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I followed this forum and finally bought a transpeed-8k618-t to use via a micro SD card. It's been a lot of fun and enjoyable. Even though it only displays well on YouTube at 720p/30fps, I understand the box's capabilities. I'm thinking of installing eMMC, but I'm not sure. Can anyone recommend a proper eMMC installation method? I'd appreciate it. @Nick A Are you planning on making a Debian 13 trixie version?

@Igor is probably in the best position to answer when a new image for your board might be available. This is actually fairly easy to do by building your own image: "git clone https://github.com/armbian/build.git;cd build;./compile.sh" https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Building-with-Docker/ https://evilolaf.github.io/docupreview/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQcEFsXEJEE

Instructions to build mpv, for anyone trying it with trixie... I don't see any pre-compilation options related to v4l2request https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=360902#p2172777 https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv-build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdyX3k8vOhw

thank you so much for the link, after trying some of the older tinkerboard .deb archives from there I was able to install one that didn't have the two missing deps eventually and, lo and behold, I could even feel the accelerated desktop from the login window, even before confirming it with the much snappier webgl aquarium test, that jumped from about one fps to almost 60 there are still some kinks, like h264ify being installed but not doing squat (youtube is still av1 and hangs the whole system), but I'll take what I got for now as for the SOC being 2017....I'm fully aware that like everything Asus makes, it becomes e-waste after 2 years, I could probably try to flip this board online for $1 and no one would buy it, but I still believe it should be enough for me to stream video from my NAS on my secondary TV using 5-15W, kind of like those crappy Android sticks that plug into HDMI and an extra USB port I have yet to decide if my next SBC should be a rk3588 board or just bite the bullet and get some N100 SBC that's probably cheaper (I live in Europe, Orange Pi 5 probably goes for more than a used PS5 with all the taxes), can run anything and won't be forever stuck on whatever this year's trending distro is

Thanks for your comments, I am new to ARM installation, and never convert a Chromebook to Linux NoteBook, I am retired and doing that to my grand-kids…, I am more familiar with systems using Intel, AMD processor and a standard BIOS, my computer tower is a ‘Debian-Facile’, also called ‘DFlinux’. 1) To answer ‘Laibsch’, I planed to use Armbian Thinkerboard/s simply because it was the same RK3228 processor, and they are both mfg by Asus, and according to ‘NicoD’ Youtube video, Armbian-config let me easily install French version of Debian. To answer ‘The Tall Man’ 2) Archlinux is not my 1st choice, other class equipments, with school softwares are in Debian based distributions, and Archlinux has some differences in instructions, this is why I targeted a Debian based distribution to avoid futur problem 3) Currently for testing, I remove the ‘Write protection’ screw on the board, and in ‘Developer mode’, using and external USB, with CTL+U at start, is running Lubuntu 18.04, from Zutchi group image, but this version of Linux is old, and I failed to upgrade since Ubuntu no longer have 32 bits distribution. 4) I will try your suggestion using Armhf distribution from Debian (trixie) using EFI booter, Let me few days, I have other thinks to do, and I don’t want ‘Brick’ the machine, I will read carufelly and try to install on eMMC of the C100P to avoid, for the kids using external device with CTL+U. Thanks again for your time and your usefull comments

many thanks, JMCC but I couldn't, for the life of me get it to install. After trying to install whatever armhf .deb files I could, I got stuck with 3 missing deps. After more fiddling and basically copying every possible deb file to the apt cache, somehow I made it worse. I give up for today, it's been a couple of hours after my dayjob already. Wanted to use the tinkerboard a video streamer/lite computer for the bedroom but without acceleration for youtube, netflix and even my own movies, might as well get one of those crappy android sticks. I'm affraid that without some automagic script to run it all I'm lost this is what I succeded in getting: The following packages have unmet dependencies: media-buster-legacy-tinkerboard : Depends: qtmultimedia5-examples but it is not going to be installed Depends: qtgstreamer-plugins-qt5 but it is not going to be installed Depends: kodi-rk but it is not installable Depends: mpv-legacy but it is not installable Depends: librga2 but it is not installable

Hi! I'm building a custom board for the AM69 processor, which is similar to AM68. My question is if there is any Arabian support for AM69 with web browsing e.g Chromium with streaming ability such as Youtube/Netflix etc? Any pre-compiled builds?

