Thanks for all of your help!

I  use the stable version(Armbian_23.2.1_Rock-5b_jammy_legacy_5.10.160_xfce-amazingfated_desktop), and following the instructions add ppa and install kodi. It works so much better, chromium-browser plays youtube 4K movies very well.

But when I add add-on for youtuber, I got errors like inputstream.adaptive not available.

I check like this:
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kein@rock-5b:~$ sudo apt info kodi-inputstream-adaptive

[sudo] password for kein:

Package: kodi-inputstream-adaptive

Version: 19.0.0+ds1-2

Priority: optional

Section: universe/libs

Origin: Ubuntu

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers

Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers

Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug

Installed-Size: 2,372 kB

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libstdc++6 (>= 11), libwebm1 (>= 1.0.0.28), kodi-api-inputstream (>

= 3.0.1), kodi-api-inputstream (

Homepage: https://kodi.tv/

Download-Size: 574 kB

APT-Sources: http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy/universe arm64 Packages

Description: Adaptive inputstream addon for Kodi
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But  the problems is that package "kodi-api-inputstream" is not available at all.
 

Any hints?  

 

Hi @Kein, 

 

I made good expierience in building kodi and the inputstream.adaptive - addon from the sources on github and not using the repository versions. 

Edited May 3, 20242 yr by peter.eismann

@amazingfate I have one problem with the netflix addon though. It displays a green overlay "fog". Everything else works, I have the Amazon VOD addon working, the Disney+ addon works, I can play H264 as well as 4K HEVC videos with hardware acceleration. Does anyone expierence the same with Netflix?

 

 

 

Another thing is, that I have only one working rock 5b image. I have created it myself from armbian with the legacy kernel 5.10.160 as I need custom gpio overlays for using an IR receiver where the driver needs to be activated in the kernel. After that I installed everything based on the howtos for the Rock 5b. I built MPP, RGA, FFMPEG and Kodi and got real nice hardware accelleration. I could, however, never reproduce it to create a current how to. I tried using an edge kernel where the UARTs are supposed to be working and other features should be enabled, but when I start Kodi in a Wayland session I get this:

 

 

with the following errors in syslog: 

 

May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881239] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881258] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881265] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881271] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881278] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881284] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881299] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881306] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881312] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:02 rock-5b kernel: [  185.881319] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
May  3 12:03:07 rock-5b kernel: [  190.882731] vop2_isr: 198389 callbacks suppressed

 

I don't know what the difference is. I also get that behaviour using the same base image that is working in a new install. Up to now I did not find anything usefull with google or here in the forums. Maybe someone has seen it and can point me somewhere.

 

Thanks

Peter

 

Edited May 3, 20242 yr by peter.eismann

@peter.eismann I don't know about the netflix issue and I can't confirm that. Kodi does not run well inside a wayland session. You can try to login to a gbm session from display manager.

ok, I'll try that, thanks

so, I tried it again with the kernel 6.1.43 and with the instructions from the howto. That resulted in the scrambled picture when opening kodi. (see above post) Then I built mpp, rga, ffmpeg_rockchip and kodi new. After a restart I could not open kodi as it complained about the missing fbdev module. Then I build drm-package and the mesa driver again. Then kodi opened again only to give the following errors when opening a movie:

 

2024-05-06 09:43:53.882 T:6596     info <general>: Creating InputStream
2024-05-06 09:43:53.916 T:6596     info <general>: Creating Demuxer
2024-05-06 09:43:53.990 T:6596     info <general>: Opening stream: 0 source: 256
2024-05-06 09:43:53.990 T:6596     info <general>: Creating video codec with codec id: 173
2024-05-06 09:43:53.990 T:6596     info <general>: CDVDVideoCodecDRMPRIME::Open - using decoder Rockchip MPP (Media Process Platform) HEVC decoder
2024-05-06 09:43:53.991 T:6596     info <general>: Creating video thread
2024-05-06 09:43:53.991 T:6600     info <general>: running thread: video_thread
2024-05-06 09:43:53.992 T:6596     info <general>: Opening stream: 1 source: 256
2024-05-06 09:43:53.992 T:6596     info <general>: Finding audio codec for: 86060
2024-05-06 09:43:53.992 T:6596     info <general>: CDVDAudioCodecFFmpeg::Open() Successful opened audio decoder truehd
2024-05-06 09:43:53.992 T:6596     info <general>: OpenStream: Allowing max Out-Of-Sync Value of 10 ms
2024-05-06 09:43:53.992 T:6596     info <general>: Creating audio thread
2024-05-06 09:43:53.992 T:6601     info <general>: running thread: CVideoPlayerAudio::Process()
2024-05-06 09:43:53.992 T:6596     info <general>: Opening stream: 9 source: 256
2024-05-06 09:43:54.003 T:6601     info <general>: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86060, channels: 8, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through)
2024-05-06 09:43:54.032 T:1329    error <general>: CEGLImage::SupportsFormat - format not supported: YU10
2024-05-06 09:43:54.033 T:1329     info <general>: GLES: Selecting single pass rendering
2024-05-06 09:43:54.033 T:1329     info <general>: GLES: Selecting YUV 2 RGB shader
2024-05-06 09:43:54.033 T:1329    error <general>: CBaseRenderer::GetShaderFormat - unsupported format 179
2024-05-06 09:43:54.033 T:1329    error <general>: GLES: BaseYUV2RGBGLSLShader - unsupported format none
2024-05-06 09:43:54.034 T:1674     info <general>: Skipped 1 duplicate messages..

