Nightly images for A64, H3, H5, H6 and R40 boards

Probably not but better to have a lot of drops than no image at all. Anyway, this is actually needed functionality because not all socs support all request api ffmpeg codecs (speaking more broadly, not just allwinner but also others, like rockchip).

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Well, I would expect at least the sound to be fine, if not the picture.

Nope. Audio and video are interdependent. If video doesn't work, audio won't work too.

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Cold boots doesn't work if you have ethernet plugged in (freezes before LibreELEC boot splash screen) and NIC leds are behaving weirdly, connecting ethernet once its booted up works fine and most of the time rebooting also works with ethernet still connected.

This is first time I hear for such problem. Unfortunately I don't have board in question so hopefully it will be solved in upstream at one point.

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H264 10-bit/Hi10P seems broken using the PRIME render and fails falling back to software rendering. It will load and play the file (sound only) but Kodi menu will still be shown and player controls are shown. Disabling PRIME render solves this issue but also disables any kind of hardware acceleration as expected.

HW doesn't support 10-bit H264 decoding (confirmed by AW). Kodi doesn't do SW rendering. You probably meant SW decoding but if you don't see any image, it isn't used. Currently driver doesn't report 10-bit as unsupported profile, so it tries and fails to decode it. That's why you don't see any image.

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cpufreq doesn't seem to work at all, looking at linux-sunxi.org suggests that support is in 5.8 (5.7 is used) so I guess this will arrive once Libreelec switches to 5.8 and if upstream dts contains required formation for cpufreq to work? Looking at the performance in software mode the cores seem to run at a pretty low frequency by default?

I already included all cpufreq related patches from 5.8. However, this functionality is enabled on per-board basis. So, if no one tested it on One Plus board and submitted a patch for it then this feature will not be present in any kernel. cpufreq is one of those things that it's better to be safe than sorry. Patch is probably just one line in dts but as I said, someone must guarantee stability on all devfreq points.

When using HW decoding and HW rendering through DRM planes (default settings) there is not much need for high CPU performance. Actually, if devfreq would work and proper governor would be set (currently it's set to performance due to shared config with other SoCs and they need it for stable SW CEC implementation), frequency would go much lower.

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Playback is great most of the time with some green screens here and there but the strangest thing is that video menus disappear on non 16:9 vids after some time. For example, on vids with vertical bars (4:3 ratio) portion of menus that go beyond black bars are not visible but parts of title and menu that runs over area where video is running are still there while on movies which have horizontal bars title and menus are not visible at all. Guess this is issue with lima/mesa.

This sounds like display driver issue, more specifically DE2 driver. I'm aware of one unfixed issue but it shouldn't be visible like this. I would need to reproduce it to figure it out...

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would you mind sharing the relevant boards you are having access to for testing?

My boards:

Not all are supported by LE (A83T, R40). While I have few RK boards, I don't use them. I have enough work with AW boards

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Just curious which ones we can expect being supported the best.

To be honest, I usually test only on one board for each SoC. And then, most SoCs have similar peripherals, so I usually develop features only on one SoC and transplant them to others and just do a quick test. I usually pull out other boards just when testing some specifics like wifi, bluetooth or ethernet.

I forgot to list OrangePi 3 board.

Thanks for nice words! To be fair, RK and AML projects are covered with very good developers too, but they have a bit less time to work on LE. We also work together on common features and one peripheral used on those SoCs is even the same (HDMI encoder), so improvements one make directly benefit others.

There will be no official support for BananaPi Zero due to low amount of RAM.

Add correct lines to scripts/uboot_helper. You have to create H2 section and add your board. Then copy project/Allwinner/devices/H3 to H2. After that, you're on your own

FYI, I prepared first test image for HDMI audio passthrough. More information here. For those who missed HW deinterlacing talk, check here.