Blind55

I have been pulling my hair out trying to get the acceleration performance (smooth 4K video playback in mpv / chromium) in Armbian (any of the MESA/VPU marked releases) that I am getting from the FriendlyElec distributions. In my naive mind, I thought the MESA/VPU version would get me there, but mpv stutters on 4K videos. I suspect this is because Armbian avoids the proprietary drives. A long time ago, Armbian Ubuntu versions were able to be 'amended' with the Amazingfate/liujianfeng1994 repository, but I have not been able to make that work in a while. Could someone point me to a guide that allows me to get similar performance with Armbian as I am getting with FriendlyElec? Thanks bunch in advance!

That is awesome, thank you very much! I have been getting decent results with the legacy Jammy minimal CLI image and liujianfeng1994 repository for GPU hardware acceleration. Recently, though, the chromium-browser and libwidevinecdm with the liujianfeng1994 repository do not seem to work well, I always have to remove all created chromium browser directories in the .config/ and .cache/ subdirectories for chromium-browser to start at all. Long story short, is there anything I can do to support any- I can only imagine tedious - effort to bring the mali mesa & ffmpeg libraries to the rolling release (if such a thing exists at all) ?

@Efe Çetin Thank you very much for the hint! I will give this a spin! [Edit:] I tried the instructions, but unfortunately, it seems like the pulling from the repo (which seems to be for Jammy?) for the Bullseye image offered on the Armbian webpage fails. Can I follow instructions to build those libraries for Bullseye? Or is there a Jammy image for the R6S I should follow?

Just got my NanoPi R6S, and would love to install armbian. One thing I was wondering is whether the current image has GPU hardware acceleration video playback. In particular, it would be awesome to run kodi with hardware acceleration on it...