steps for a working Kodi

[Dome]

I have a new Orange Pi 5 plus 16GB. Seems a pretty cool board and I want to replace my old Rpi 4 for Media center and Home assistant.

 

I tried several distribution but can't get all my stuff working.

The OPI5+ is attached to an onkio 5.1 receiver and the receiver go to a FHD TV.

What is want to achieve is

 

in Kodi

1. play video with GPU

2. libCec in Kodi to control Onkio volume

3. Passthrough audio

 

Is there a working solution?

 

Thank you

 

[Werner]

I don't think there is an oob solution.

Though using an Armbian image with mesa-vpu extension should give a solid base for video hw acceleration.

[Dome]

There are so many images

https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-5-plus/

 

Which one? kernel 6.1 or kernel 6.12?

 

No one is using OPI for kodi?

Not looking for a oob solution but a step by step guide will be useful

 

 

[Robert Pace]

I've had issues with kernel 6.12 in the recent past  with I2C hardware support, but Kernel 6.1.84 is rock solid.

[Werner]

1 hour ago, Robert Pace said:

6.1.84

Yes. vendor kernel is also necessary for vpu to work. mainline support is still wip.

[Dome]

thanks guys

 

I am trying

Armbian_24.11.2_Orangepi5-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.75_kde-neon-kisak_desktop

 

kde is running with wayland

glmark2 is using panfrost driver

kodi worked with HW accell after installing mesa vulkan driver and enabling DRM Prime

 

I must run kodi with

KODI_AE_SINK=ALSA kodi

otherwise I don't have hdmi0 output. And kodi is running from kde with "-fs" flag

 

With alsamixer I changed the channel PATHs because channels are incorrent, my setup for 5.1 is PATH2-PATH0-PATH1 (I think PATH3 is not used, maybe it's for 7.1)

 

Now I am missing CEC connection. Maybe I can try with another kernel or some overlay?

How can I change only the kernel? maybe with the suggested 6.1.84?

 

 

 

 

[Werner]

Feel free to use this one I actually made for testing purpose but hadn't had a chance to do so yet: https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/.testing/Armbian-unofficial_25.02.0-trunk_Orangepi5-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.84_kde-neon-kisak_desktop.img.xz

[ozacas]

To ease dependency maintenance, I've used the flatpak kodi on a different rk3588 SBC - works well, but surround sound is not something i've spent time on (i'm happy with stereo)

 

The only gotcha, is migrating your kodi settings to the flatpak storage location, which is a bit funky

~/.var/app/tv.kodi.Kodi/

See https://flathub.org/apps/tv.kodi.Kodi for install details

 

this results in the attached kodi startup log which you can inspect for the current configured capabilities:
kodi.log

[Tony3]

I am using Kodi since years with armbian on orange pi 5 and also orange pi 5 plus. I followed instruction, installed armbian of august I think with the vendor kernel and the Wayland version. The Install come with all hardware video acceleration installed. Then simply install Kodi and configured it.

It is working great.

I also rebuilt kernel in order to have my satellite tuners working.

Great platform not too many issues.

[Dome]

Hi Tony3.

Could you please give me a link of the image?

 

My other attempt was with kernel 6.12, video is accelerated but I am missing hdmi0 audio output.

Gave a try to collab kernel -board freeze- and edge, same with current

 

thank you

 

[Tony3]

I checked dates, I used the armbian noble 6.1 vendor Wayland published before the 20/06/2024

[Dome]

ok. My first working kodi configuration is with

Armbian_24.8.1_Orangepi5-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.75_gnome-kisak_desktop

 

any kernel above have a problem with HW rendering or audio output (alsa doesn't show hdmi output).

I managed to have a working HDMI CEC in kodi upgrading the package to libcec6_6.0.2-5_arm64 downloaded from bookworm.

 

Currently I'm happy with kodi but I have no audio from normal desktop, will give a try disabling pulseaudio.

 

 

[Andrey Stepanov]

2 часа назад, Dome сказал:

My first working kodi configuration

I'm very curious how you managed to make it work. With Armbian_24.11.2_Orangepi5-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.75_gnome-kisak_desktop, hardware video acceleration works fine for me, but HDMI audio doesn't work, and with Armbian_24.8.1_Orangepi5-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.75_gnome-kisak_desktop, Kodi only shows a black screen instead of the main menu and spams error <general>: CDRMAtomic::DrmAtomicCommit - atomic commit failed: Invalid argument in the logs.

[Werner]

Have you tried with the image I linked above? This is based around updated rockchip sdk kernel.

[Andrey Stepanov]

This image actually works, I have both hardware acceleration and audio, thanks.

[Dome]

Hi Werner.

Using the kernel in your image I have a problem with Hardware rendering: I can select DRM Prime but when I play h264 videos I got artifacts and the player doesn't go in foreground.

 

So Andrey, did you use the image provided by Werner? with HDMI audio 5.1 from Kodi?