Odroid N2+ > C5?

    Hello ,


    am using N2+ and it function really well,

    am using however CE since it better support all video format can playback everything (only struggle with .iso Playback)


    however the Youtube-Addon takes long time to load everytime several seconds again.


    now was wondering if could upgrade to the newer Chipset and found the C5 has it and even cost only half the price of the N2+ , which seems a great bargain.


    However , it seems there is no support yet and according to a another post, there won§t be , atleast from LE, down the road?


    Is there another item that could help with Youtube addon, besides RaspberryPi5?

    it should load fast and process fast.

    The Pi4 function bit better with youtube-addon--but aint perfect.

    Amlogic are actively upstreaming support for their "newer" chips (since SM1) but their developers are inexperienced at upstreaming to the mainline kernel and indoctrinated on their BSP codebase which "works, but don't ask how" so the initial state of all patches is poor and it takes many slow iterations to raise them to a mergeable standard. In the last week they started to upstream hardware decode support (to supersede the long-stalled upstream 'staging' driver effort) but this is going to be a very long slog.

    So I'm confident S905X5M will be supported, but don't ask me which year this will happen in, and please least limit yourself to asking for an update only every six months. And don't be offended when the answer is copy/pasted from the previous question :)

    RPi5 (my family daily driver) is a considerable performance bump over the RPi4. Rockchip RK3588 does not support VP9 hardware decode yet but like RPi5 has a ton of CPU. I would expect it and RK3576 to be nice boards in the mid-term future (long before the newer Amlogic stuff matures). There are lots of inexpensive Intel x86_64 devices these days too.