Kodi for rk35xx 5.10 legacy kernel

[Kein]

Thanks for all of your help!

I  use the stable version(Armbian_23.2.1_Rock-5b_jammy_legacy_5.10.160_xfce-amazingfated_desktop), and following the instructions add ppa and install kodi. It works so much better, chromium-browser plays youtube 4K movies very well.

But when I add add-on for youtuber, I got errors like inputstream.adaptive not available.

I check like this:
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kein@rock-5b:~$ sudo apt info kodi-inputstream-adaptive

[sudo] password for kein:

Package: kodi-inputstream-adaptive

Version: 19.0.0+ds1-2

Priority: optional

Section: universe/libs

Origin: Ubuntu

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers

Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers

Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug

Installed-Size: 2,372 kB

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libstdc++6 (>= 11), libwebm1 (>= 1.0.0.28), kodi-api-inputstream (>

= 3.0.1), kodi-api-inputstream (

Homepage: https://kodi.tv/

Download-Size: 574 kB

APT-Sources: http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy/universe arm64 Packages

Description: Adaptive inputstream addon for Kodi
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But  the problems is that package "kodi-api-inputstream" is not available at all.
 

Any hints?  

 

[peter.eismann]

Hi @Kein, 

 

I made good expierience in building kodi and the inputstream.adaptive - addon from the sources on github and not using the repository versions. 

Edited May 3 by peter.eismann

[peter.eismann]

@amazingfate I have one problem with the netflix addon though. It displays a green overlay "fog". Everything else works, I have the Amazon VOD addon working, the Disney+ addon works, I can play H264 as well as 4K HEVC videos with hardware acceleration. Does anyone expierence the same with Netflix?

 

 

 

Another thing is, that I have only one working rock 5b image. I have created it myself from armbian with the legacy kernel 5.10.160 as I need custom gpio overlays for using an IR receiver where the driver needs to be activated in the kernel. After that I installed everything based on the howtos for the Rock 5b. I built MPP, RGA, FFMPEG and Kodi and got real nice hardware accelleration. I could, however, never reproduce it to create a current how to. I tried using an edge kernel where the UARTs are supposed to be working and other features should be enabled, but when I start Kodi in a Wayland session I get this:

 

 

with the following errors in syslog: 

 

May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881239] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881258] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881265] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881271] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881278] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881284] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881299] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881306] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881312] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881319] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:07 rock-5b kernel: [  190.882731] vop2_isr: 198389 callbacks suppressed

 

I don't know what the difference is. I also get that behaviour using the same base image that is working in a new install. Up to now I did not find anything usefull with google or here in the forums. Maybe someone has seen it and can point me somewhere.

 

Thanks

Peter

 

Edited May 3 by peter.eismann

[amazingfate]

@peter.eismann I don't know about the netflix issue and I can't confirm that. Kodi does not run well inside a wayland session. You can try to login to a gbm session from display manager.

[peter.eismann]

ok, I'll try that, thanks

[peter.eismann]

so, I tried it again with the kernel 6.1.43 and with the instructions from the howto. That resulted in the scrambled picture when opening kodi. (see above post) Then I built mpp, rga, ffmpeg_rockchip and kodi new. After a restart I could not open kodi as it complained about the missing fbdev module. Then I build drm-package and the mesa driver again. Then kodi opened again only to give the following errors when opening a movie:

 

2024-05-06 09:43:53.882 T:6596     info <general>: Creating InputStream
2024-05-06 09:43:53.916 T:6596     info <general>: Creating Demuxer
2024-05-06 09:43:53.990 T:6596     info <general>: Opening stream: 0 source: 256
2024-05-06 09:43:53.990 T:6596     info <general>: Creating video codec with codec id: 173
2024-05-06 09:43:53.990 T:6596     info <general>: CDVDVideoCodecDRMPRIME::Open - using decoder Rockchip MPP (Media Process Platform) HEVC decoder
2024-05-06 09:43:53.991 T:6596     info <general>: Creating video thread
2024-05-06 09:43:53.991 T:6600     info <general>: running thread: video_thread
2024-05-06 09:43:53.992 T:6596     info <general>: Opening stream: 1 source: 256
2024-05-06 09:43:53.992 T:6596     info <general>: Finding audio codec for: 86060
2024-05-06 09:43:53.992 T:6596     info <general>: CDVDAudioCodecFFmpeg::Open() Successful opened audio decoder truehd
2024-05-06 09:43:53.992 T:6596     info <general>: OpenStream: Allowing max Out-Of-Sync Value of 10 ms
2024-05-06 09:43:53.992 T:6596     info <general>: Creating audio thread
2024-05-06 09:43:53.992 T:6601     info <general>: running thread: CVideoPlayerAudio::Process()
2024-05-06 09:43:53.992 T:6596     info <general>: Opening stream: 9 source: 256
2024-05-06 09:43:54.003 T:6601     info <general>: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86060, channels: 8, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through)
2024-05-06 09:43:54.032 T:1329    error <general>: CEGLImage::SupportsFormat - format not supported: YU10
2024-05-06 09:43:54.033 T:1329     info <general>: GLES: Selecting single pass rendering
2024-05-06 09:43:54.033 T:1329     info <general>: GLES: Selecting YUV 2 RGB shader
2024-05-06 09:43:54.033 T:1329    error <general>: CBaseRenderer::GetShaderFormat - unsupported format 179
2024-05-06 09:43:54.033 T:1329    error <general>: GLES: BaseYUV2RGBGLSLShader - unsupported format none
2024-05-06 09:43:54.034 T:1674     info <general>: Skipped 1 duplicate messages..

 

So this means, that the original howto's for Rock 5b do not work anymore. And I did not find any working or reproducible collection of steps needed to get kodi reliably working with hw acceleration. This is quite a nightmare. I have this thing for over a year now and i am not able to use it. 

Edited May 6 by peter.eismann

[amazingfate]

@peter.eismannYou are using EGL as render method, which will only support NV12 format.  You can try direct-to-plane.

[peter.eismann]

@amazingfateI finally made some progress. I've got a working 6.1.43 kernel with Ubuntu noble and the newest versions of Kodi and Inputstream adaptive. I have used the vendor-boogie-panthor configuration for armbian and added my IR Receiver settings. Unfortunately with Netflix the WivedineCDM lib does not work as the patches for glibc6 are missing. I know there is a patched version in your PPA, but since I use noble instead of jammy I was wondering what I need to do to build a patched libc6 myself. Do you remember how you built it? (glibc=1:2.35-0ubuntu3.4+2widevine)

Edited May 13 by peter.eismann

[amazingfate]

@peter.eismann I added patches to glibc: https://launchpad.net/~liujianfeng1994/+archive/ubuntu/rockchip-multimedia/+sourcefiles/glibc/1:2.35-0ubuntu3.4+2widevine/glibc_2.35-0ubuntu3.4+2widevine.debian.tar.xz

But it seems that this patch is no longer needed with newer glibc: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/widevine

[peter.eismann]

that did it, it works now and I don't have that green pricture anymore. Thanks a lot.