PINE A64 GPU hardware acceleration for movies

[Pander]

How can PINE A64 GPU hardware acceleration be enabled? Playing a 24 fps full HD MP4 movie is not working smoothly. Here are some results on Armbian Jammy cli from June 30 version 22.05.3 with only installing via apt-get:

- mpv, best result, probably ~10 fps

- mplayer -vo sdl/fbdev2, probably ~5 fps

- cvlc, probably 2~3 fps

- kodi, probably 1~2 fps

- gst123, could not get it running because issue with ALSA
 

The fps are sort of guessed. Any other software and tips for testing are welcome. None of the movies playing played sound. speaker-test also did not play sound even though alsamixer showed all is well. Tips for this please too.

 

What are the steps to take to install the (closed source) Mali driver and/or the (open source) Lima driver?

[Pander]

Regarding the sound issue, please see http://ix.io/48Ya

 

also

 

$ aplay -l -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
hw:CARD=sun50ia64audio,DEV=0
    sun50i-a64-audio, 1c22c00.dai-sun8i-codec-aif1 sun8i-codec-aif1-0
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=sun50ia64audio,DEV=0
    sun50i-a64-audio, 1c22c00.dai-sun8i-codec-aif1 sun8i-codec-aif1-0
    Hardware device with all software conversions
sysdefault:CARD=sun50ia64audio
    sun50i-a64-audio, 1c22c00.dai-sun8i-codec-aif1 sun8i-codec-aif1-0
    Default Audio Device
dmix:CARD=sun50ia64audio,DEV=0
    sun50i-a64-audio, 1c22c00.dai-sun8i-codec-aif1 sun8i-codec-aif1-0
    Direct sample mixing device
hw:CARD=sun9ihdmi,DEV=0
    sun9i-hdmi, SUN9I-HDMI PCM i2s-hifi-0
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=sun9ihdmi,DEV=0
    sun9i-hdmi, SUN9I-HDMI PCM i2s-hifi-0
    Hardware device with all software conversions
sysdefault:CARD=sun9ihdmi
    sun9i-hdmi, SUN9I-HDMI PCM i2s-hifi-0
    Default Audio Device
dmix:CARD=sun9ihdmi,DEV=0
    sun9i-hdmi, SUN9I-HDMI PCM i2s-hifi-0
    Direct sample mixing device
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sun50ia64audio [sun50i-a64-audio], device 0: 1c22c00.dai-sun8i-codec-aif1 sun8i-codec-aif1-0 [1c22c00.dai-sun8i-codec-aif1 sun8i-codec-aif1-0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: sun9ihdmi [sun9i-hdmi], device 0: SUN9I-HDMI PCM i2s-hifi-0 [SUN9I-HDMI PCM i2s-hifi-0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

 

[jernej]

You have a ton of posts on this forum which explain video decoding difficulties and what to do. Hint, GPU has nothing to do with it.

[Pander]

Thanks, do you have some hints that point in the same direction.