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Hello, I'm a new user of Orange Pi One - it just arrived yesterday. I installed Armbian and hoped to try out some H264 video. It appeared just fine on the first time - but I noticed lack of any OSD/subtitles. I tried to use different player (VLC), played with different video outputs. 'X11' worked well on both VLC and mpv... until I tried fullscreen. After long time spent researching the topic I found out that Armbian is using libvdpau-surni whitch is a community driver reversed-engeineered from Allwinner's commertial one, apparently avalibale for Android. I also read that its output will alvays overlap any other elements of the screen including subtitles, menus etc.. Then I tried two different approaches: (1) To change screen resolution using h3disp to 720p/576p and decode using software (after all - we have 4 cores there) - this failed because Orange Pi cannot scale proparly using any setting on my TV on any resolution other than 1080p. (2) To enable OSD some other way - now, there are a few solutions online - surni's FAQ mentions method that doesn't work on H3 (I tried, it does not), some people also talk about forcing rgba mkv OSD rendering - neither of that worked for me. There lies my question - is there any way to overcome this issue? Force proper scaling or enable OSD some other way I missed? Thank in advance for your answers. -Mateusz

I started using armbian just a few days ago, I used the cb2 image. When I updated from 5.10 to 5.11 when I play a video, the video surface is darker, for example, instead of white I get grey. Just to be sure I put armbian 5.10 in another SD and videos played well, them update to armbian 5.11 and had the same problem with video playback. Does someone have any idea what is the problem? Until the problem is solved, how can I downgrade my armbian 5.11 to 5.10? Thanks. EDIT: I downloaded and installed the 5.10 pkgs: armbian-hostapd_5.10_armhf.deb linux-firmware-image-sun7i_5.10_armhf.deb linux-headers-sun7i_5.10_armhf.deb linux-image-sun7i_5.10_armhf.deb linux-jessie-root-cubieboard2_5.10_armhf.deb linux-u-boot-cubieboard2-default_5.10_armhf.deb and solved the problem with video playback, so for now I have it working again, lets hope the problem will be solved so I can upgrade my armbian system.

I have tried to do everything, when I turn on gpu on chormium-browser animation html5 is very slow. Anybody fix or find something ? what chromium version you use ... what mali driver you setup ? very hard to have a good result orange pi PC with armbian 5.20 jessie ! thx you

Hello everyone activating legend movie MPlayer vdpau? banana pi m1

I disconnected the Beelink X2 and connected it again and now there is no picture on screen. I tried several HDMI cables and tvs. What can I do so the player will work and show the picture? I tried flash the x2 firmware the flash was successful but still there is no picture. edit: now the red light on the x2 that shows the x2 connected to the electricity turns off and doesnt stay on like before.

I wonder if any work is being done in that direction. Every browser i tried has some sort of issues, that makes it less than usable on H3 devices. -epiphany/midori: both work decently, but lock up after some time with 25% cpu usage (could be a webkit1 issue ?) -chromium: slow and apparently absent from repos -firefox: works ok, but quite slow -net surf: very fast and stable, but not up to date for web standards (probably what makes it fast in the first place) Am i missing any browsers here ? I propose we optimize one of those, that would work best on out allwinner devices in a similar fashion of what raspberry team did with epiphany. I'm sure lots of folks would find more use for cheap fruit computers with better web browsing capabilities (kiosks ?)

Is there any way to get a video player to display subtitles on an H3 board? I've tried VLC and SMPlayer, but neither are able to do so (the problem seems to be that the video output is overlayed *over* the system display rather than mixed with it on a per-pixel basis, so while the subtitles are being displayed by the player, they simply aren't visible). Is there any adjustment/update/other player I can use to fix this problem? Orange Pi Plus 2 I have armbian 5.05 installed, so not sure if there are any updates that might help?

Hi There ! Finally managed to Get the Cubox up& running well . Upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie . Still Stock 3.14.14 Kernel. Well, next step: The graphics card/hardware acceleration. Is there a quite straight "Do this,get that, then do that" howto to get it working ? Thanks so far! ###edit### Things are geting quite weirder today. Did a further SD-Card with Cubox-i_Debian_2.6_wheezy_3.14.14 to get GPU-Suppport by the Wheezy releases . corrected sources: deb http://repo.maltegrosse.de/BSP:/Cubox-i/Debian_Wheezy/ ./ deb-src http://repo.maltegrosse.de/BSP:/Cubox-i/Debian_Wheezy/ ./ apt-get update / upgrade Did apt-get install imx6-config So far so good. Started imx6-config. On Istalling a GUI it tells me that the installed version is jessie and unsupported. cat /etc/debian_version tells me: 8.2. Well yes - that is Jessie... Houston, we got a problem here.. I only want an accelerated Desktop on that thing - quite challenging. ######edit###### Wellwell - maybe next time i should take a better look.. Now staging Armbian_4.4_Cubox-i_Debian_wheezy_3.14.53 Taking the next shot now.. lets see.. It is a 7.9 = Wheezy.. . W: GPG error: http://repo.maltegrosse.de./ Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY BB98E928B246D9BF *whistle* well apt-get install imx6-config works *whistle* O.K. - after Xorg & LXDE everything fine. Vivante appearing in logs. Performance test with openarena and videos later on..