Hi. I am not complaining. I just would like to understand why I must deactivate https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/liujianfeng1994/rockchip-multimedia/ubuntu/ if I want watching video on Youtube. If it's needed to disable this repo for watching video. I am ok. But why I can't read video with package from this repo? https://paste.armbian.com/vaxedisuda

Compiling your own image may sound daunting but is actually fairly easy. Help is also available, just ask. https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Building-with-Docker/ https://evilolaf.github.io/docupreview/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQcEFsXEJEE

hello everyone! I bought this tv box..https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009346784515.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.11.79e81802pgNRxu but after starting it was not possible to log in to googleplay even though I had a connection via wifi or ethernet. the preinstalled version for applications was Aptoide TV..through it I wanted to update all applications (youtube, netflix, etc.) I managed to do that but no application could be started. the original file manager did not show the internal memory or USB disk or SD card until I managed to download ES file manager through aptoide and it showed my flash disk I installed HW info device and there I found out that it was an RK3528 chip. so I wanted to flash the firmware and I used a rom image for H96max with the same parameters. the firmware upgrade went OK but the device is dead. I can't find the correct firmware. I'm attaching a photo--- maybe someone will recognize the board and identify which rom-img should be correct. the seller can't help me in any way.

Compiling your own image is actually quite easy. https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Building-with-Docker/ https://evilolaf.github.io/docupreview/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQcEFsXEJEE The name of your board is "rock-5t" and you will want to try out the vendor kernel, try something like "./compile.sh BOARD=rock-5t BRANCH=vendor RELEASE=noble BUILD_MINIMAL=yes KERNEL_BTF=no SHARE_LOG=yes". You will then share your logs and you can paste a link here if the build fails. "qmicli: command not found" means you do not have the package installed that provides the command. So, you need to find out what package that is and then install it. I suggest you install "sudo apt install command-not-found" first and then this information will come up automatically in the future. # from my computer $ qmicli Command 'qmicli' not found, but can be installed with: sudo apt install libqmi-utils This situation will be a learning experience for you, it is not very likely somebody will come out here and fix your situation for you (unless they have the same problem and want to fix it for themselves and then change something in Armbian for everyone's benefit). People are very willing to help and guide you, but you will essentially need to fix this for yourself and then hopefully share what you did so that others will benefit from your work. That is the power of open source.

Ok, I'm going to summarize for posterity. One can try ssh (which is enabled by default) with root/1234 (default), or the Debug TTY. This does exist on the NanoPi R6S between the USB-C Power and HDMI port. There are no headers soldered on, so that has to be done first with headers that can be purchased at one of the following URLs. https://www.adafruit.com/product/3009 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PKKY8BX Once the headers are one, you can connect to this port with a USB to UART device (preferably with a chip such as the CH340C, CP2104, FT232R) connected from another Windows, Linux or Mac computer. I suspect this device will work. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BBPX8B8 Debug TTY instructions are located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpVMO7gbnYM&t=226s Thanks!

I actually dont remember the exact order of install, but from what i can recall first i compiled and installed libva-v4l2-request-HACK_HEVC.zip and followed that tutorial then i downloaded h618_hwdec.tar.gz from https://www.elektroda.pl/rtvforum/topic4018092.html#20840047, those are the libs i replaced in /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ install latest edge kernel from armbian-config (or enable rolling updates), download kernel hearders and enable gpu in device tree overlays to compile mesa first install deps than creat a python venv in mesa src directory to download latest meson in it sudo apt-get install bison build-essential ccache clang cmake flex git glslang-tools libclang-dev libdrm-dev libelf-dev libexpat1-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev libgoogle-perftools-dev libgtk-3-dev libllvm-18-dev libomxil-bellagio-dev libpciaccess-dev libsensors-dev libspirv-tools-dev libunwind-dev libva-dev libvdpau-dev libvulkan-dev libwayland-dev libx11-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxatracker-dev libxcb-dri2-0-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libxcb-glx0-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-sync-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxdamage-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxrandr-dev libxshmfence-dev libxxf86vm-dev libzstd-dev llvm-18-dev meson ninja-build pkg-config python3-mako python3-pil wayland-protocols python3-venv python3 -m venv mesa_venv source mesa_venv/bin/activate pip3 install meson but if i tried to compile from inside the venv i was gettin a mako version error so i exited the venv (just open another terminal window) used this exact command to be able to build from outside the python3 venv PYTHON=~/src/mesa/mesa_venv/bin/python3 ~/src/mesa/mesa_venv/bin/meson setup build -Dbuildtype=release -Dprefix=/usr -Dgallium-drivers=panfrost -Dvulkan-drivers=panfrost -Dplatforms=x11 -Dvideo-codecs=all you need to add wayland to platforms if you're using it, i'm not (replace '~/src/mesa/mesa_venv/bin/python3' and '~/src/mesa/mesa_venv/bin/meson' with the path where you cloned the source...) install any other dependencies it complains about then install with sudo ninja -C build install you can confirm with glxinfo -B gabriel@orangepizero3:~/$ glxinfo -B name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer): Vendor: Mesa (0xffffffff) Device: Mali-G31 (Panfrost) (0xffffffff) Version: 25.2.0 Accelerated: yes Video memory: 3922MB ... i don't know if that libva hack is working but vainfo recognize gabriel@orangepizero3:~$ LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=v4l2_request vainfo libva info: VA-API version 1.20.0 libva info: User environment variable requested driver 'v4l2_request' libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/dri/v4l2_request_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_20 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 vainfo: VA-API version: 1.20 (libva 2.12.0) vainfo: Driver version: v4l2-request vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD and finally mpv (with yt-dlp installed) gabriel@orangepizero3:~/$ mpv --hwdec=drm --profile=fast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyzf2evNjwc (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264 1920x1080 29.970fps) (+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (opus 2ch 48000Hz) File tags: Uploader: Zen Mechanics Channel_URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC8n8afKsdaYuI7Pr0J4pgA Using hardware decoding (drm). AO: [pulse] 48000Hz stereo 2ch float VO: [gpu] 1920x1080 drm_prime[nv12] it is a bit confusing but i hope it helps... i also recommend this moded mpv handler with youtube playlist and mpv prefetch queueing support: https://github.com/gabreek/mpv-handler-queue

