Efforts to improve video performance on meson64 based TV boxes
It is now 2 weeks I run linux-image-current-meson64 with no problems.
I manage to get rid of tearing while playing video with vlc by using wayland/weston instead of X11/openbox (picom did not help).
While playing video cpu goes from around 40% in X11 to 20% with weston \o/.
You can find vlcd.service, scripts and config files in attached files.
TODO list :
- Move vlcd.service to weston.service and try to replace vlc-xxxx.sh scripts with ~/.config/systemd/vlcd
This thread originally started under a topic about upgrading the kernel from a balbes image kernel to an armbian standard meson64 kernel. The goal of @lgranie in that topic was to be able to access more current kernels to take advantage of improvements. The balbes images stopped supporting amlogic devices on 2020-10-14 at kernel version 5.9.0 and he was looking for an upgrade path.