Hi all Need's help, my devoces orange pi plus 2 and distibtion os armbian server, me need hardware acceleration on plexmediaserver, i used more ways, did not help.

Hi, I have the following issue: I installed Armbian 4.3 Debian (wheezy) 3.4.108 for Micro. My device is A20-Olimex-Olinuxino Micro with nand. I installed it to boot from NAND and store the rootfs on SATA /dev/sda1. When I powered it up with HDMI connected to the TV and micro sdcard plugged in, I see the red armbian logo shows up, but then display turns off and nothing. If I login with ssh I see that /boot is mounted to NAND and rootfs is indeed in /dev/sda1. If I boot without micro sdcard plugged I don't see any display output on the TV, but still the device boots up and the mounts seems the same, /boot on /dev/nand1 and /dev/sda1 is the rootfs. Perfect so I wanted to enable HDMI output and tried with a10disp as in documentation, but got the following: root@micro:/boot# a10disp changehdmimodeforce 4 sunxi disp kernel module version is 1.0 Cannot change HDMI mode because HDMI is not enabled. root@micro:/boot# a10disp switchtohdmiforce 4 sunxi disp kernel module version is 1.0 Cannot change HDMI mode because LCD is not enabled. root@micro:/boot# a10disp enablehdmi 4 sunxi disp kernel module version is 1.0 Reported framebuffer size is too small to fit mode (2.93 MB available; 7.03 MB required). Increase the default framebuffer size allocated at boot, or if you don't need double buffering (used by Mali and video acceleration) use the --nodoublebuffer option. I assume the framebuffer size is variable: sunxi_fb_mem_reserve Here is how my cmdline looks like: root@micro:/boot# cat /proc/cmdline console=tty1 root=/dev/sda1 rootwait rootfstype=ext4 sunxi_ve_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_g2d_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_no_mali_mem_reserve sunxi_fb_mem_reserve=16 hdmi.audio=EDID:0 disp.screen0_output_mode=1920x1080p60 panic=10 consoleblank=0 enforcing=0 loglevel=1 So following the documentation I tried to edit the boot.cmd and uEnv.txt files as follow: root@micro:/boot# cat boot.cmd setenv bootargs console=tty0 root=/dev/sda1 rootwait panic=10 disp.screen0_output_mode=1280x720p60 hdmi.audio=EDID:0 sunxi_fb_mem_reserve=128 sunxi_no_mali_mem_reserve sunxi_ve_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_g2d_mem_reserve=0 consoleblank=0 script=script.bin kernel=uImage root@micro:/boot# cat uEnv.txt console=tty1 nand_root=/dev/sda1 rootwait extraargs=rootfstype=ext4 disp.screen0_output_mode=1280x720p60 hdmi.audio=EDID:0 sunxi_g2d_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_ve_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_fb_mem_reserve=128 sunxi_no_mali_mem_reserve panic=10 consoleblank=0 script=script.bin kernel=uImage root@micro:/boot# mkimage -C none -A arm -T script -d /boot/boot.cmd /boot/boot.scr Image Name: Created: Sat Sep 19 12:50:46 2015 Image Type: ARM Linux Script (uncompressed) Data Size: 271 Bytes = 0.26 kB = 0.00 MB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Contents: Image 0: 263 Bytes = 0.26 kB = 0.00 MB When I reboot I get the same cmdline so it seems my changes are not applied I wonder where they are really taken from? Yet the HDMI display shows nothing. The dmesg log can be found here. Thanks! Martin

CPU load at 100 percent when using pleksmediaserver, I understand that it is not running hardware accelerated video? P.S in Orange pi plus 2 my equipment Orange pi plus 2 my equipment Orange pi plus 2

Hi, I have tested this issue : https://github.com/linux-sunxi/linux-sunxi/issues/244 apparently it is not resolved. kernel panic log :

Greeting, I installed the OrangePI plus image (desktop) on my Orange PI plus2. It seems to work fine but I can't get any video output. I tested with several h3disp settings, with a HDMI to VGA adapter then with an HDMI to DVI adapter, and finally on the A/V port. I have no hdmi screen to test direct connection without adapters. Ideally I would like to use the HDMI to VGA adapter. any ideas ?

