieving a working product in a time before any clear standards existed

04:59 <chewitt> the mainline effort has the benefit of prior-art and hindsight

05:00 <chewitt> frequently they combine to show a clear picture of how not to do something

05:00 <chewitt> and it's much easier to focus on the essentials that you really need, vs. the swiss-army-knife approach to bsp kernels

05:01 <chewitt> a good example (still in the mainline to-do list) is deinterlacing

05:01 <chewitt> the bsp has 20k LOC driver with a huge number of deinterlace methods

05:02 <chewitt> in reality you only need 4-5 of them, and it should be do-able in 2k LOC or less

05:02 <chewitt> so you end up with smaller, lighter and more efficient code that becomes easier to support

15:12 <buzzmarshall> ya i can see what your talking about... i get the propriatary approach tho as i come from the old way of doing things where you really were only concerned about a very narrow range of hardware and the idea of mass support was not the way back then

15:12 <buzzmarshall> all this trying to support such a wide range of hardware i get tho as its something that really is needed

15:13 <buzzmarshall> especially in this day where manufacturers release so much so quick that they never really truly support anything properly before they move onto the next device

15:14 <buzzmarshall> worst part for me is i am spending more time on dragging my arse up to the newer ways of doing things then actually coding anything

15:14 <buzzmarshall> lol

17:56 <hellbender> hello, is there anybody who could help me with a kodi installation on RPI2 that doesn't start playing the video and keeps showing the GUI although the kode app says the video is playing?

18:22 <Fenster> is it playing in the background?

19:13 <turm01l> Hi there, I am lookig for a solution to stream the current Kodi audio output to a set of multi room enabled speakers. I have not bought any speakers yet, so I am open to suggestions what works best with Kodi.

19:22 <turm01l> Anyone knows if fritsch is hanging out here any more?

21:17 <mack-> also, hellbender, are you running libreelec on your Pi? or kodi on somethign like raspbian

22:55 <turm01l> I saw a thread that hints that snapcast server and client are already integrated with LE, is that correct?

23:03 <mack-> I have no experience with multispeakers, but I've seen people discussing snapcast, pulseaudio and mpd, just to give you more options

23:16 <turm01l> thats why I was asking if snapserver and snapclient already are included with LE

23:16 <turm01l> so are they?

23:18 <turm01l> One thing is that you still need a raspi for a speaker to connect. I would prefer some speaker I can just buy and that supports a protocol that I can push out of Kodi. Are there speakers with snapclient? There are Chromast-enabled speakers in the market, but what about chromcast streaming out of Kodi, does that work?

23:18 <turm01l> mpd is just a player, I dont need that, Kodi is a player already. right?

23:19 <turm01l> Pulseaudio is just a switchboard low level software that you can use to capture the Kodi audio stream and feed that into something like icecast or snapcast.

23:20 <turm01l> But it would be nice if there is already support for that coming with LE, so that icecast or snapcast just need to be enabled and Audio out set to use snapcast or icecast. With icecast you could use Ikea-Sonos right away as speakers

23:24 <mack-> I almost mentioned sonoff speakers. I know people use them, but couldn't remember I've read about their use in kodi specifically or other solutions.

23:51 <turm01l> you mean sonos. sonoff is someting else :)

23:52 <turm01l> yeah, you need to send the output through icecast and then you can make sonos use that "radio" stream

23:52 <turm01l> But is this available as an addon?