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Been trying to play 4k youtube videos with VLC and I haven't had any luck with vp09 and mp4 files. Is VP9 supported with 24.2.1 + kernel 5.10.160? I have no issues with hardware decoding of mp4/h264 in vlc but is vp9 hardware decoding possible? Browser seems to play youtube in 4k but not sure which codec it is using

I haven't tried Jammy with 6.1.43 but the kernel doesn't say rc anymore so curious of the status. How does this build compare in terms of feature and performance with 5.10? Is all the video decoding supported? The RK3588 Kernel support page says that hdmi audio is not supported - is that really the case? Is gnome/wayland supported? I see that only KDE is listed there.

Had same issue - I had to change the HDMI signal to 2.0 Enhanced

in the past I had a script to power on/off my TV through home assistant. The CEC supports putting devices in sleep and waking them up. If this works in Kodi then the standard kernel interface is available in Armbian. The important part is the hardware support - very few devices support sending CEC data but if Kodi can change input and turn on/off already, then we should be all good with Armbian and OPI5.

My current TV doesn't have CEC but I'm planning to replace it with something that has CEC support and would really like to automate the on/off thing... Is cec-utils supported or is there an alternate kernel API?

This is amazing!!!! Is Wayland supported yet? I'll give this a shot once all these updates make it to the official pre-release images.

I ended up doing source install... had to redo it couple times to include ncurses and sqlite. Followed these guides How to Compile and Install Python 3.12 / 3.10 in Debian 11 / 12 - FOSTips How To Install Python 3.12 on Ubuntu, Debian, & LinuxMint (tecadmin.net)

I'm trying to update python on my armbian bookworm to 3.12 but I cannot find any packages for bookworm. I regret not going with the ubuntu one now 😕 because that one has the deadsnake packages. Any known alternatives? (beside compiling your own packages)

holy crap x86/x64 emulation with steam on top - that's next level

Btw, been using moonlight on Armbian 23.11 with sunshine on my pc upstairs (windows) and that has been working incredibly. The only missing item I had to do is add xpadneo on armbian to get the rumble to work on the xbox controller through Bluetooth.

Million thanks sir! You saved the whole armbian for OPI5, your latest packages work like a charm with VLC - and that is a clean fix. My video playback is perfect again, if not better.

Wow yes I can confirm that one works even without the memory limitation. Is there any way to get vlc to use ffmpeg 6? I assume they are linked to avcodec58 instead of avcodec60? I had the video playback working correctly in a previous Jammy version with your previous package. Is the 4Gb memory limit the best solution today? What do you recommend?

All videos, all players - tried both vlc and mpv and tons of videos. Without the 4G limitation the playback is choppy (one frame every minute + tons of frames skipped) and they end up with all kinds of weird error messages. mpv shows this one [h264_rkmpp @ 0xffff833fb620] Doing slow software conversion The kernel ends up full of these messages Oct 04 01:51:28 kitchen-opi kernel: rga_mm: RGA_MMU unsupported memory larger than 4G! Oct 04 01:51:28 kitchen-opi kernel: rga_mm: scheduler core[4] unsupported mm_flag[0x0]! Oct 04 01:51:28 kitchen-opi kernel: rga_mm: rga_mm_map_buffer map dma_buf error! Oct 04 01:51:28 kitchen-opi kernel: rga_mm: job buffer map failed! Oct 04 01:51:28 kitchen-opi kernel: rga_mm: src channel map job buffer failed! Oct 04 01:51:28 kitchen-opi kernel: rga_mm: failed to map buffer Oct 04 01:51:28 kitchen-opi kernel: rga_job: rga_job_commit: failed to map job info Oct 04 01:51:28 kitchen-opi kernel: rga_job: request[240757] task[0] job_commit failed. Oct 04 01:51:28 kitchen-opi kernel: rga_job: rga request[240757] commit failed! Oct 04 01:51:28 kitchen-opi kernel: rga: request[240757] submit failed! Oct 04 01:51:28 kitchen-opi kernel: [drm:rockchip_vop2_mod_supported] *ERROR* Unsupported format modifier 0x800000100000351 Oct 04 01:51:28 kitchen-opi kernel: [drm:rockchip_vop2_mod_supported] *ERROR* Unsupported format modifier 0x800000100000351 According to this RK3588S Mali-G610 GPU (Orange Pi 5) video playback segfault · Issue #356 · rockchip-linux/mpp (github.com) there are some patches already in the mpp stack to fix that but limiting the memory to 4Gb does work with the current stack as well.

I figured out a workaround if anyone else if having this issue. I added the following option in armbianEnv.txt - it will limit your memory to 4gb but fixes video decoding. I believe a real fix for the current 5.10.160 kernel would be an updated version of the panfrost drivers. @amazingfate - any chances you could look into a new build? extraargs="mem=4G"

Since I re-installed 23.8 Jammy with the extra ppa:liujianfeng1994 repo - I haven't been able to play any videos on my OPI5. All players I tried seem to have kernel issues decoding any h264. I've narrowed down the error message to a 4Gb memory limit with the selected version of the drivers but I was wondering if anyone had luck with playback. I had better luck with Jammy 23.4 and I regret upgrading. What is the recommendation? Should I try nightly with 6.6.0-rc1 kernel? I assume this one doesn't need panfork drivers anymore or are there other recommendations for h264 playback?