OK, so changed to nightly and nothing happened same results, installed both 5.67 and 5.69 builds (stable builds available at armbian download page old and current) with no avail. noticed that both builds use kernel 4.4.167 even after changing to nightly and updating, upgrading, dist-upgrading nothing changed the Kernel, decided to do it manually and finally was able to change, selected 5.71 build that uses 4.20.0.
Redid instructions and the observations are as follows 4.20.0 does play youtube and media at slightly faster speed (not better i mean like 1.25x) , mpv and chromium 32 played them at correct speed, can see ldspa working but there is no audio so ill blame that on the kernel, neither hdmi or 3.5mm socket have audio output, most likely kernel the culprit again, kodi desktop link does close x and when running command throws error, no longer breaking os so Im attaching error log.
Since changing kernel did make a gr8 difference before I try all the builds to my hearts desire, Im wondering if you have a preferred build version that is better tailored to your script?
Also neither before or after script install / before after updating and upgrading was /dev/mali available
rp64@rockpro64:~$ ls -l /dev/mali
ls: cannot access '/dev/mali': No such file or directory
kodi_crashlog-20190116_023538.log