You are right. I just downloaded something from youtube and assumed it was H264. When I checked it in VLC in my PC, the codec is: AOMedia's AV1 video (av01) I picked another mp4, which I verified in VLC as H264-MPEG4, 720p, and it played with 10% CPU This test below is with Bookworm XFCE, compositor ON, Linux 6.15.4 with default configuration Then I repeat the test with a 1080p H264 mp4. mpv tries to use hardware acceleration, but the mpv is black and there's continuous DRM_IOCTL errors: Then I tried this inside /etc/mpv/mpv.conf hwdec=drm-prime drm-drmprime-video-plane=primary drm-draw-plane=overlay and the 1080p H264 starts playing fluidly with just 40% CPU (compositor off) With compositor on, I get same 40% CPU Same video glitches, with or without compositor, but I am getting hardware acceleration (although there's the hwdec unsupported message) Update: Thank you to all who helped me. I have hardware acceleration again with my opiz3 hwdec=drm is more efficient extraargs=cma=256 is needed to avoid memory allocation problems and video glitches. https://forum.armbian.com/topic/29202-orange-pi-zero-3/page/26/#findComment-222596

@ScoreABSM https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8394 I enabled gpu via overlay. Looking fine on my end. Tested using Chromium and Youtube. Still not sure about that audio dmesg error. Audio does work though. Image I ran test with: https://github.com/pyavitz/binary/releases/download/images/Armbian-unofficial_25.08.0-trunk_Bananapim4zero_bookworm_current_6.12.35_xfce_desktop.img.xz dmesgandmisc.txt

I don't even have a reference viewpoint what should I start comparing? I read claims that Python3-numpy, python3-opencv are highly optimized, but I never researched HOW OPTIMIZED I have also heard that DRM can help accelerate machine learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQz6VqvtehI&t=5m7s

You're welcome. Checkout its plugins, called 'modules' https://www.webmin.com/cgi-bin/search_third.cgi?modules=1 and https://www.niemueller.de/project/webmin/ but some may be outdated. I haven't installed this but I will soon when I tell myself to stop watching addictive adventure and "challenge" videos on youtube, haha

Yes the text "Speed: 1000Mb/s" posted in the white box confirms the speed is 1 Gigabit. In my experience, actual transfer speed of data to/from a mechanical hard drive should be around 80 to 100 Megabytes (with a "y") per second. But the transfer speed can be faster if data is going to/come from a solid state drive or internal NAND/EMMC. I have a 12 Terabyte hard drive in a budget USB external enclosure and it is connected to my amlogic tv box via USB 3.0, and the tv box is connected via Gigabit ethernet. I use it for backups and saving some large video files. The 80 to 90 Megabytes/sec speed over ethernet is fast enough for me. hehe ☺ I heard of Cockpit via youtube videos talking about remote administration. I was old-school and I had already install Webmin. But thanks for reminding me that Cockpit is another good option. Oh Tailscale? It seems to be fancy VPN service with file transfer and other features. That's cool. I'll give those a try someday. ☺ For just tinkering, my favorites are "md" software raid, zfs and it's raid features, Pi-Hole... and I want to try Prometheus and Grafana. But for everyday use, my favorites are straightforward Samba file server, rsync, vsftpd, xrdp remote desktop, and any remote administration that works, like Webmin. However, I want to try NFS file server on the tv box and NFS client in a Windows PC to determine if that is faster than Samba. Here is a video about that https://youtu.be/mOoO9mFE7BI Cheers mate - Peter

Could you please help me with a link or forum where I can find the image? I'd really appreciate your reply. I saw videos on YouTube showing how to make them work, but the download links are all broken. Thank you so much for your help.

