I'm looking to use the Rock64 for emulation and media playback. I will be running RetroPie, Batocera, Recalbox, Lakka, or RetroArch. Which ever one runs the best, or is easiest to set up will be fine. I plan to install Kodi into which ever OS I go with. One of them even has Kodi preinstalled. The emulation capabilities of the Rock64 are just fine for my expectations but I'm curious about how well it handles HDR video and also passthrough audio with Atmos. I searched around to see what people had to say but most of the posts are from two years ago or more, and I know that development usually moves along pretty quickly so issues from two years ago may have been solved by now.

I will be playing media locally with Kodi. Files will be in h.265 10 bit with HDR and most will have Dolby Digital Plus with Atmos, some will be Dolby TrueHD with Atmos. Output will be via HDMI into a home theater receiver that fully supports the above audio codecs.

Does anybody have any recent experience with this type of setup? Any problems with either HDR or Atmos passthrough?

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Hello,

I bought a fresh now rock64 along with the woodpecker USB to serial adapter. However, when I plug in the adapter to my computer in 3.3V, it is not recognized by the computer, and "dmesg" output remains silent, even though the led is lit. I tried multiple distros, kernel options and even Windows. The device just doesn't show up.

The adapter is correctly recognized in 5V mode, and the /dev/ttyUSB0 device gets created as expected. But apparently I should not use this mode to access my Rock64 console or I'll damage it.

What can I do ?

Thanks

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I have noted that Evolution crashed and also Libreoffice on Manjaro Plasma.
I was able to reinstall Evolution but Libreoffice remains busted, can't install.
I also noted numerous issues with updating in the terminal. After several tries
I was able to update. However Libreoffice remains busted and that is essential.

I plugged in usb c charger and heard my PBP making a chirping noise like a bird, I unplugged it and the USB C metal end felt really hot, tried using my simple pocket sized portable battery and my battery percentage LED turned off (that never happened before, bricked my portable battery), it seems to be sending current back towards whatever is supposed to be charging it. PBP was working until it ran out of battery (had no way of charging it, so PBP works, but now no way to add power)...
I tried the barrel charger, nothing (where before this incident it was working)...

I tried searching for threads related to my problem and found nothing. Will I have to open the PBP and change a fuse? USB-C port? Every month I use this thing it seems to pose me with a new engineering challenge.

I plugged in usb c charger and heard my PBP making a chirping noise like a bird, I unplugged it and the USB C metal end felt really hot almost burned my finger, tried using my simple pocket sized portable battery and my battery percentage LED turned off (that never happened before, bricked my portable battery), it seems to be sending current back towards whatever is supposed to be charging it. PBP was working until it ran out of battery (had no way of charging it, so PBP works, but now no way to add power)...
I tried the barrel charger, nothing (where before this incident it was working)...

I tried searching for threads related to my problem and found nothing. Will I have to open the PBP and change a fuse? USB-C port?

Hello, I am using the latest Arch with Phosh. In Phosh, there is a behaviour: when a notification arrives, the front LED starts to blink. However, sometimes I see the LED blinking for seemingly no reason, there are no notifications in the drop down menu. I tried to disable notifications for all apps except for Calls and Chats without effect. The main problem is that when it happens, the battery depletes much faster. For example, in the night it starts to blink. In the morning, battery is from 100% to 30%. Other night, everything works as expected and battery is at around 90%. I Don't know if the LED alone has that much power consumption, or if the phone cancels CRUST, or if something else happens. I can't say the exact frequency of it happening, maybe a few times a day. How can I go about it? I am wondering if there is a way to find out what is triggering the LED, perhaps some notification events history. Hope that this is written understandably, I tried to include the needed information. I will also provide more information if needed.

I'm hoping to run Armbian or Manjaro, with full disk encryption. However, I have failed to find much information about doing this. Could anyone give me some pointers? Also, do I need to do anything in particular, to ensure crypto extensions are used?

I would like to run the latest U-boot. However, I have some questions.

1. Does the PBP require a modified U-boot, or is it safe to run the latest code from the official repo?
   
2. All the tutorials that I have found either fail to mention where to get the files or they assume you're running Manjaro. Is there anywhere that I can get the files, without building them myself?
   
3. I'm hoping to run U-boot on an SD card and the OS on the eMMC. That way, if I mess up my U-boot, it will be easier to recover than taking apart the laptop. Is this as simple as completely erasing the eMMC and installing U-boot on an SD card? Is there anything that I need to be aware of?