Vittorio Mori

@primoitt: @ilmich solved it for me by compiling a libreleec 11 build with mpv binary included- Everything works, h264/hevc/mpeg2 ..... brilliant.

@ilmich Thanks a million, a small mpv binary that uses hardware to decode directly to screen from CLI is all I really need. In most posts on the libreelec forum thay said mpv is impossible to use/install/develop/whatever, so I did not ask for it at all. If you can help me with an "ad-hoc" build of librelec that a) does not load any interface at all or does just minimal gpu/screen initialization (optional...I do not really care if it loads b) has a .config file to give it a static ipv4 address..somewhere or any way to give it a static ip address via cli or whatever c) answers to a standard ssh on port 22 for controlling it (libreeelec does it) d) has an mpv binary that uses the hardware of the rockchip GPU for h265/hevc (low-res, 8bit) decoding I'll be forever grateful and a happier man.

Thanks @jock. I already tried the mpv binaries you compiled, long ago, and could not make them work properly.Dependencies also were a pain and the whole thing seemed too unstable for the use case I need (i.e. get ad udp video stream from the network and playt it). LIbreelec works, but has a weird lag problem with network streams, it always gets a 4/5 seconds delay, whatever parameters I use. LIbreelec on x86_64 does not have this problem, mpv on x86_64 w/VAAPI on Intel/AMD works perfectly/realtime with skinny distros (i.e. Alpine LInux or similar). Since libreelec/kodi/xbmc it's an old-school binary "frankenstein" blob that was born on consoles (xbox) it's impossible to launch a proper mpv inside it, or stop the interface from loading, and a lot of parameters are hardcoded in the binary itself. Libreleec developers are also extremely proud of their ultra-patched binary Golem creature they worship and do not want to assist anyone with a small mpv binary, which would be trivial to add, and that sucks. I'd love to compile a working ffmpeg/mpv for rockchip 322x: I think it should be this github: https://github.com/jernejsk/FFmpeg but it's totally unclear if it's the ffmpeg I need, since there is a TON of information scattered around forums that contradict each other and is a total mess. I'm -sadly- buying x86_64 hardware for my project, since this rockchip h264/hevc hardware acceleration thing has grown into a messy hairball of patches that "should work" but nobody knows how and -as of today - there are no userland tools to use it.

Hello fellow rk322x-hackers. I have a question: is hardware video decoding finally supported in this chip on the latest nightly builds ? Is there a binary mpv that works with accelerated GPU decoding for h264/hevc for these rx322x boxes ? I see @ilmich released a libreelec 11 with kernel 6.1 for the box, and works well,but LIbreELEC is not suited for my purposes, I just need a barebones linux (cli environment) with a working mpv with hardware decoding functional. Is it possible/available anywhere ? Is it included in the nightly builds ? Thanks a lot.

Just to let you know, and maybe give you some inspiration: playing with OpenWRT on this device (see my post), I've discovered that now there's support for LXC containers. So I installed a Debian-bullseye minimal rootfs as a LXC container in the device and now I run a pi-hole in it. So I get the router part via OpenWRT and the adblocker + a very fast and reliable dns/dhcp w/pihole together in the same device. Indeed very cool, with a $9 device, also quite fast. I'm amazed.