magixx256

I just installed Armbian_community_26.8.0-trunk.170_H96-tvbox-3566_resolute_edge_7.0.12_gnome_desktop on an original board HCY-RK3566-1X32-V13 2021-03-27 I wanted to confirm the WiFi chip visually but could not do so as pulling the shield off the HCY6335 was not possible, it's very likely actually soldered so don't try. With this image out of the box: What works: LAN Display What doesn't work: WiFi Bluetooth Unknown: SPDIF Hardware video decoding Afterwards, I installed brcmfmac4335-sdio.bin and brcmfmac4335-sdio.txt from https://github.com/LibreELEC/brcmfmac_sdio-firmware/tree/master to /lib/firmware/brcm/ as per https://green.bug-eyed.monster/armbian-on-the-h96-max-v56-android-tv-box/ but I don't think you need any symlinking. This made Bluetooth and WiFi work but the speed it gets is very poor (20mb/s) so I recommend using wired connection which did get ~500mb/s. I started looking to into hardware video acceleration and this seems to be a bit of a mess. AFAICT MPP (Media Process Platform) and RGA (2D Raster Graphic Acceleration) are needed for this to work. The two options I saw were ffmpeg-rockchip and jellyfin-ffmpeg but both mention needing Rockchip BSP/vendor kernel. Does anyone have any experience here as I was hoping to turn this into a media PC? Given component costs now an that I originally paid ~$42 for the 8GB model I do think this board + armbian runs quite smoothly.