@Troy H If you want mediacenter distro, you can try LibreELEC with Kodi. It has proper OPi3 LTS support (except wifi), but it might not be to your liking because it's single minded distro - no package manager to install extra software. If you decide to try it, I suggest latest nightly image (mind the date!) until 12.0.2 is out, as it has one important video rendering fix.
In my opinion, if someone is looking for the orangepi platform as an audio video player, it is better not to use the OrangePi3-LTS version. I searched the internet for some information about this model and I will honestly say that it is tragic 😞
I am currently using the above-mentioned Pi-3-LTS model as an internet radio and I will say that I managed to set almost everything correctly except for the I2S interface, which is why I could not connect the module: PCM5102 (DAC)
But you can easily use an audio card under USB and it is OK
also as a DAC (32bit). So as an internet radio, the OrangePi3-LTS is OK, if you could run I2S it would be PERFECT.....but this OrangePi model as an audio video player is currently and looking at the internet it is generally a bad solution, it is better to look for something else and preferably a model supported by Armbian developers! 🙂
I use the official OrangePi firmware version for internet radio, not Armbian! because on this old version almost everything works, including the I2C interface for LCD 16x2 / 40x2
Ps. How to configure such a radio I described a bit on the Polish Ubuntu forum ... but this is a tutorial in Polish 🙂
more information LINK LINK2
regards
Troy H reacted to greenais in Orange Pi 3 LTS video issues. Is it even worth it?