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Just quickly looking at Orange Pi 5 images without properly researching, the official site links to images on google drive, and armbian has an image with a 5.10

Just quickly looking at Orange Pi 5 images without properly researching, the official site links to images on google drive, and armbian has an image with a 5.10 kernel, that requires PPA's for 3D acceleration. There's got to be an SBC other than Raspberry Pi that has reasonable software support. Does anyone know? I'm not buying another SBC that advertises hardware video decoding but doesn't actually have the software for it, or requires one specific modified kernel version.

Havoc 2y ago
Late response sorry. The software situation is as you describe. Utter shitshow. Google drive hilariously is rate capped so half the time you can't even grab the image. The hardware is objectively better though. (notable exception being nvme throughput...the pi5 nvme hat will do faster than orange pi native) Unsure what the lay of the land is on hw decode, sorry
nyanmisaka 2y ago
RPi OS is also using a modified kernel and packages that include the v4l2 codec and FFmpeg (rpi-ffmpeg, which I ever tested). https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/commit/46f21cab3e8888233e8e825da2e1d4f91a2f919e https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/commit/46f21cab3e888823... https://github.com/jc-kynesim/rpi-ffmpeg https://github.com/jc-kynesim/rpi-ffmpeg These staging drivers do not exist in the Linux mainline. It means that you will not get hardware acceleration support when compiling and installing the kernel from `torvalds/linux` instead of `raspberrypi/linux`. As for the RK3588 SBCs, you are free to choose to use Linux 5.10 LTS (legacy) or 6.1 LTS kernel, both of which are officially supported by Rockchip. Or alternatively, use the bleed edge kernel 6.9. Official 3D acceleration will be available in Mesa 24.1 and Linux 6.10, and the developers have also backported it to 6.1 LTS for ease of use. In addition to Armbian, you can also use `ubuntu-rockchip`, which has full hardware-accelerated desktop/server Ubuntu 22.04/24.04 LTS support. https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip The VPU used by video decoding has nothing to do with 3D/GPU. With `ffmpeg-rockchip` and `libv4l-rkmpp` you get 4k@60 hw decoding support in Chromium and MPV player, and 8k@60 hw decoding support in Kodi. https://github.com/nyanmisaka/ffmpeg-rockchip/wiki/Rendering https://github.com/nyanmisaka/ffmpeg-rockchip/wiki/Rendering Jellyfin also provides complete transcoding pipeline support on the RK3588 based SBCs. https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration/rockchip https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-ac...
- jonatron 2y ago
  Thanks, this is really useful information.

Havoc 2y ago

Late response sorry. The software situation is as you describe. Utter shitshow. Google drive hilariously is rate capped so half the time you can't even grab the image. The hardware is objectively better though. (notable exception being nvme throughput...the pi5 nvme hat will do faster than orange pi native) Unsure what the lay of the land is on hw decode, sorry

nyanmisaka 2y ago

RPi OS is also using a modified kernel and packages that include the v4l2 codec and FFmpeg (rpi-ffmpeg, which I ever tested). https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/commit/46f21cab3e8888233e8e825da2e1d4f91a2f919e https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/commit/46f21cab3e888823... https://github.com/jc-kynesim/rpi-ffmpeg https://github.com/jc-kynesim/rpi-ffmpeg These staging drivers do not exist in the Linux mainline. It means that you will not get hardware acceleration support when compiling and installing the kernel from `torvalds/linux` instead of `raspberrypi/linux`. As for the RK3588 SBCs, you are free to choose to use Linux 5.10 LTS (legacy) or 6.1 LTS kernel, both of which are officially supported by Rockchip. Or alternatively, use the bleed edge kernel 6.9. Official 3D acceleration will be available in Mesa 24.1 and Linux 6.10, and the developers have also backported it to 6.1 LTS for ease of use. In addition to Armbian, you can also use `ubuntu-rockchip`, which has full hardware-accelerated desktop/server Ubuntu 22.04/24.04 LTS support. https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip The VPU used by video decoding has nothing to do with 3D/GPU. With `ffmpeg-rockchip` and `libv4l-rkmpp` you get 4k@60 hw decoding support in Chromium and MPV player, and 8k@60 hw decoding support in Kodi. https://github.com/nyanmisaka/ffmpeg-rockchip/wiki/Rendering https://github.com/nyanmisaka/ffmpeg-rockchip/wiki/Rendering Jellyfin also provides complete transcoding pipeline support on the RK3588 based SBCs. https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration/rockchip https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-ac...

jonatron 2y ago
Thanks, this is really useful information.