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Published in 2015-11-17 20:10:07 | Show all floors |Read mode
Edited by magicse at 2015-11-26 15:21

As there already is a thread about the GPU which successfully managed to get GPU drivers to work with the Allwinner H3 boards i now need help in getting video acceleration to work. There are no official drivers for linux, that work with the H3, but there seems to be an Android driver, that works. Here i read, that it is possible to use the Android drivers on Linux with libhybris:
http://linux-sunxi.org/CedarX/libve

Did anyone of you try it yet? Or are there other ways to get video acceleration to work? H264 in the beginning would be sufficiant already, although i want to have h265 support later as well...

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Published in 2015-12-8 02:27:04 | Show all floors
Edited by fritz at 2015-12-7 19:37

@jacer
Please don't use words like:will upload soon, it will be released in three weeks, you need to wait, we are debugging mali driver........,
This words are reserved and can only be used by @steven and some others mod's here!

When you want share something, ulpload it and that's it. Don't make "big" announcements!
My shared google-drive folder with compiled mpv  debian-package:
My shared H3 folder

install it with:
  1. sudo dpkg -i mpv_0.13.0_armhf.deb
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PS: if you can try first to build it yourself at least you learn something!

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Published in 2015-12-6 06:01:04 | Show all floors

h3-dev is now merged in master + add mpv

Edited by fritz at 2015-12-6 15:52

OK, here is the corrected How-To on a Lubuntu 14.04 (I don't have other debian based images and I don't want download others):
First you don't need mali for this!!!

install some packages:
  1. sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config git libx11-dev
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Then libvdpau (0.7.1)is to old on 14.04, you need newer. the simplest is to install it from packages:
  1. wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libv/libvdpau/libvdpau1_1.1.1-3_armhf.deb
  2. wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libv/libvdpau/libvdpau-dev_1.1.1-3_armhf.deb
  3. wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/v/vdpauinfo/vdpauinfo_1.0-1+b1_armhf.deb
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install packages with:
  1. sudo dpkg -i libvdpau1_1.1.1-3_armhf.deb
  2. sudo dpkg -i libvdpau-dev_1.1.1-3_armhf.deb
  3. sudo dpkg -i vdpauinfo_1.0-1+b1_armhf.deb
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Now compile and install libvdpau-sunxi:
  1. git clone https://github.com/linux-sunxi/libvdpau-sunxi.git
  2. cd libvdpau-sunxi
  3. make
  4. make install
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Set permissions for disp/ion/cedar devices:

sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/50-disp.rules
  1. KERNEL=="disp", MODE="0660", GROUP="video"
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sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/50-ion.rules
  1. KERNEL=="ion", MODE="0660", GROUP="video"
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sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/50-cedar.rules
  1. KERNEL=="cedar_dev", MODE="0660", GROUP="video"
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Then check if orangepi user is in the group "video"
if not add it. (on lubuntu it was not)
  1. sudo usermod -a -G video orangepi
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REBOOT

open a terminal and type:
vdpauinfo

It should display something like this:
  1. orangepi@orangepi:~$ vdpauinfo
  2. display: localhost:10.0   screen: 0
  3. Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  4. Error creating VDPAU device: 1
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Then export libvdpau-sunxi as VDPAU_DRIVER:
  1. orangepi@orangepi:~$ export VDPAU_DRIVER=sunxi
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Retype vdpauinfo and now if all is correct you should see something like this:
http://pastebin.com/4zBxArGF

Now you are ready to play some videos with mplayer or mpv:

