How to do hardware decoding of video?

[zet_lab]

So is there no fleshed out procedure on how to use hardware decoding on this board in Linux yet?

As I wrote hardware acceleration is fully supported on Rock64 (or many other Rockchip devices with MPP libraries).
The right questions:

• Is your video player aware of this ?
  
• Are you ready to configure your video player (ffmpeg based) to use hardware accelerated decoding ?
  • ffmpeg must be compiled with "--enable-rkmpp" and "--enable-libdrm"
    
  • video player must request "h264_rkmpp", "hevc_rkmpp", "vp8_rkmpp" or "vp9_rkmpp" decoder from ffmpeg
    
  • video player must handle/display "AV_PIX_FMT_DRM_PRIME" (DRM DMA buffers) format to render output to DRM plane (best with DRM atomic)
    
• Are you ready to enhance/reprogram/redesign your video player to use hardware accelerated decoding chain ?
  
• Are you able to contact developers of your video player to make this setup for you (for fee, beer or free) ?
  

If not, you should use MPV/KODI/rkplayer instead of your "randomly" chosen video player (from hundreds of available video players).

I do not pretend to use some special player, but in the assemblies from Ayufan can not normally use even MPV or SM Player, only through some cunning manipulation.

You can immediately make the person started the video and it is not played immediately in full screen, where it is not clear how to manage it, and about working with the playlist, I'm silent at all