CSC Armbian for RK3318/RK3328 TV box boards

[CorentinR]

Hi,

First of all i'd like to thanks thanks all of you for your job or questions that help me to rescue from trash rk3318 based devices.

I recover from a friend a X88 pro 10 (4G/128G), witch is a really chip old android-box. I looking for making a media center running kodi and and minimal web browser for unsupported kodi streaming services.

I successfully install armbian_community trunk (Rk3318-box_noble_current_6.xx.xx_xfce_desktop.img.xz) using multitool. 

Spoiler

recover with original X88pro_B_rk3318_d4_11.0_SP6330_20210125_r1(X88pro10 1.0.1).img with Linux_Upgrade_Tool (RK-wiki | github)

 

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 v26.2 rolling for RK3318 Box running Armbian Linux 6.18.21-current-rockchip64

 Packages:     Ubuntu stable (noble)
 Support:      for advanced users (rolling release)
 IPv4:         (LAN) 192.168.xxx.xxx (WAN) xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 

 Performance:  

 Load:         2%                Uptime:         1d 22h 21m    
 Memory usage: 14% of 3.87G      
 CPU temp:     45°C                Usage of /:   6% of 114G       
 RX today:     1 MiB               

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I run rk3318-config and choose this config:

• RK3318 (max 1.1Ghz...)
• no selection on eMMC additional speed options
• rk3318-box-led-conf2 X88_PR_B_boards

Reboot and Install kodi and codec with :

sudo apt install ffmpeg mpv kodi kodi-repository-kodi --install-recommends

 

I have some issues :

1. xfce menu is quite slow when I navigate for choosing app.
2. chromium is very very slow and video on youtube are too lagy when decoding 
3. Kodi works on xfce but can't decode video, i try on standalone (choose on connection window), still can't decode.

I looking on this post without success and this one, same issue.

 

If anyone have a idea to help me to save this device and make me able to use it as a media center.

 

Thanks

[Sharkam]

@usual user can we achieve in browser video hardware acceleration now, and how? 

I tried many combinations with no success. Any suggestions are highly appreciated! 

[usual user]

22 hours ago, Sharkam said:

can we achieve in browser video hardware acceleration now, and how?

I haven't looked at this use case for a very long time. I can no longer remember since when it has worked out-of-the-box for me. Since decoder support has been part of the GStreamer framework for a very long time, hardware-supported video decoding works for all browsers that use this framework with the standard packages of the distribution of my choice.
When v4lrequest support was still implemented with the out-of-tree patches using the stateful method, it also worked with Firefox out-of-the-box. Just an accordingly patched FFmpeg framework was required. This is likely no longer going to work with the current patches for the FFmpeg framework and requires an additional implementation in Firefox. I suspect, however, that this will only happen after the official inclusion of v4lrequest support in the FFmpeg framework, as is also the case with MPV. To what extent patches for Firefox are already available is unknown to me. For the distribution of my choice, I have in any case rebuilt the FFmpeg and MPV packages with the corresponding patches.
I have to confess that I usually use Firefox and the video decoding works flawlessly for my use cases. However, I cannot say whether this is actually hardware-accelerated, because the SBCs I use with a graphical Desktop are powerful enough to function sufficiently even with only software decoding.
I'm just taking the lazy way here and waiting for it to end up in Manline. For SBCs that need hardware acceleration, I simply use a browser that uses the GStreamer framework.