gop3k Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 (edited) Hello, sorry for the dumb questions incoming, thanks for your time. Lately I spent a lot of time searching for a working image to run Kodi with wifi/ethernet/bluetooh on this board. Does anybody managed to play videos on Kodi on this SBC ? If yes, what armbian image should I choose for this purpose ? Do I have to build the image myself ? Tested LibreElec for this but no wifi because the drivers are out-of-the-tree, not in mainline Kernel. Read about my problem in many posts but didn't find what I was searching for... Not even sure if this SBC can be used as a linux media player. Any tip/link/guide/wiki on how to successfully install kodi/hardware acceleration/video decoding/needed drivers for this board will be much appreciated. Edited March 2 by gop3k 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy H Posted August 7 Share Posted August 7 Hi @gop3k I've been having the same issues on the Orange Pi 3 LTS. Video is really choppy and unwatchable, and I can't figure out why. I know it's possible to play video smoothly on this board because I can do so with the Android OS that came on the device. I actually reinstalled Android on an sd card (you have to use Allwinner's proprietary sd flashing tool) so I could actually use it for Kodi in the short term. But ideally I'd like to get Armbian working. I'm using a recent Armbian build for the Orange Pi 3 LTS: Armbian_community_24.8.0-trunk.495_Orangepi3-lts_noble_current_6.6.36_gnome_desktop I have done some research, which I'll outline below. I'm certain some of my understanding must be wrong, so take that for what it's worth. If someone is willing to correct me I'm happy to be corrected. I think that the gpu is not working properly in the most recent builds. I found that in older builds using Allwinner H6 chips that some people had to manually enable the GPU, but it looks like it is enabled but not working properly. The Allwinner H6 has a Mali-T720 MP2 GPU and Panfrost is the open source driver for it. I used the commands from here to make sure Panfrost is installed, enabled, and working. Which all seemed to be true in this build. But when I run glmark2 I get a score of around 85-100. Based on research this seems to be half of what the Allwinner H6 is capable of. Running armbian-config I see the option to enable hardware features, and as far as I know, this shows the different overlays you can enable in the device tree to tell the kernel about your hardware. These overlays are located in /boot/dts/allwinner/overlay/. A problem with the overlays is that many of them seem to be for the Allwinner H616 cpu. Which I know is just an updated version of the H6, but I'm wondering if that's causing problems. There is an option to enable the H616 gpu, which I turned on, then restarted. I still got the same 85-100 range of scores in glmark2. Could it be that Armbian is trying to use settings for the H616 instead of the H6 and that could be causing problems? I tried doing a custom build myself, which failed so I'll need to look into that if I want to try it again. But for now I'm going to try using an older automated build to see if that makes any difference. I'll respond again if I have anything to report. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy H Posted August 22 Share Posted August 22 Here to report back.... I couldn't get anything to work. I tried a lot of things over a long time, and nothing. I've read through forum posts, I've tried running a custom build multiple times which either failed or wouldn't boot. I am feeling pretty hopeless about this board ever working for video with linux. I guess I'll just have to install the Android back onto it and live with that until I buy another board. I read somewhere that the orange pi 3b is a better version of the 3 LTS, and it looks to have more support everywhere. I guess I'll try that next. I don't know of any other boards in this price range that should be able to do 4k video. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jernej Posted August 22 Share Posted August 22 If you want Kodi and smooth video playback, you can always check LibreELEC. OPi3-LTS has some bugs, so best build is here, but you can wait for next point release which will be done in about a week. Video playback needs some work in progress software if you want smooth experience, which afaik is not present (yet) in Armbian. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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