Could you please help me with a link or forum where I can find the image? I'd really appreciate your reply. I saw videos on YouTube showing how to make them work, but the download links are all broken. Thank you so much for your help.

The previous post was mostly for slightly older releases of Armbian which includes Ubuntu 23 or Debian 10 and lower releases installed on a Tv Box. This short guide is for Ubuntu 24.04 and later releases installed on a Tv Box. This guide should also work for latest versions of Debian (but I didn't test it). Get a generic USB "sound card" audio adapter dongle from AliExpress, eBay, Amazon (etc). See the photo posted above (LINK). These gadgets are often between $2 and $5 USD but they all are usually similar, so I just got the lowest priced one at about $2.50 USD. Insert the USB "sound card" audio adapter dongle into your tv box. Create a new regular user in Linux, and login with the new user (not root). sudo adduser {user-name} Be sure your user is in the group 'audio' and 'sudo', and be sure you have logged in as the user (not root). sudo usermod -a -G audio,sudo {username} Now let's install and setup audio sound using Pipewire and WirePlumber (but not Pulse). First, install alsa base, and mixer software. sudo apt install -y alsa-base alsa-tools alsa-utils alsamixergui qasmixer Make a backup copy of these two text files /etc/modules and /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and save the backup copies in your home directory. cp -v /etc/modules $HOME/modules.backup cp -v /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf $HOME/alsa-base.conf.backup Edit the text file /etc/modules and write “snd-usb-audio” without quotes at the end of the file, and then save and close the file. sudo nano /etc/modules Edit the text file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and change and add some text sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf Put a hash # symbol in front of every “options snd-usb-audio index=-2” that you see in the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf - I found two instances. Add these two lines of text to the bottom of the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, and then save and close the file. alias snd-card-0 snd-usb-audio options snd-usb-audio index=0 Install pipewire and wireplumber and support files. sudo apt install -y pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber pipewire-audio-client-libraries gstreamer1.0-pipewire Optional to install a graphical media player smplayer, vlc, totem, (etc). and optional install a graphical audio player rhythmbox, audacious, (etc). sudo apt install -y smplayer sudo apt install -y audacious In case that the pulse audio system is still installed, we will disable it for the local user. systemctl --user --now disable pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket Enable pipewire for the local user systemctl --user --now enable pipewire pipewire-pulse To be sure everything will work, let's reboot sudo reboot Login as the regular user, and run some informative commands to prove that the USB dongle and the pipewire audio system are working. Use alsa player to list audio devices. aplay -l Use alsa player to list PCM audio outputs (use capital "L"). aplay -L Use wireplumber control to show status of audio outputs/inputs via pipewire. wpctl status Use wireplumber control to show a volume level of default output wpctl get-volume @DEFAULT_AUDIO_SINK@ Change the volume using alsa mixer, after running it, press up/down arrow keys, and press "q", "e", "z", "c" and "s" keys. alsamixer Change the volume +/- by ten percent using wireplumber control. wpctl set-volume @DEFAULT_AUDIO_SINK@ 10%+ wpctl set-volume @DEFAULT_AUDIO_SINK@ 10%- * Important * connect a headphone, or amplifier to the 3.5mm output jack 🎧 of the USB adapter dongle and play some audio files. aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav You can also login to the graphical desktop such as lxde or xfce4 and open a video/media player or an audio player software and play some audio files. I used Audacious for this example. Again, audio files are available in the directory /usr/share/sounds/alsa/ From here, you can use the wpctl command (LINK) or another control program for wireplumber. Maybe some of the Pulse audio tools would still work. Audacious works fine when playing locally stored audio files. The same should be true for using SMPlayer or VLC to play video files. Note that depending on the speed of your tv box, Youtube in Chrome / Chromium is sometimes laggy, has delays and resets. Other than that, it's all good. Enjoy ♪ ♫ ☺

