(10-08-2017, 03:46 PM)Kwiboo Wrote:

(10-08-2017, 02:22 PM)stuartiannaylor Wrote: with some libreelec hacks from Raybuntu & Kwiboo

Please refrain from calling our work a "hack". Me, LongChair and omegamoon have been working on ensuring that Kodi, FFmpeg and LibreELEC runs efficiently on Rockchip using DRM/KMS last few months.
We have direct contact with Rockchip engineers and have been keeping them busy fixing media playback and other issues we report in the rockchip 4.4 kernel. Lots of the kernel improvements we have made ourself should make its way back to rockchip's 4.4 kernel soon.

As for Kodi and desktop support Wayland is going to be the best way forward, all Kodi implementations for xserver I know of is using EGL for video rendering and that will only limit video rendering to the rather slow GPU. The video never hits the GPU when Kodi is running on LibreELEC, the GPU is only used for EGL/GLES rendering of GUI and OSD.

(10-08-2017, 04:24 PM)stuartiannaylor Wrote: Kodi is running efficiently on linux as it isn't.

(10-08-2017, 04:58 PM)Kwiboo Wrote:

(10-08-2017, 04:24 PM)stuartiannaylor Wrote: Kodi is running efficiently on linux as it isn't.

Xserver or linux desktop is of no interest to me, but running Kodi efficiently on linux very much is, and the most optimized and efficient way of doing just that is using pure DRM/KMS and bypassing any windowing system such as xserver/wayland exactly like we do with Kodi on LibreELEC linux.

You should be able to build Kodi/mpv/ffmpeg/mpp with the same patches and build flags we use with LibreELEC on any of the other images and run it very efficient when xserver/wayland is stopped.
All libmali libs provided by Rockchip for ROCK64 implements the EGL_KHR_platform_gbm extension and should work with our DRM/KMS Kodi/mpv patches. You will also need the patched libmali include files for proper EGL/GLES build support, see https://github.com/rockchip-linux/libmali/pull/15.

If you are looking for running Kodi on xserver and being caped by the GPU it should be possible using the armsoc driver and some patches from https://github.com/omegamoon/LibreELEC.tv/commits/master

(11-08-2017, 12:53 AM)jerhoads Wrote: Hello Kwiboo.  I have installed several Linux versions on my Rock64 and the only version that runs Kodi correctly is Radostan's LibreELEC build.  I would like to build a version of Kodi that runs on a minimal Debian/Ubuntu distribution, preferably without the XWindows environment as you mentioned above.  You also mention several patches in your post above.  Could you provide me with some kind of direction regarding how to approach building a stable version of Kodi on Debian?  Thank you in advance for your help.

(10-08-2017, 04:58 PM)Kwiboo Wrote:

(10-08-2017, 04:24 PM)stuartiannaylor Wrote: Kodi is running efficiently on linux as it isn't.

Xserver or linux desktop is of no interest to me, but running Kodi efficiently on linux very much is, and the most optimized and efficient way of doing just that is using pure DRM/KMS and bypassing any windowing system such as xserver/wayland exactly like we do with Kodi on LibreELEC linux.

You should be able to build Kodi/mpv/ffmpeg/mpp with the same patches and build flags we use with LibreELEC on any of the other images and run it very efficient when xserver/wayland is stopped.
All libmali libs provided by Rockchip for ROCK64 implements the EGL_KHR_platform_gbm extension and should work with our DRM/KMS Kodi/mpv patches. You will also need the patched libmali include files for proper EGL/GLES build support, see https://github.com/rockchip-linux/libmali/pull/15.

(11-08-2017, 04:49 PM)lnk Wrote:

(10-08-2017, 04:58 PM)Kwiboo Wrote:

(10-08-2017, 04:24 PM)stuartiannaylor Wrote: Kodi is running efficiently on linux as it isn't.

Xserver or linux desktop is of no interest to me, but running Kodi efficiently on linux very much is, and the most optimized and efficient way of doing just that is using pure DRM/KMS and bypassing any windowing system such as xserver/wayland exactly like we do with Kodi on LibreELEC linux.

You should be able to build Kodi/mpv/ffmpeg/mpp with the same patches and build flags we use with LibreELEC on any of the other images and run it very efficient when xserver/wayland is stopped.
All libmali libs provided by Rockchip for ROCK64 implements the EGL_KHR_platform_gbm extension and should work with our DRM/KMS Kodi/mpv patches. You will also need the patched libmali include files for proper EGL/GLES build support, see https://github.com/rockchip-linux/libmali/pull/15.

could you explain how to implement it inside stretch ?

(10-08-2017, 04:58 PM)Kwiboo Wrote:

(10-08-2017, 04:24 PM)stuartiannaylor Wrote: Kodi is running efficiently on linux as it isn't.

Xserver or linux desktop is of no interest to me, but running Kodi efficiently on linux very much is, and the most optimized and efficient way of doing just that is using pure DRM/KMS and bypassing any windowing system such as xserver/wayland exactly like we do with Kodi on LibreELEC linux.

You should be able to build Kodi/mpv/ffmpeg/mpp with the same patches and build flags we use with LibreELEC on any of the other images and run it very efficient when xserver/wayland is stopped.
All libmali libs provided by Rockchip for ROCK64 implements the EGL_KHR_platform_gbm extension and should work with our DRM/KMS Kodi/mpv patches. You will also need the patched libmali include files for proper EGL/GLES build support, see https://github.com/rockchip-linux/libmali/pull/15.

If you are looking for running Kodi on xserver and being caped by the GPU it should be possible using the armsoc driver and some patches from https://github.com/omegamoon/LibreELEC.tv/commits/master