Looking for some guidance on how to play mp4/h264 files from the command line.......tried numerous method but not getting any joy (mplayer / mpv). Any definitive guide out there or help appreciated......pulling my hair out with this

Hello, i am having a problem with my Orange Pi the download speed is very slow. In Deluge and by wget i get normal DL speed around 9Mb/s (i have a 10Mb internet). But in JDownloader and in builit-in web browser i get around 100Kb/s. Any idea how to solve this issue? I want to make a download server using OPi but this issue is stopping me from doing that. I am running the newest Armbian Desktop

https://www.eevblog.com/2016/05/24/eevblog-883-orange-pi-one-vs-raspberry-pi-2/

Dave Jones of EEVBLOG fame is building his 'cluster' of Orange Pi's to run the SETI@home project. Disappointed by the offer of the built images of the Orange Pi producer, he turns (successfully) to Armbian to run a clean Jessie image on his machines.

i use oprange pi PC . i do ffmpeg -s 320x240 -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 /home/orange/out.mpg then i get video . i do arecord --device hw:0 -r 44100 -f S16_LE /home/orange/1.wav then i get sound . but i cannot get both at once . by using cheese , i have no sound . i guess alsamixer and i must do something , but i donot know the followings . aplay -L is null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) sysdefault:CARD=audiocodec audiocodec, Default Audio Device dmix:CARD=audiocodec,DEV=0 audiocodec, Direct sample mixing device dsnoop:CARD=audiocodec,DEV=0 audiocodec, Direct sample snooping device hw:CARD=audiocodec,DEV=0 audiocodec, Direct hardware device without any conversions plughw:CARD=audiocodec,DEV=0 audiocodec, Hardware device with all software conversions sysdefault:CARD=sndhdmi sndhdmi, Default Audio Device dmix:CARD=sndhdmi,DEV=0 sndhdmi, Direct sample mixing device dsnoop:CARD=sndhdmi,DEV=0 sndhdmi, Direct sample snooping device hw:CARD=sndhdmi,DEV=0 sndhdmi, Direct hardware device without any conversions plughw:CARD=sndhdmi,DEV=0 sndhdmi, Hardware device with all software conversions ----- regards

Hi! great forum, great distros! thanks Igor! I installed Debian Wheezy on Cubieboard A10, using for NAS, EmonCMS, webcams. Working really good. Yesterday I did an upgrade, something has gone wrong with linux-image-sun4i. I did wget -q -O - http://upgrade.armbian.com | bash like Igor told here then rebooted, the system is now ok but I can't use my webcams anymore: mario@cubieboard:~$ sudo LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libv4l/v4l1compat.so motion Failed to open /dev/video0: No such file or directory and mario@cubieboard:~$ ls /dev/video* ls: cannot access /dev/video*: No such file or directory What can I do? There must be a way to restore my /dev/video* resources! thanks in advance!

Hardware: Banana Pi Pro. The Android is based on Linux. Android very well plays Internet video HTML5. Therefore hardware resources allow to play Internet video HTML5. Bananian and Armbian doesn't play Internet video HTML5. Please help! How to play Internet video HTML5 on Bananian or Armbian? Someone did it? What results?

On a Banana PRO with Debian Jessie I installed the lightweight desktop and all is more or less usable except the web browsing. I been using Iceweasel and Epiphany Browser (I can find Midori on the included repositories) but are completely unusable. I suppose that images are using the philosophy of "Disabled all memory reservations for GPU" Is a problem about the dedicated RAM to the graphics engine? How I can change this memory split? Thanks in advance.

Hi. I'm a new user. I have a Banana PI M1+, that is connected to a monitor with maximum resolution of 1280x1024 and with only DVI port. I'm using Armbian_4.5_Bananapi_Debian_jessie_3.4.109, and I installed XFCE using tasksel. If I leave it without any user interaction, the monitor goes to sleep, and I'm not able to wake it up anymore. But it works, because I'm able to connect to it using putty from another computer. So I tried to install Armbian_4.5_Bananapi_Debian_jessie_3.4.109, but I have the same problem. I tried also to disable "Switch Off After" in the Display section of power management without success. Can someone help me please?

I use Armbian_4.3_wheezy on SD video with 1280x720p resolution. When I transfer to NAND, only with the resolution of 1028x1024p and can not adjust the resolution to 1280x720p. Already changed the script.bin file (via fex2bin), the uEnv.txt file (disp.screen0_output_mode = EDID: 1280x720p60) and not worked. How can I change the resolution to 1280x720p? Best Regards Marco Aurelio

hey, it is nearly everything said in the title. I want to use my cubietruck for playing streamed videos on my beamer. I don'T want to take my pc to the living room everytime i want to watch tv on my beamer, so i hope, there is a way to get the cubietruck working with vlc mediaplayer. Any tipps?

Hi every one, Im new on this form and this is my first time, when Im working with HummingBoard. On my HummingBoard is connected a little board with HDMI input and is connected with DVD Player. One another HDMI, which is on HummingBoard, is connected with Monitor, where I can see my console. So, my question is, how can I install, that my little board will become a video from DVD Player and streaming it to the HummingBoard, so, that I can see this video on my Monitor. Im using the Debian wheezy image Sorry for my english, hope for fast help