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Okay, so just to avoid hijacking this thread, we can continue the discussion about this in a new one. I'll tag you when I start it. I'm very interested in this topic too.

Could it be lack of power? When you enable that stuff, you demand a lot on the board. Try something like "stress -c 4", and if it also shuts down the board, then that's the cause.

Well, the solutions of Libreelec are not always easy to port to Armbian. I am more interested if you can point me to some debs containing libmali, panfrost, kodi for amlogic with the kodi service included, etc. I remember using some of your images a long time ago, and I think you had the debs for download in some place.

Cool, I want to see it action. I have a LePotato, Odroid-C2 and Khadas Vim2. Which image do you recommend me for download and test, with HW video accel, libmali and all the bells and whistles? Probably this one?: https://yadi.sk/d/5_32km_EsCV2A/ARMBIAN/5.71/NEXT/Armbian_5.71_Aml-s9xxx_Ubuntu_bionic_next_5.0.0-rc1-next-20190114-g8ce4d582f-dirty_desktop.img.xz Well, I think including all three players in the default Armbian image would be too much. IMO, it would be better to just keep one player, and then make community scripts/images with more stuff. I'm planning to open a separate topic to discuss this issue, and see what other devs think about it.

Again: as you can read in the documentation and in the first post, the script is to be used with the default kernel (4.4.y). You are using Next (4.19.y). That is not supported.

Yes, I remember I saw you include in your images an option to start Kodi in lightDM startup menu, is that what you mean? Yes, the problem is that HW acceleration sometimes has a negative impact on overall desktop experience. It is most noticeable, for example, when dragging windows. I think it is not too bad in RK3328, seems worse to me in RK3399. So it is a trade: video and OpenGL acceleration, in exchange for worst performance in regular desktop usage. I agree with that. The only problem is that Gstreamer doesn't allow you to use subtitles. Also, you cannot select audio track with the Qt5 player, you need to install a different one. But I think that, for those features, we can just continue offering MPV and Kodi as a community work, not as part of official Armbian.

BTW, since you are using the Renegade as desktop, I would very much appreciate your feedback about the desktop experience with the accelerated X server. I mean on regular tasks (reading mail, browsing, reading PDF, Libreoffice, etc).

Aha, I get it. you need to re-run the script after the upgrade. It is enough with selecting the "System configuration" option. In order to do it, since you don't have X, try to switch to terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1, or access through ssh.

Wow, I had no idea you could do that in mpv . I tried it, and it seems like you need to install the package "youtube-dl" for the feature to work. I didn't test dragging the url, but playing it from the command like works. Even more, if you use the gbm wrapper, you can even play 4K videos smoothly! sudo apt-get install youtube-dl mpv-gbm https://www.youtube.com/blahblah

These are the areas that need more testing: Using MPV and Gstreamer video players, and reporting performance. We need to choose which of the two will be the default player in the Armbian multimedia implementation. Performance of Chromium streaming, playing unencrypted videos (e.g. Youtube) at different resolutions, and also DRM encrypted videos (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc.). General desktop experience, when using regular desktop apps (text editors, pdf readers, libreoffice, etc). Thx.

Yes, I noticed that if you launch it just like "kodi", it won't start here, unlike the RK3399 where it worked. The cause seems to be that "standard" mali midgard T86x binaries have the necessary GBM symbols that Kodi uses, while in the case of utgard 450 you need to use the specific binaries for GBM. Solution: launch it in one of these two ways: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/libmali-gbm kodi or: kodi-gbm-wrapper

This release is also meant for the RockPi 4B, as well as for other RK3399 boards. Only requirement is that the system is running Armbian Bionic with 4.4.y kernel. I'm not going to make a release for Debian Stretch, because the Armbian multimedia implementation will be based on Ubuntu Bionic.

So the Media Script is finally released:

Anybody knows if the Raxda fork of our build script is public? I didn't find it in their Github. I want to build a Bionic image.

