Does DactNix Arch Linux support my use case?

[BlueGalaxy]

Video decoding is probably not working very well and not in all applications (https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Quartz64_De...ing_Status).

For both VLC and MPV it would only use CPU based decoding. Both use ffmpeg and VLC hasn't even transitioned to ffmpeg 5 and from that Upstreaming Status page you can see that there's not much progress wrt Hardware based decoding ... for 2.5 years now.

I see on that page it says
Video Decode  GStreamer only, no ffmpeg[7]

So if both VLC and MPV use ffmpeg, then they won't work?

Also on that same page it says

Current Status
Working

• eMMC
  
• SDMMC0 (SD cards)
  
• GMAC (Gigabit Ethernet)
  
• USB 2.0
  
• SATA 2
  
• SATA 3
  
• UART
  
  • UART 0 (Pi-bus)
    
  • UART 1 (Bluetooth)
    
  • UART 2 (Pi-bus, debug)
    
• Video Decode
  
  • VP8
    
  • H.264
    
• Video Encode
  
  • JPEG (it's pretty bad)
    
• Battery
  
• GPU
  
• Audio
  
  • Analog audio works
    
  • SPDIF works
    
  • HDMI works
    

• SPI — works, user needs to modify device tree to add devices
  
• I2C — works, user needs to modify device tree to add devices
  

I am interested in the Video Encode, Video Decode, and Audio sections.
Can you explain what these terms are, what does this mean? If I have an application video player, would it be runnable under current configurations?

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Those mentioned operating systems are not available on the PineTab2, the user thought you ask about the regular PineTab.

On this website I can see two kinds of Pinetabs:
https://pine64.com/product-category/pinetab/

There is the PINETAB2, the ARM version, which has a DectNix Arch Linux already installed.
And there is the PINETAB-V, the RISC-V version, which has no OS installed?

Are you suggesting that I should get the one without the OS, and install one of the OS's mentioned above onto it? It it hard to do for someone who has an intermediate level of Computer Science knowledge? Basically, does one need to be a Senior Engineer in order to install an OS onto that device, or can I figure it out by myself, using the documentation, ChatGPT, and this forum as assistance?

Those mentioned operating systems are not available on the PineTab2, the user thought you ask about the regular PineTab.

Please do not consider the PineTab2 at this point any further, it hasn't even shipped yet and is in an very early software state, including buggy WiFi, lack of Bluetooth, lack of working cameras and probably a lot more issues.

Those mentioned operating systems are not available on the PineTab2, the user thought you ask about the regular PineTab.

Please do not consider the PineTab2 at this point any further, it hasn't even shipped yet and is in an very early software state, including buggy WiFi, lack of Bluetooth, lack of working cameras and probably a lot more issues.

Those mentioned operating systems are not available on the PineTab2, the user thought you ask about the regular PineTab.

Please do not consider the PineTab2 at this point any further, it hasn't even shipped yet and is in an very early software state, including buggy WiFi, lack of Bluetooth, lack of working cameras and probably a lot more issues.