[[GUIDE] Kodi on Orange Pi 5 with GPU Hardware Acceleration and HDMI Audio]

On 1/6/2024 at 3:27 AM, royk said:

it's pretty common to have a HDR TV

Yea) kind of offtop probably. Hdr is marketing thing. I also have Samsung hdr tv,  that is not hdr at all.. And tonemapped into 8bit hdr videos on it looks much better than ones without tonemapping. I'm not in this market, but suspect that most of tv's selling nowadays are fake hdr. Except Oled  etc. Actually it easy to find out that tv either true or fake hdr just looking at brightness level of specs, it would be self explanatory,

[[GUIDE] Kodi on Orange Pi 5 with GPU Hardware Acceleration and HDMI Audio]

Btw, there's also another way. Combination kodi + mpv.

it's not difficult to make mpv as external player inside of kodi. 

In that case it's not necessary  to do full set of instructions of 1st post.   Generic kodi installation from apt would be enough.

And,  what is an advantage - with mpv you get hdr tonemapping, that makes better and more contrast look of  hdr videos for most of tv's  relatively to kodi's internal player.

(unless you have "true" hdr tv , that is rare case, end even if you do,  wayland is unable to output hdr as far i know, so tonemapping will make better look anyway)

 

[[Bug] System restarts on seek on h264 video files]

I've compiled/installed ffmpeg using this guide    And problem with seek is gone !

I'm newbie in linux, don't know how good is this solution. Will this compiled version be overwritten by one from ppa on updates?

 

 

[[Bug] System restarts on seek on h264 video files]

14 hours ago, amazingfate said:

ffplay -vcodec h264 test.mp4

Thanks, it plays/seeks perfectly fine, with no issues.

Is there something I can do to disable h264 hw decoder in mpv/ffmpeg ?   it's really buggy...  other from system restarts, it may hang up system sometimes, e.g. when closing player

[[Bug] System restarts on seek on h264 video files]

Hello, i'm using Armbian 23.11 Jammy-amazingfated Gnome. Kernel 5.10

 

If to seek a couple of times in h264 1080p BD remux'es it will cause system restart. Any video players are affected. Tried mpv, vlc, kodi and others.

Problem affect just h264 1080p remuxes,  that typically are 30..40 Gb,  smaller h264 or even larger h265 files seem to work fine.

I tried fresh install of armbian, where no rkmpp is installed, then h264 files plays/seeks fine,  in software mode of course. Once I did sudo update/upgrade, that also installs rkmpp  and other rockchip stuff, then videos start to play with rkmpp  and problem is back.

 

I've tried disabling hw decoding as workaround , weird, but it seems it's not possible to do in any player.

In mpv :

hwdec=no ,  or pressing ctrl+h  has no affect,  can't get rid of rkmpp  decoder. Ive tried all possible commands related to this, from official mpv documentation, but nothing helps to disable rkmpp . This is probably another issue. 

Disabling buggy h264_rkmpp_decoder   could be good workaround, as cpu is easily capable do play 1080p in sw, but can't find a way to do this, no matter i try,  pls help.

Especially looking for solution for mpv

 

 

 

 

 

[Armbian Mantic XFCE desktop 7 dec WITH Hdmi desktop]

8 hours ago, Werner said:

8 hours ago, rix81 said:

 

Tried, but not working,  there's no Mantic list, also other errors. 

[Armbian Mantic XFCE desktop 7 dec WITH Hdmi desktop]

Opi5  works fine. To me most significant issue is missing hw acceleration in browsers/players, any eta to add this ?  thanks for your work.  The other problem might be no sound over hdmi at least with default settings

[Armbian Mantic XFCE desktop 7 dec WITH Hdmi desktop]

Can't find downloads for Armbian Mantic XFCE desktop 7.  Please share a download link (opi5), thank you