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Well, I’ve had extremely good results with Armbian for server stuff, which is why I’ve always tried testing with that. Networking, standard peripherals, etc. al

by rcarmo 2y ago

Well, I’ve had extremely good results with Armbian for server stuff, which is why I’ve always tried testing with that. Networking, standard peripherals, etc. all work, so the only real oddities are still GPU and specialized hardware support…

bayindirh 2y ago
The problem with Armbian is, while it's neatly packed and made with a lot of care, you lose board-specific capabilities, esp. in Rockchip systems. Using Armbian for OrangePi 5B means losing hardware accelerated video encoding, AI acceleration, etc. But, I bought the board for these features. I'd either use OrangePi's own, short living Debian image with all the features or an Armbian build which I won't be able to update cross-release but will be supported and developed, losing all the differentiating features of the board. There's no winning here. This is why Raspberry Pi is winning.
- rcarmo 2y ago
  Actually, the new Armbian releases do have GPU support (I mention that in my piece).
  - bayindirh 2y ago
    How about video encoding? I want to use mine as an on demand video encoder for a custom project.
    - einsteinx2 2y ago
      Maybe try reading TFA? There’s a whole section on transcoding.
      - bayindirh 2y ago
        The article states: Update: Like I mentioned above, in the weeks since I fleshed out this draft Armbian came out with an Ubuntu Noble version with improved MESA/VPU support, but I haven’t had time to test it yet. I’ll update this post when I do. Which is what I’m asking. The article doesn’t contain information on media transcoding with Armbian, and I asked the question to learn whether there is more info on that. Otherwise, OrangePi’s image already does what I want. Video encoding has a lot of patents attached to it, so the access to that IP block is not always open source due to plethora of reasons. It’s a very non-ideal situation for non-embedded use, hence the question.
        rcarmo 2y ago
        Video transcoding already worked with the version I tested.
        bayindirh 2y ago
        Thanks, that’s great. I’ll give it a go, then.
    - rcarmo 2y ago
      The Jellyfin version I tested comes with an ffmpeg build with RK3588 support.

by rcarmo 2y ago

bayindirh 2y ago

The problem with Armbian is, while it's neatly packed and made with a lot of care, you lose board-specific capabilities, esp. in Rockchip systems. Using Armbian for OrangePi 5B means losing hardware accelerated video encoding, AI acceleration, etc. But, I bought the board for these features. I'd either use OrangePi's own, short living Debian image with all the features or an Armbian build which I won't be able to update cross-release but will be supported and developed, losing all the differentiating features of the board. There's no winning here. This is why Raspberry Pi is winning.

rcarmo 2y ago
Actually, the new Armbian releases do have GPU support (I mention that in my piece).
- bayindirh 2y ago
  How about video encoding? I want to use mine as an on demand video encoder for a custom project.
  - einsteinx2 2y ago
    Maybe try reading TFA? There’s a whole section on transcoding.
    - bayindirh 2y ago
      The article states: Update: Like I mentioned above, in the weeks since I fleshed out this draft Armbian came out with an Ubuntu Noble version with improved MESA/VPU support, but I haven’t had time to test it yet. I’ll update this post when I do. Which is what I’m asking. The article doesn’t contain information on media transcoding with Armbian, and I asked the question to learn whether there is more info on that. Otherwise, OrangePi’s image already does what I want. Video encoding has a lot of patents attached to it, so the access to that IP block is not always open source due to plethora of reasons. It’s a very non-ideal situation for non-embedded use, hence the question.
      - rcarmo 2y ago
        Video transcoding already worked with the version I tested.
        bayindirh 2y ago
        Thanks, that’s great. I’ll give it a go, then.
  - rcarmo 2y ago
    The Jellyfin version I tested comes with an ffmpeg build with RK3588 support.