ArmBoy1988

I'm using ffmpeg and Kodi from the @amazingfate ppa. All has been running great although I don't think that I'm using hardware acceleration. I'm still on an older Jammy with the old/legacy kernel. I've tried newer kernels but getting issues so I stuck with the older kernel. I've started noticing lately that videos are being encoded with pixel format yuv420p10le. In Kodi, I was getting black screens while the audio was playing. I was following up on the Kodi forums, and was told that Kodi needed to be compiled for OpenGL instead of OpenGLES to make the video render properly. This is the thread: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=379167 So, I've been trying to compile Kodi myself. If/when I succeed, I'll post. Any info and/or comments about this and assistance is appreciated. I wasn't sure if this was the place to post this. If it's not feel free to delete this thread.

Has anyone seen this? The claims there is a Vulkan driver now: https://github.com/Bleach665/Mali610Vulkan Can't confirm.

I would suggest to try another m.2 nvme. Maybe a brand like Samsung. Maybe borrow one from a friend or have a local store that can lend you one to try or maybe buy one from Amazon that you can return if it doesn't work. There are some brands that I believe just "work better" and are more compatible. There's a saying I remember..."nobody ever got fired for suggesting IBM". It's the same sentiment. When you go with well known brands, that are usually more expensive, you usually can't go wrong. I remember other threads, for another board, where some drives worked and others did not. There were no reasons why this was so. There were threads that listed drives that worked and those that didn't because this was happening. Just a suggestion. Might not work.

Give more info about your video playback issues. I'm using Armbian Jammy and the only issues that I had when I installed and set everything up was in Kodi. I was using Matrix, which was available at the time. It had issues playing XVid and AVI files. Recently I found that the next version, Nexus, was available, I believe in liujanfeng's PPA. In any case, I backed up my SD card and set it up on another OPi5 I have. I then upgraded Kodi to Nexus. Low and behold, those XVid and AVI files now play properly. I'm guessing there was an issue with codecs. In any case, I'm sticking with my Armbian Jammy now. I tried the vendor kernel and weird stuff was happening. So I'll wait until the updated video/gpu drivers are more mature. I've seen the Joshua Riek stuff mentioned frequently but as mine is now working, I have no incentive to continue.

Is the video available so others can see if they experience the issue?

Do you mean armbian-config? Because, you know, this forum is for supporting Armbian.

@OttawaHacker What specifically do you mean regarding "on/off" thing? Previously, I updated the Kodi config for for my CEC remote to manage how certain functions work with the remote in CEC. This was done through the menus in Kodi. If you can explain what you're trying to do, I'll try it on my setup. I usually leave the CEC setup so that the TV and other devices are not turned off or switched to/from when the events happen. If you go to Settings / System / Input / Peripherals and then select CEC Adapter, a list of items that can be modified is displayed. I don't know if all of them work or if it depends on your TV, other devices etc. Have a look. Let me know if you want me to post the list.

Needed/wanted to add Bluetooth to my OPi5 and also needed WiFi at the same time. Did not want to use 2 USB ports so I tried the T2UB. Working well. Bluetooth appeared on my Armbian Ubuntu Jammy setup and I plugged in the dongle. It saw a few of my bluetooth devices. Reason I wanted bluetooth is to use a controller for some games/emulators. I'll make another post for that. My PS4 Dualshock controller is not showing up in the list of devices. My version is an older version, Armbian 23.06.420 Jammy with Linux 5.10.160-rk35xx No end-user support: built from trunk Conclusion: TPLink T2UB should work properly on Armbian Ubuntu desktop.

I had one OPi5 setup and working properly with one of my TVs. I was running Kodi and using the remote from my TV to control Kodi using HDMI-CEC. I went to setup a second one on another TV but this time the TV remote did not work properly. Through elimination I came to determine the HDMI cable was the issue. I ordered another HDMI cable that had the Ferrite at each side of the cable. Now it worked properly. Thought this might be useful for others. This is the cable I ordered: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B003PDHJ6M Conclusion: In order to make HDMI-CEC work properly, make sure the HDMI cable is of sufficient quality. I think ones with the Ferrite may be best to remove any electrical interference.

I don't think the OPi5 has onboard sata. I think there may be an overlay for sata, though. In any case, on my OPi5, I'm running off a 1TB NVME. I'm running with 8 external data drives off a USB 3 hub. I've set up OMV on Armbian Bullseye server version. Running fine. FYI, I don't believe there is an Armbian Bullseye version for the OPi5 Plus. Not sure if you can build that yourself, but you may have to. OMV 6, the current version, requires Debian Bullseye. There is a beta version of OMV7, that could work for you. Some OMV devs have indicated that OMV 7 is just as stable as OMV6. Check the openmediavault forums for details.

There is/are threads/posts about Mesa Panfork either here or on the Collabora site or blog. I believe the last version where the acceleration worked was based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I don't recall/know which Armbian version that mapped to. I also remember people started to see that the acceleration no longer worked.. In any case, that's all I can remember. I don't have any more info on it so I won't be posting anything else in this thread.

I believe the mesa panfork drivers are only available on Jammy/amazingfated versions of Armbian. It actually says that in the line above the box with those lines you quoted. I don't know the details. Joshua-Riek is likely based on that as well. In the future they may/will likely be available more widely.

I found this a while ago. I didn't try it as I'm not really up on Steam. Thought it might help: https://jamesachambers.com/installing-steam-on-the-orange-pi-5-with-armbian/

I'm using a Logitech k400r, I think. It comes with its own usb dongle, is wireless and has a built-in trackpad. Works great. Not sure if it's still available or other Logitech keyboards work with it.

If this u-boot doesn't work out, perhaps there is another option. When I was initially setting up my NVME, I was having an issue. In order to make it work, a small FAT boot partition was created and a 2nd partition for the root fs. I believe there was an early issue with ext4 partitions on the SPI. In any case, perhaps using this configuration, you can more easily modify the boot partition to do what you need it to do.