greenais

Thank you, first of all! So you mean that even in vendor's preinstalled Android they don't use GPU for that? I installed there VLC + couple of players from vanilla stores - all of them have no issues with HW decoding at all... According to their status Cedrus could be much easier way - VLC stated there as supported already

Definitely I will - that's why we all are here.

I clearly understand (almost) all you've written above - that's why there is "I'm ready to invest my time" instead of "shut up and give me everything for free, I said - NOW!" "Talk is cheap, send patches." - really good point, sure, my support. Probably something to support their own statements "On Debian 11 and newer, you're required to use the free and open-source Panfrost/Lima drivers" - in terms of just very basic AV HWA, not all the 3D HW shining peaks whistles?)

Have you solved the issue? I bumped into same thing and my findings made me think of this approach. Didn't you try it yet? Originally I've got direction from this old post here.

Hi @jernej could you elaborate perhaps what have been done on LibreELEC side to get hardware acceleration work on OPi3-LTS? Is it somehow related to v4l2_request module for VA drivers which was mentioned in several other treads elsewhere? For my tasks LibreELEC is little bit too much narrow in terms of multi-purpose usage of such a quite powerful SBC. I was really hoping to get much more out of this board when suddenly bumped into lack of quite basic functionality in modern Armbian... To stay on vendor's HWA-enabled Android isn't option for me, so I'm ready to invest my time in order to get even basic HWA working in Armbian. To my point there is quite little we can expect here from Debian Panfrost guys, they clearly stated that HW acceleration is out of their focus at all (yet? for years already)

@balbes150 leaving is surely a big loss for all TV-boxers... Could you please elaborate - is requirement form "Getting started" regarding install " NAND: kernel 3.4.x and NAND storage " applied to his builds too? Years ago I successfully installed Armbian to NAND of MXQ 805 box (with nand-sata-install these days, I guess), and it worked like a charm, but now I can't find any s805 image with kernel 3.4, the earliest ones are 3.10 already. Thank you in advance if you could give a tip.