Voila:

Some side notes: In my tests, I have noticed that desktop in general feels quicker than RK3399, probably because the Armsoc driver is optimized for Mali 4x0. Remember to play full-screen for better video performance. MPV and Gstreamer players seem to have some problems with certain HDR files, that Kodi handles perfectly. I still need to find the cause. The 32-bit Chromium for streaming is supposed to be better optimized in this version than the previous RK3399 script. Though, since my poor Renegade has only 1Gb of RAM, I cannot test it extensively, because it crashes when I load something too heavy, likely because of lack of RAM. So feedback here is welcome.

THE MEDIA SCRIPT IS NOW DEPRECATED, IN FAVOR OF THE OFFICIAL MULTIMEDIA FRAMEWORK. PLEASE REFER TO THIS TOPIC: And, for last, the first version of: The UN-official, UN-supported, UN-expected RK3328 MEDIA TESTING SCRIPT This is the first release of the RK3328 media testing script. The script provides a functionality similar to its RK3288/3399 equivalents, except for the OpenCL related stuff, which is not supported by the SoC. So it includes: Installing all the libraries and system configurations necessary for GPU accelerated X desktop, Chromium WebGL, full VPU video play acceleration up to 4k@60 10-bit HEVC (the maximum supported by the SoC), and GLES 2.0 support. Three video players supporting full VPU acceleration (RKMPP) and KMS display (GBM or a X11 DRM "hack", as described by the authors), namely: MPV, Gstreamer and Kodi. A library that will act as an OpenGL to OpenGL-ES wrapper, allowing you to run programs that use OpenGL 1.5-2.0. Two additional features, that have no big interest from the Armbian development prospective, but I find them interesting to play with: Chromium browser with support for Flash and DRM-protected commercial web video streaming (tested with Amazon Prime, should also work with Netflix, Hulu, etc.), and a simple Pulseaudio GTK equalizer using LADSPA. Here is a more thorough documentation: >>> DOWNLOAD LINK <<< Prerequisites: You need a fresh Armbian Bionic desktop image with default kernel installed. Instructions: Download the file above Untar it: tar xvf media-rk3328_*.txz cd media-script ./media-rk3328.sh Notes: This script is not officially supported by the Armbian project. It is just a community effort to help the development of the main build, by experimenting with a possible implementation of the media capabilities of this particular SoC. Therefore, questions about the script should not be laid out as support requests, but as commentaries or community peer-to-peer assistance. That being said, all commentaries/suggestions/corrections are very welcome. In the same way, I will do my best to help solve any difficulty that may arise regarding the script. Enjoy!

Does it also happen if you flash a fresh Armbian_5.69_Nanopim4 image, or only when you upgrade through apt?

If you notice, that download is Armbian with Debian Stretch desktop. The script requires Armbian with Ubuntu Bionic desktop. We (the Armbian project) has not released an official image for Rockpi 4 yet, so you will have to build it yourself using Raxda fork of Armbian (in case it is publicly available), or ask them to build it. My recommendation would be that you ask in the Raxda forums how to get a ubuntu bionic desktop Armbian image for Rockpi.

Still, RDP and VNC are not secure enough to open a port directly to Internet. I rather suggest x2go, which is much more secure (works over ssh), and also a lot faster. Plus, it allows forwarding of sound, local folders and printers. http://wiki.x2go.org Enviado desde mi Aquaris M mediante Tapatalk

It was broken for a while, but now it is working in the latest stable image available for download. Probably an "apt upgrade" will also fix it, not sure about it.

Can you please install my media script, and see if you can play with any of the GBM players in the same circumstances that sdl is failing? That would give us some more info about where the issue can be.

It's baking in the oven...

That's actually what the script currently does. In the documentation you can find more info about how it works. You can choose either X11 ( windowed, mouse support, worst performance) and GBM (writes directly to display without using the X server, no mouse support, best performance).

Yes, it runs fulscreen with no mouse support. You can control it with a remote control via LIRC, or with the keyboard. Arrows, space, Q for quit and shift-Q for save position and quit. "man mpv" will give you the whole list of controls. Well, the wrapper is a very basic implementation, meant to stop nodm, which is the default Armbian DM. If you are using lightdm instead, you must edit the file "/usr/local/bin/kodi-gbm-wrapper" Or just do it manually: Ctrl+alt+F1, "sudo service lightdm stop", "kodi"