Hi Guys,
Has anyone successfully tested Frodo with the Pandaboard? I appreciated if someone might help me on where to get it or how to cross-compile.
Cheers, David
I just tried the latest snapshot of Geexbox for Panda.
My Pandaboard ES was stuttering on a 4Mbit 720p MKV – so bad it was unusable. Looked like HW accel was missing or something.
http://download.geexbox.org/snapshots/geexbox-xbmc-omap4-pandaboard/20130308/
I should recheck this ….
about Frodo, I have some patches but never get the time to test / improve them
Thx for your replies!
Let me know if you want me to summarize bugs I come across. It would be great if you have the time to apply the patches.
I am planning to turn the panda into an XBMC renderer solution which can cope with high-end commercial solutions audio quality wise with a high quality DAC. I tested the Pi – seems as the Pi is on the limit, especially when interrupt handling. So I think the Panda is the best candidate. Once we have the s/w stable, I’ll work on the audio h/w side.
right now, I’m a little busy … Will do my best
Sure, that’s understood.. please let me know if your time allows to compile it.
I’m afraid my s/w knowledge is clearly to weak to do it on my own. But let me know if you require ARM and peripheral h/w support.
Looking forward to the panda frodo 
ok , changes are pushed to our tree
http://hg.openbricks.org/openbricks/rev/70cac56d15b9
now I’m testing wifi
I have tested some videos from http://download.openbricks.org/sample/ ans h264 files seems to work fine with 35% cpu usage @ 27 fps
Please test
Regards
Awesome, thx!!
I gave it a quick try, seems very stable.
I think I just locked myself out with an ‘opkg upgrade’, I’ll try again tomorrow.
Impressions so far:
– stable
– Alsa works perfectly (HDMI, analog, also with ext. sound cards)
– CEC not working
– Airplay not working (zeroconf?)
By the way, XBMC still calls itself 11.0.. Is it 12.1 I am running?
There is no snapshot ready ….
did you compile it yourself ? my version shows 12.1
I took it from http://download.geexbox.org/snapshots/geexbox-xbmc-omap4-pandaboard/20130328/binaries.pandaboard/
And that is what I was doing wrong I guess..
Let me see if I understand it correctly.
I need to get it by
hg clone http://hg.geexbox.org/geexbox
and run the top-level makefile? Does it also cross-compile or do I need to compile on the panda board?
no, you did it right http://download.geexbox.org/snapshots/geexbox-xbmc-omap4-pandaboard/ is the link for latest snapshots built by a bot (it starts a new cycle today)
so the last one 20130328 is with previous version of xbmc
 http://hg.geexbox.org/geexbox contains only the last release
http://hg.openbricks.org/openbricks contains the last devel commits.
so, if you want to build it yourself, use
hg clone http://hg.openbricks.org/openbricks
cd openbricks
./scripts/loadcfg geexbox-xbmc-omap4-pandaboard
make
and it cross-compiles, no need to use the pandaboard for this.
Ok, got it, thx!
I was about to ask how to get mercurial for the panda, but I’ll simply use a different PC to compile.
Here is what I did:
hg clone http://hg.openbricks.org/openbricks
./scripts/loadcfg geexbox-xbmc-omap4-pandaboard
And I get:
./scripts/loadcfg: 3: export: 20130328/openbricks/openbricks/build/build../toolchain/bin/m4: bad variable name
What am I doing wrong?
??
did you start to clone from a fresh directory ?
cd ~
rm -Rf openbricks
hg clone http://hg.openbricks.org/openbricks
cd openbricks
./scripts/loadcfg geexbox-xbmc-omap4-pandaboard
make
