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This was many months ago, and Android isn't an option here. Even though I've used all of those through the fork into LineageOS. Has to be actual Linux for a few reasons. I got my Pi 5. So this isn't going to be doing anything video codec related, if anything at all.

It was a rather spontaneous purchase, partly because it was really cheap. But I was unaware of that. Seemed like other people had it working by doing some searching, so I just bought it. I did try Android, but I really just miss things like controlling Kodi with my TV remote. I'll probably just get something with Qualcomm, Broadcom, etc.. Or wait for the RPi 5. (With a laptop in its place until then.)

I spent a lot of time trying different distros, and all sorts of different things. H.264 was no problem, that definitely handles them properly. But with H.265. I've got to the point where the modules that seem to contain the H.265 support load, but throw experimental warnings all over. But they still usually either: don't work at all, or make the OS blow up. I just gave up after hundreds of hours, since my decade old RPi 3 seems to do the equivalent with a lot more stability. I'm just checking back every 6 months or so. Since I'm fairly sure this processor is capable of it. (But so far, that OPi4 LTS purchase was a complete waste for my purposes.)

I should of probably included some other information. A lot of the information I have to go off of is 2+ years old. So I'm not even sure what is the best way to go about it in 2023. But Kodi v19+ should just support all this out of box as far as I can tell. Here is what I think is installed which should help make this all work. lsmod | grep vid videobuf2_dma_contig 24576 3 rockchip_vdec,hantro_vpu,rockchip_iep videobuf2_vmalloc 20480 1 hantro_vpu videobuf2_dma_sg 24576 1 rockchip_rga videobuf2_memops 20480 3 videobuf2_vmalloc,videobuf2_dma_contig,videobuf2_dma_sg videobuf2_v4l2 32768 5 rockchip_vdec,hantro_vpu,rockchip_rga,rockchip_iep,v4l2_mem2mem videobuf2_common 65536 10 rockchip_vdec,videobuf2_vmalloc,videobuf2_dma_contig,videobuf2_v4l2,hantro_vpu,rockchip_rga,videobuf2_dma_sg,rockchip_iep,v4l2_mem2mem,videobuf2_memops videodev 262144 7 rockchip_vdec,videobuf2_v4l2,hantro_vpu,rockchip_rga,videobuf2_common,rockchip_iep,v4l2_mem2mem mc 61440 6 rockchip_vdec,videodev,videobuf2_v4l2,hantro_vpu,videobuf2_common,v4l2_mem2mem dpkg -l | grep libva ii libva-drm2:arm64 2.14.0-1 arm64 Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux -- DRM runtime ii libva-wayland2:arm64 2.14.0-1 arm64 Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux -- Wayland runtime ii libva-x11-2:arm64 2.14.0-1 arm64 Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux -- X11 runtime ii libva2:arm64 2.14.0-1 arm64 Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux -- runtime

I have owned numerous Raspberry Pi boards over the years, and I have always have ran Kodi on one of them. For years I have been wanting to upgrade my RPi 3 as it cannot play any of my H.265/HEVC videos. With all the shortages, and how old the Raspberry Pi 4 is getting, I made a rather spontaneous purchase for this Orange Pi 4 LTS board. Getting it all setup is easy enough, but of course, the video (even with H.264!) nearly maxes all 6 cores and the video is chunky as it's just doing everything without any video acceleration. Even navigating the menu seems slow and delayed. I have been scouring these forums and other sources for about 12 hours now, and I am still unsure which route to go. Just as a test, I ran Kodi as root and it was much smoother in the menu system and seemed to do H.264 (in software of course, so it was working really hard). But broke Pulseaudio, as Pulse is hardcoded to not accept connections from root when it's not setup as a system-wide service. Anyway, that's not an option. Kodi doesn't need to, and shouldn't run as root. I was very excited, then extremely let down when I found this post: A custom image with custom repositories? Plus, I don't want X11 or Wayland plus a window manager, I don't need it! Either way, it *seems* to be tied to a completely different chipset. I've been up all night working on this, and I am starting to go delirious, so any help would be appreciated.