Aml_image_v2_packer returns "Image check error" with all the images

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Hello all,

I got my new VIM3 which I want to use as a smart tv box. I don’t want to use android though, I want to use CoreElec/Librelec instead. I don’t have an SD card here so I thought that I will just flash into the EMMC. At first I thought that I can flash immediately CE/LE but I couldn’t find an EMMC image so instead I decided to try to flash Krescue to emmc and check how it works.

I downloaded the utils git repo from:

And after I installed everything I tried to flash the Krescue immage with aml-burn-tool. (I also tried to flash the Ubuntu emmc image with the same results).
The burn-tool always failed during the unpacking stage. I looked a bit at the code and it seems that it just runs the aml_image_v2_packer. So I used the check function of this tool ‘-c’ against all the images that I have. In all of the images (I tried .xz and .img files)
I am getting the following error:
[ERR]f(AmlImagePack.cpp)L257:Image check error! The magic number is not match

I am running Ubuntu 20.04 here. I highly doubt that all my images are corrupted, does anyone have the same problem?

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Hello, If you downloaded images using Krescue, those images are to be flashed with Krescue. VIM3 images designed to work using USB for flashing can be found here.

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Hi, Krescue must first be written to an SD card, you can do it from your computer, and only then you can install CE from it.

aml-burn-tool does not work with Krescue.

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Thank you very much for the replies!

I understand that I the Kresque images can only be flashed with Krescue. I do get the same results with all of these images though. ( I understand that some of them are SD and not emmc images, I just tested them to check the output of the packer).

VIM3.Manjaro-ARM-kde-20.12.raw.img
VIM3.Manjaro-ARM-kde-20.12.raw.img.xz
VIM3_Ubuntu-minimal-focal_Linux-4.9_arm64_EMMC_V0.9.6-201117.raw.img
VIM3_Ubuntu-minimal-focal_Linux-4.9_arm64_EMMC_V0.9.6-201117.raw.img.xz

This should not give an error with packer, as far as I understand.