NanoPi R5C video performance expectations

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Hi everyone

Did anyone manage to get hardware acceleration up and running on his nanopi r5c board, of course without using the manufacturers android image :smiley:

I was planning to use this SBC to run several services like wireguard, adguard home etc and also directly plug it into the TV to use with Kodi. If I can’t get hardware acceleration working I could also use it with Jellyfin, so not the end of the world.

Also, can someone point me in the direction of how these things are generally done? I am a software engineer and have linux experience, so there is something I can build up on.

By how can this can generally be done I mean how can I look for the graphics drivers and implement them. Online I only found very specific instructions for specific hardware.

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Hey, were you able to find something on this?

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No…
I completely gave up with video acceleration dreams on chinese SoC’s.
I should have gotten a raspberry pi or something if I wanted the best of both worlds

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Yes I have but it isn’t really good. Docker works

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Currently the best HW supported current images are the official Friendlyelec 6.1 Kernel based ones. But there’s also mainline support (as far as I know without HW accel) Images for that can be build with GitHub - pyavitz/debian-image-builder: Debian image builder for single board computers