I have installed Armbian community images several times on different tv boxes that have an Amlogic S905x3, and usually there was no sound ♫. I wanted to get sound out of the tv box. So, I purchased a generic USB sound card audio dongle from Aliexpress for about $2 to $3 USD. (see attached photo). The USB audio device is described in Linux as a Texas Instruments PCM2902 Audio Codec (USB PnP Sound Device device 0 USB Audio), and when you run the command lsusb you will see the id numbers 08bb:2902. However, the specific hardware chip in the device that you receive may be different. I updated the databases for repositories by running sudo apt update -y and installed necessary packages to support the USB audio device and to use a graphical desktop such as XFCE4, for example: sudo apt install -y smplayer alsa-base alsa-oss alsa-tools alsa-utils alsamixergui pulseaudio pavucontrol pavumeter You can use smplayer or vlc or another as long as it is modern media player or audio player. Now make a backup copy of these two text files /etc/modules and /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and save the backup copies in your home directory. Without quotes, edit the text file /etc/modules and write “snd-usb-audio” at the end of the file. Also, edit the text file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and change a few things. Put a hash # symbol in front of every “options snd-usb-audio index=-2” that you see in the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf . I found two of them. Add these two lines of text to the bottom of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf without quotes. "alias snd-card-0 snd-usb-audio" "options snd-usb-audio index=0" Make sure that your user is in the 'audio' group. Run the usermod command against a regular user (not root) that you want to use often. And reboot. sudo usermod -a G audio {username here} sudo reboot Login to the graphical desktop, open the volume control program by clicking on the panel Applications, Multimedia, PulseAudio Volume Control. Click the Configuration tab at the far right of the volume control program and change the profile to Analog Stereo. * Important – now connect a headset, earphone, or amplifier to the 3.5mm (⅛’’) 🎧 headphone receptacle on the USB audio dongle and play some sounds, music or youtube. You can use wav audio files in the directory /usr/share/sounds/alsa/ if you don't have an internet connection.

I've got this Android TV stick: https://shopee.com.my/RUBY-Smart-TV-24-Inch-Android-TV-Murah-TV-32-Inch-WiFi-4K-HDR-LED-Television-WiFi-Youtube-Netfli-i.1246310125.27851733843 Tried to run a progressive web app (PWA) and just learned that PWA is not supported by Android TV OS. I've found that since it's just a SBC, I can install any other OS on it and stumbled upon Armbian. Since I'm new, I would like to know what images is supported with this board and any related guides to install it. This board has 1 full HDMI port, 1 USB type A port for data, and 1 USB type C port for power only (this is just my assumption). No SD card slot. I just need it to be able to run a modern and latest browser to run the PWA. Thanks for all the help 😀

I happen to have got a Android tv box with a s905Y5 processor. I got this by a tv subscription from a company airtel in India. I unsubscribed from the subscription and my tv box is completely useless. it asks money for watching youtube!!!. I am extremely frustrated from this approach by this company so please help me save this from getting into e-waste. From my research i found that it runs android 14 with a custom launcher which checks for the subscription and a locked down kernel/bootloader which checks for signatures before boot. I came to know these from the uart output. I also found that it is basically a customised version of this box https://www.videostrong.com/products-show/vt9201-s905y5-aiot-solution

I have installed Armbian 23 Linux on my TX6 ATV box. I downloaded the image from the SMLinux repo. It was a kernel 6 build with Armbian 23 Jammy version. I added the Oibaf PPA for the graphics driver, then I installed Ubuntu Desktop. Luckily, I got graphics acceleration with the GNOME desktop, but it was laggy ui. I confirmed graphics acceleration using the glxinfo command and also tried glxgears. It was working pretty smoothly, like 60 FPS, same as my monitor refresh rate. Well, everything was great, but then when I tried to use Firefox and watch YouTube, it was so choppy and laggy. YouTube UI took 2 minutes to load. I thought I only had 131MB RAM available while using a heavy desktop like GNOME + browser, so I assumed it was the environment's fault. But then I installed XFCE and the experience was the same. It was still choppy and laggy, even with 1GB of RAM available this time. glxinfo and glxgears worked pretty fine, but the XFCE UI and Firefox animations were kind of glitchy. But the YouTube video itself was smooth — not the UI though. I managed to load a YouTube video using Firefox. There were frame drops like 83/300 so yea it wasn't fully smooth, but it was better than GNOME. So now my question is: Is this because I’m running it on an SD card? Or is there no full video acceleration? Is there any way for me to get full video acceleration? Because the Panfrost driver was working and loaded.