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balbes150 freeze support legacy kernel, so you don't need check changelog. for mainline use github and commits history.

That post from 2017, now 2018... Use mainline kernel +cedrus+kodi now.

Looks like any player don't see vaapi backend... If it use custom decoder lib? first need set path to libva and set LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME as environment variable. Still trying find solution. And in any case we need change --vo from default opengl to x11, wayland or other... no mater software decoding or v4l2_m2m,

@balbes150 upd

Yep. but it have other "magic" setting if video don't have same resolution as screen or play it in window, we can use fast scaler --sws-scaler=fast-bilinear With software decoding we haven't hw scaler and by default scaler in mpv very demanding of resources..

On mainline - compile kernel, v4l2 m2m etc. with custom patches or wait when it merge to stable. For 3.14 use kodi. For 3.14(and software decoding in mainline) and x11 - partial solution --vo=x11 and --sws-scaler=fast-bilinear or equal if you don't use mpv. It cause high cpu usage but give you playable 720p and some 1080p video. Most problem with mpv - it use by default vo=opengl, it cause huge framedrop(yep, soft mesa) so if you want soft decoding use special flags or vo=x11 upd @Baloven

If you need full kodi functional and compatibility use libreelec...

How many people with this problem use armbian? And more how many linux users are experiencing the same problem? How many users solve this problem by changing the mirror? In your case, this is a fight against symptoms, not problem. It is very likely that you RTT to the server is large(or another of the network problems solved by standard means), so TCP's slow start is "slow", and then the small window size limits the speed. This can be tweaked by standard means.

Such a large increase in speed is primarily related to the network settings of you and / or your provider. In most cases, for most users, the apt allows to download at the maximum available network speed ...

amm.. but the author of script says that it use "multiples mirror for increase download speed" and in apt-fast.conf you can add multiples mirror. In any case for most users it pointless and more it may increase disk and cpu usage with no benefits.

Maybe, first step - try other repository mirror for upgrade you download speed?) As far as i know apt-fast still limited by you connection, it just download files from different mirror, so if you have some troubles for connection to one mirror... It's like p2p if some peer can give you traffic with max you channel speed, you can't take benefits with more connection ... And yes, i don't have fiber and some mirrors give me full speed, some are much lower. This is the question of the route to a specific mirror.

Many clue you can find in armbian documentation... And you can compile "kernel only" for s9xx box from balbes150 fork https://github.com/150balbes/Build-Armbian

As I already wrote about external players, for html5 player in the browser scaling is also extremely difficult task. The same video is played in full screen mode. The first is 360p and as you can see, a significant frames dropped. Second, 720p native screen resolution and frames dropped only at the moment of ui appearance. So for 1080p this is less relevant, but for 720p screen resolution, any video with a resolution of 720p is preferable, even more than video with a lower resolution in all image with kernel 3.14.29.

Mmmm... But help text on screen give all this clue)

In my case dmix don't work correct on s905x device. I did not solve this problem, because these devices rarely need to mix sound from several sources.

It's pulseaudio problem i saw this problem very often but if delet pulseaudio and alsa-utils problem was gone... But, without pulseaudio in linux(read as alsa) no easy way to use sound mixing(just one sound from one source in same time)

yep, it's just different version of libmali(mali-5...mali-7) @shippy What kind of problems do you have in kodi? I see low cpu usage in h264/1080p so hw decoding and acceleration work correct in armbian/kodi

s905w Don't support usb 3.0 on soc level ) Try other dtb

Tried bionic, work fine(install package from repo, uninstall etc. mpv from default repo work fine). I did not find any bugs or problems.... thanks.

Any chance for black... or not white forum theme?

FAQ in first message "9. If after 7-10 minutes on the monitor not to receive any messages on system startup. Turn off TV box and add in manual in the first partition (FAT) the file "dtb.img". On the media there is a directory dtb from where you can take the files and copy them to the root of the renaming of "dtb.img". Need to pick up the option for the file system will run. Pay attention, after you add\change the dtb file, you need to try to run the system and waiting to run 7-10 minutes. If not happened, repeat with a different dtb file." I would add that you may try all the appropriate soc models of your box and ram volume. If you rewrite cinamon DE with gles support...)) https://doc.qt.io/qt-5.10/topics-graphics.html Few days ago i install to nand debian 5.41.1 from armbian-config. And you still don't post error massage so i don't know what kind of help you want, sorry if this is rude.

Specialy for this after img burning you can see boot partition with all necessary DTB, hdmi.sh etc. What do you mean by acceleration? HW compositing in DE? As i say gles unsuported by all composit managers. If you mean hw acceleration in qt5, it's another difficult task. Did you try nand_sata_install? Armbian-config? If you have trouble post some error masage, logs or othe important information if you want help.

In this topic from 50 pages. i think 5 or more with like you question and answer... Correct for you android image, but not for image with kernel 4.9.x for example... Can compositing from popular DE use gles? Or you need mali for some specific use keys(like qt)?

If you as i'm have some problem with arm64 chromium, some hint how get armhf browser in stretch(in stretch chromium:armhf from repo don't work). Before start update you system apt update && apt upgrade. Download deb package chromium-browser:armhf and chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra:armhf from ppa like https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/armhf/chromium-browser/65.0.3325.181-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 then install it with $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb and install dependencies $ sudo apt-get -f install . If you haven't any armh package before all works fine.