  1. mplayer -fs -vo vdpau -vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffh264vdpau, test.mkv
  2. mpv --vo=vdpau --hwdec=vdpau --hwdec-codecs=all test.mkv
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Wit the "stock" mplayer you can use this HW-accelerated codecs:
  1. ffmpeg12vdpau ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg MPEG-1/2 (VDPAU)  [mpegvideo_vdpau]
  2. ffwmv3vdpau ffmpeg    problems  FFmpeg WMV3/WMV9 (VDPAU)  [wmv3_vdpau]
  3. ffvc1vdpau  ffmpeg    problems  FFmpeg WVC1 (VDPAU)  [vc1_vdpau]
  4. ffh264vdpau ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg H.264 (VDPAU)  [h264_vdpau]
  5. ffodivxvdpau ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg MPEG-4,DIVX-4/5 (VDPAU)  [mpeg4_vdpau]
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If you want to play HEVC/H.265 files you need to compile mplayer or mpv from source.
With a compiled mplayer 1.2 from source you can use this HW-accelerated codecs:
  1. ffmpeg12vdpau ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg MPEG-1/2 (VDPAU)  [mpegvideo]
  2. ffmpeg12vdpauold ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg MPEG-1/2 (VDPAU)  [mpegvideo_vdpau]
  3. ffwmv3vdpau ffmpeg    problems  FFmpeg WMV3/WMV9 (VDPAU)  [wmv3]
  4. ffwmv3vdpauold ffmpeg    problems  FFmpeg WMV3/WMV9 (VDPAU)  [wmv3_vdpau]
  5. ffvc1vdpau  ffmpeg    problems  FFmpeg WVC1 (VDPAU)  [vc1]
  6. ffvc1vdpauold ffmpeg    problems  FFmpeg WVC1 (VDPAU)  [vc1_vdpau]
  7. ffhevcvdpau ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg HEVC / H.265 (VDPAU)  [hevc]
  8. ffh264vdpau ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg H.264 (VDPAU)  [h264]
  9. ffh264vdpauold ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg H.264 (VDPAU)  [h264_vdpau]
  10. ffodivxvdpau ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg MPEG-4,DIVX-4/5 (VDPAU)  [mpeg4]
  11. ffodivxvdpauold ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg MPEG-4,DIVX-4/5 (VDPAU)  [mpeg4_vdpau]
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"New" commandline with new mplayer:
  1. mplayer -fs -vo vdpau -vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffh264vdpau,ffhevcvdpau, test.mkv
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If you need to compile mplayer or mpv chose mpv it works better!
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv-build#instructions-for-debian-and-ubuntu
This will build a debian-package mpv_0.13.0_armhf.deb  

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Published in 2016-9-21 21:18:30 | Show all floors
@lex replied at 2016-1-15 07:33
@Tokka,
I tried your conf without success, no hdmi sound output.
Since this has nothing to do with ...

Probably too late for you, but I had the same problem with no sound on HDMI, and solved it by adding
  1. ao=alsa:device=[hw:1,0]
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to ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf

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Published in 2015-11-18 02:41:16 | Show all floors
Outdated driver,we debugging new dev libs from allwinner,post results soon.

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Published in 2015-11-18 03:25:19 | Show all floors
Where are this new dev libs???????
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Published in 2015-11-18 03:55:27 | Show all floors
fritz replied at 2015-11-18 03:25
Where are this new dev libs???????

on my system,im developing kind of player to play videos,coming soon

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Published in 2015-11-18 04:01:49 | Show all floors
can you not share this libs?
are this libs from steven?
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Published in 2015-11-21 17:42:13 | Show all floors
That source code at https://github.com/allwinner-zh/media-codec seams good enough to try to make video acceleration working. Certanly I will try with my OpenELEC port.

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Published in 2015-11-21 18:45:57 | Show all floors
melanrz replied at 2015-11-18 03:55
on my system,im developing kind of player to play videos,coming soon

Could you tell us more about that new libs ??

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Published in 2015-11-21 19:04:10 | Show all floors
If my memory don't faults, libhybris are needed only xbmc. If you want to use mplayer the are not necessary.
On my A20 img mplayer play smooth 1080 without libhybris (using libvdpau), and xbmc play 1080 with libhybris.
Melanrz, which player are you developing?
OrangePi A20, with Qbee-X_testing

Still waiting for refund/replacement of no working op+2e bought on 11/11 >_<...really serious company

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Published in 2015-11-22 01:22:22 | Show all floors
libhybris is always needed when you want to use android binary on linux distribution, which is based on GNU lib C library. libvpdau supports only a few codecs in comparison of CedarX or android based libraries.

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Published in 2015-11-22 05:28:15 | Show all floors
tokka replied at 2015-11-21 12:04
If my memory don't faults, libhybris are needed only xbmc. If you want to use mplayer the are not ne ...

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libvdpau-sunxi on the A20 works far better then Allwinner's closed source implementation!

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