CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards

[Harleyyyu]

Hello, I just created this account!

I just want to ask if the newer OS / Firmware has VPU + MPP support? I've been trying to build OpenAuto for the RK3229 and the only issue im having is the lack of h264 decoding (i only need h264, but it would be nice to have a full support)

I'm using the latest trixie (minimal) with somewhat of a success, except for a laggy video decoding due to again lack of h264.

I can't seem to find an older build with a kernel of 4.4.xxx that probably has the full GPU support with VPU + MPP working.

[jock]

@Harleyyyu  See this thread; hardware video decoding works fine with mainline kernel and does not need vendor MPP. Debian Trixie although has a "broken" mpv that won't work, better stay with Bookworm

 

[Harleyyyu]

@jock I'll try this, if it works i'll share the result of how OpenAuto Works on the RK3229. I might also release a build specifically for it.

Thanks!

[Harleyyyu]

Okay an update:

Thank you @jock for the answer i've been looking for, I've managed to make use of the hardware acceleration (H.264) of my RK3229 on Android Auto (OpenAuto) but it's a complicated process i had to do.

- I had to build my own aasdk and openauto from the git repository and test it as it is. running raw Open Auto showed the following issues:

• for openauto GUI it runs via linuxfb (trying to fix but still can't find a workaround)
• AndroidAuto stream decode was only running x264 (software decoding) [fixed tho] This has been fixed by doing a custom code for OpenAuto to utilize Kmssink (now works in 720p 30fps, going 60 adds a lot of latency but it's smooth!)
• Audio Not Working (i think can be fixed by pulse audio or just do direct hardware) [Patched: now uses RTAudio ALSA] 
• Probably more since im only testing Audio Video as of right now.

OpenAuto: RK3229 Armbian Github Repository if ever you want to try it!

Edited 6 hours ago by Harleyyyu

[Dangrain]

Hey friends, I'm back.

Well, good news. I got the box to boot from an SD card, specifically the 'Armbian_23.08.0-trunk_Rk322x-box_buster_edge_6.5.5_minimal.img' image, bad news I am not sure how to get it onto the eMCP and this is probably not the way you're supposed to boot armbian. I got the rk322x-box.dtb from the 'LibreELEC-RK322X.arm-11.0-nightly-20240218-d7324fb-rk322x.img' image (used by KanexMarcus in the comment here) and I had to add 'irqpoll' to extraargs in armbianEnv.txt, only after that did it boot. Ethernet works, wireless doesn't, using lsblk doesn't display the internal storage. Not sure what to do now, just figured I'd check in just to tell everyone what's going on and how I got it working.