Hi everyone!
Firstly sorry if this question is too basic or already had a solution in other topic, but I couldn't found the answer I'm looking for and I'm new to Armbian.
But let's go...
We have a standalone system here that plays videos all day long. That kind of "internal TV" from the company, where they put news and other things someone judge it's interesting.
It works pretty well so far for roundly 10 years. Thing is: it relies on regular PCs! As you may know, they're big and has bigger energy consumption than this amazing TV Box.
During a meeting someone came up with the idea of replacing it for something smaller, like this Intel NUC, but they're quite expensive in here. Then I came up the solution of using this TV Box!
They're just perfect for the "system" (not really a system, almost just mplayer playing in loop a folder with few videos) we have, since the actual runs on Debian and the TV Box is capable of running armbian that'll run same other scripts (sync files, cron, etc) on the fly.
Now guess what? I was elected the guy for the job! I wonder why they gave this job for a network admin. Because of my big mouth or because I developed the other one
Running armbian is pretty damn easy, but mplayer is not the good guy for the job anymore. I'm having some success with mpv. (currently running without interface, just console)
First problem: All the current content is already in 720p, resolution is 1080p and when I run "mpv -fs" there's a lot of freezing. Without -fs runs almost smoothly.
Since all of the content is generated internally, I convinced everyone to create videos in 1080p. Now I have fullscreen without -fs and running almost smoothly.
Second problem: because there's a few freezing (seems like the TV Box is not capable of processing all the frames), some guys aren't accepting it. At certain level I indeed agree, since with Android it seems to run 100% smoothly.
I've read something about hardware acceleration, but I have no idea how to enable it, or check if it's enabled.
With all this said, I come to my question:
What would be the best video format (codecs) to play on S905X and the better player to use?
Thanks guys!
