Posts by iyah

  • Question regarding H618 board (I know there's nothing official for it)

    Thanks for the clarification Chewitt.

    So I just got wind of the H618 release built by jernej. Installed it and low and behold, it works well. For video.

    So would I be correct in presuming that I could *theoretically* take bits of his/her code, and make it part of the compilation, and have the decoders work in standard Jammy ? That I'd be willing to try ... if only I knew exactly what to take ...

    I'd imagine then I could end up with a standard Jammy kodi wth sound/video and what not .. ? I pressed "o" to see what decoders were running there (forget now) but have not done that on the std jammy compile.

    Do you think that would be worth a try ?

    Thanks

    iyah

  • Question regarding H618 board (I know there's nothing official for it)

    Hi LE Community,

    Took it upon myself to get Kodi going on the Opi 03.

    It actually goes ... to some extent.

    A clean Jammy install with a compiled (GS / GLES) Kodi has the Kodi UI (just UI, no videos) barely keeping up.

    So with the Opi config menu (orangepi-config) you select GPU and restart, and the panfrost drivers are loaded, as are a vew v4l drivers. Kodi UI is now quite good.

    Videos are mostly good. The issue is that even though *most* videos play ok, a look into the system menu shows that the CPU usage is still about 50-70 percent. This tells me that the CPU is still being used, at least partly, for rendering video.

    Question: Is that a fair assumption ?

    Then moving on to TV, I have the NextPVR client logged into a NextPVR server, and some HD channels play quite well. Again though, CPU usage for those is about 50-70%. Other HD channels however do not play well at all (and the CPU usage is up at 90-100%).

    This is some of the lsmod output:

    Question: Can someone explain why, after what seems to be a successful load of the GPU drivers, videos still don't use them (or maybe all of their capability) ?

    Maybe va issues ... ?

    Or any otherr general tips welcome.

    Thnaks and cheers

    Iyah

  • Odroid C5 support ?

    Naa .. I actually have the tuner working on a rpi4 with LE/NPVR (Thanks !!).
    I decided to pick up an HK since it was an AM905 board and I figured it would be (at some point) supported then by LE.

    Additionally the price point competes well with the Chinese boards (esp. for an AML chip), but still the HK quality and ecosystem. Still not so much support for rockchip unfortunately, and Allwinner just not getting any love in the LE/CE space.

    Oh well .. will wait and see if CE does anything here. Think I'm at the end of my abilities getting a driver for the tuner in there. Most likely needs to be compiled for the AML X5M. THose brain cells went into retirement more than 10 yrs ago :D

  • Odroid C5 support ?

    Great little board from HK cutting costs in interesting places in order to get a 6nm 2.5GHz chip onboard and keep the price at $40.

    Wondering if there'll be any support for this going forward.

    Tried getting my HP WinTV Nova S2 going without any luck so far.

    Any tips on getting that up and going with Ubuntu Server appreciated.