Unable to change resolution and poor performance

[dkryder]

the hardware acceleration on pine64/lts is due to libmali being used and that is somewhat limited as to the feature set it provides. as far as 1024x600 being available you may have to put in a request because as far as i know there are 3 resolutions that are provided by the standard linux builds, 1920x1080, 1280x720 , & 800x600. since you fail to mention, best overall performance is with emmc or moving filesystem to ssd and just boot from sd card. i'm not really sure about "proper decoding" of h.264 on pine64 /lts systems at this point. you might understand the graphics situation on the pine64/lts series if you would spend a couple hours reading on the forum here and armbian about the specifics surrounding grahics in general and hardware acceleration specifically because the reality of it is hardware acceleration on the pine64/lts has only just become available since maybe july of 2017 and could be classified as somewhat of a hack that it is even able to do any hardware acceleration because prior to recent advances it was not. bottom line is you seem to have a fairly demanding use case for the pine64/lts as far as what it may be currently able to deliver but before you get all frustrated wait for additional responses because i certainly may not be completely up to date.