The newest offical Image of OrangePi PC2

kaiser · Published in 2017-1-11 16:21:30

Horrorzilla replied at 2017-1-11 12:09
No matter what the Allwinner H5 SoC can do it is pointless without any support.

So you want this to change? Want to watch videos in Chromium? In Linux? Easy: Just write the necessary plug-ins for Chromium on ARM (armhf when we're talking about H3, arm64 when we're talking about H5) and send the Chromium devs a pull request making use of VA-API using VDPAU (that's the APIs to interact with Allwinner's video engine, still nowhere Mali involved!)

And as soon as you understand where the culprit is (missing support in common Linux browsers to make use of the specific video engines on ARM hardware -- each per vendor and Allwinner being one of the worst choices here) you know who's to blame.

Horrorzilla · Published in 2017-1-12 05:39:32

Edited by Horrorzilla at 2017-1-12 05:42

kaiser replied at 2017-1-11 16:21
So you want this to change? Want to watch videos in Chromium? In Linux? Easy: Just write the necess ...

Has nothing to do with browsers - there is next to no support from OrangePi period. Most images won't even download. VLC, SMPlayer, Kodi - none can even play a standard definition video let alone 1080p, so 4K is a pipe dream for now. As I stated earlier - with this level of support it is pointless for now. I also do not contribute here - but I do in Armbian because they actually care about what they are doing. Running Armbian on my PC Plus 2E and it works great.

Kit · Published in 2017-1-12 05:45:42

Edited by Kit at 2017-1-12 05:49

kaiser replied at 2017-1-10 18:23
Nope, this is just the result of a HDMI-to-DVI converter in between and can be adjusted in the .dtb ...

Thank you, I will look at that.

By the way I am still looking for a minimalist OS, like Dietpi but for the H5. I plan to use my Pi PC2 headless.

kaiser · Published in 2017-1-13 23:17:32

Edited by kaiser at 2017-1-13 23:20

Horrorzilla replied at 2017-1-12 05:39
Has nothing to do with browsers - there is next to no support from OrangePi period. Most images won ...

A) Just with all Linux images for any Allwinner boards watching video HW accelerated in any browser does not work. Period. It can't work and that's due too high fragmentation here (every ARM SoC vendor using an own video engine) and the lack of devs wanting to spend time on this.

B) It is confirmed by exactly the guy who commited Cedrus support for H3 (jemk, Jens Kuske) that it's also working for H5 in the same way. As already mentioned all that's needed is the necessary environment (that means stuff like memory reservations, the necessary packages, config files and env variables, eg. this stuff https://github.com/igorpecovnik/ ... arddeb.sh#L272-L278 )

C) In the past community started pretty fast fixing all this stuff since default OS images from Xunlong were unfortunately not that great. In the meantime that changed since Xunlong hired someone (or even more people) to do software. This seems to discourage community members to spend their time with this boring basic stuff since why should any volunteer do the necessary steps for free when Xunlong pays someone else to do the job. So in the end Xunlong now spending more money on software seems to have quite the opposite effect of what has been intended

D) If I would have an OPi PC 2 here I would've already tested what's outlined in B) above since it's a no-brainer. The settings are known and arm64 packages available: http://beta.armbian.com/pool/ -- the problem is: I sent my PC 2 developer sample to jemk from B) above so I've nothing to play with. And this was the correct decision since jemk as a real developer added DRAM support for mainline u-boot in almost no time: https://github.com/jemk/u-boot/tree/apritzel-h5-dram (and now other linux-sunxi devs could continue with mainline kernel work for H5)

E) If all those people spending so much time on useless complaints would at least start to contribute in a useful way (see B) and D) above) you could already have what you want (at least HW accelerated video decoding up to 4K in mpv, maybe easily accessible from within common browser as outlined here https://forum.armbian.com/index. ... -very-slow/?p=23024 ). Instead: Only lame whining.

F) If you want a TV box then buy a TV box instead of a development board.

Horrorzilla · Published in 2017-1-14 01:48:35

kaiser replied at 2017-1-13 23:17
A) Just with all Linux images for any Allwinner boards watching video HW accelerated in any browser ...

Thanks for the links - I already have a few home-built TV boxes, I planned on using the PC 2 as a minimal computer for my kitchen. Would like to play a video at some point, but my main issue is at least a functional browser for looking up recipes. Unfortunately I am not very proficient at building images - so donating to Armbian is my best way of helping. I am quickly learning tho and hopeully can contribute more soon. Guess I got spoiled from the Raspberry Pi, Armbian and Odroid community - actual support and help.

xkzry · Published in 2017-1-26 23:32:19

Edited by xkzry at 2017-1-26 23:35

I am using OPi boards (all using Armbian Ubuntu) as headless servers :

OPi-One : remote rsync backup server.
OPi-PC : Postfix/Dovecot personal Mail server.
Another OPi-PC : LEMP server.

I am interested in the OPi PC2 to upgrade my LEMP server, as its CPU seems to be stronger.
However, I am still considering :

Is the H5 much stronger than H3 ?
Is the current image stable enough as a headless server (no need GUI) ?
Is frequency/voltage scaling working ?

Can anyone tell me please ?

manel00 · Published in 2017-4-17 06:07:40

Edited by manel00 at 2017-4-17 06:45

Hi everyone!

I'd like to know, if this image is really stable or just to get out of trouble? Could I install Kodi the last one for example?

PLEASE, NEED TO KNOW HOW COULD I CHANGE THE RESOLUTION

Thanks you very much

Regards

manel00 · Published in 2017-4-17 07:42:19

Hi again!

I'm having too much problems with space on disk, error says: there's no space at the left on the disk (something like this), SD is recently formated and I don't know how to resolve it, thank you very much

Regards

manel00 · Published in 2017-4-17 08:20:51

Edited by manel00 at 2017-4-17 08:26

When write this image on SD, it tells me that SD has been resized to 50mb (and it's 32GB) what should I do to write it on a SD with full capability?? I cannot install anything on SD card because with orange pi pc 2 image (this one) it shrinks to 50mb!!! and then, the orange pi OS runs too slow and cannot download anything, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!

Thanks

mousavy_mh · Published in 2017-9-11 07:13:05

Kit replied at 2017-1-12 05:45
Thank you, I will look at that.

By the way I am still looking for a minimalist OS, like Dietpi but ...

Was you success in connecting PC2 with your DVI Display? Will you help m on how can I do the same thing?