 

So this means, that the original howto's for Rock 5b do not work anymore. And I did not find any working or reproducible collection of steps needed to get kodi reliably working with hw acceleration. This is quite a nightmare. I have this thing for over a year now and i am not able to use it. 

Edited May 6, 20242 yr by peter.eismann

@peter.eismannYou are using EGL as render method, which will only support NV12 format.  You can try direct-to-plane.

@amazingfateI finally made some progress. I've got a working 6.1.43 kernel with Ubuntu noble and the newest versions of Kodi and Inputstream adaptive. I have used the vendor-boogie-panthor configuration for armbian and added my IR Receiver settings. Unfortunately with Netflix the WivedineCDM lib does not work as the patches for glibc6 are missing. I know there is a patched version in your PPA, but since I use noble instead of jammy I was wondering what I need to do to build a patched libc6 myself. Do you remember how you built it? (glibc=1:2.35-0ubuntu3.4+2widevine)

Edited May 13, 20242 yr by peter.eismann

@peter.eismann I added patches to glibc: https://launchpad.net/~liujianfeng1994/+archive/ubuntu/rockchip-multimedia/+sourcefiles/glibc/1:2.35-0ubuntu3.4+2widevine/glibc_2.35-0ubuntu3.4+2widevine.debian.tar.xz

But it seems that this patch is no longer needed with newer glibc: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/widevine

that did it, it works now and I don't have that green pricture anymore. Thanks a lot. 

Hello,
I am trying to run Kodi application in linux using `sudo apt install kodi` on an rk3588-based board using rockchip legacy kernel 5.10 but, somehow I am not getting Audio Passthrough in Kodi.
hdmi sound works on i2s5_8ch controller, From a lot of research I got some hint that If kodi gets m_deviceType - AE_DEV_HDMI and m_dataFormats - AE_FMT_RAW then only Audio Passthorugh support will be shown in Kodi.

I have also tried to stop Pulse audio, but still it didn't work.
Is there any steps I am missing to do ?
 

2025-03-04 18:40:38.274 T:6805  warning <general>: Pulseaudio module module-allow-passthrough not loaded - opening PT devices might fail
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>: Found 1 Lists of Devices
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>: Enumerated PULSE devices:
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:     Device 1
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_deviceName      : Default
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_displayName     : Default
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_displayNameExtra: Default Output Device (PULSEAUDIO)
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_deviceType      : AE_DEVTYPE_PCM
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_channels        : FL, FR
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_sampleRates     : 5512,8000,11025,16000,22050,32000,44100,48000,64000,88200,96000,176400,192000,384000
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_dataFormats     : AE_FMT_U8,AE_FMT_S16NE,AE_FMT_S24NE3,AE_FMT_S24NE4,AE_FMT_S32NE,AE_FMT_FLOAT
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_streamTypes     : No passthrough capabilities
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:     Device 2
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_deviceName      : alsa_output.platform-dp0-sound.stereo-fallback
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_displayName     : Built-in Audio Stereo
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_displayNameExtra: Analog Output (PULSEAUDIO)
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_deviceType      : AE_DEVTYPE_PCM
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_channels        : FL, FR
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_sampleRates     : 5512,8000,11025,16000,22050,32000,44100,48000,64000,88200,96000,176400,192000,384000
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_dataFormats     : AE_FMT_U8,AE_FMT_S16NE,AE_FMT_S24NE3,AE_FMT_S24NE4,AE_FMT_S32NE,AE_FMT_FLOAT
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_streamTypes     : No passthrough capabilities
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:     Device 3
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_deviceName      : alsa_output.platform-dp1-sound.stereo-fallback
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_displayName     : Built-in Audio Stereo
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_displayNameExtra: Analog Output (PULSEAUDIO)
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_deviceType      : AE_DEVTYPE_PCM
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_channels        : FL, FR
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_sampleRates     : 5512,8000,11025,16000,22050,32000,44100,48000,64000,88200,96000,176400,192000,384000
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_dataFormats     : AE_FMT_U8,AE_FMT_S16NE,AE_FMT_S24NE3,AE_FMT_S24NE4,AE_FMT_S32NE,AE_FMT_FLOAT
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_streamTypes     : No passthrough capabilities
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:     Device 4
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_deviceName      : alsa_output.platform-es8388-sound.HiFi__hw_rockchipes8388__sink
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_displayName     : Built-in Audio Headphones + Speaker
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_displayNameExtra: Speaker (PULSEAUDIO)
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_deviceType      : AE_DEVTYPE_PCM
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_channels        : FL, FR
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_sampleRates     : 5512,8000,11025,16000,22050,32000,44100,48000,64000,88200,96000,176400,192000,384000
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_dataFormats     : AE_FMT_U8,AE_FMT_S16NE,AE_FMT_S24NE3,AE_FMT_S24NE4,AE_FMT_S32NE,AE_FMT_FLOAT
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_streamTypes     : No passthrough capabilities
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:     Device 5
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_deviceName      : alsa_output.platform-hdmi1-sound.HDMI__hw_rockchiphdmi1__sink
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_displayName     : Built-in Audio HDMI/Display Port 2 Stereo
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_displayNameExtra: HDMI/Display Port 2 Stereo (PULSEAUDIO)
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_deviceType      : AE_DEVTYPE_PCM
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_channels        : FL, FR
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_sampleRates     : 5512,8000,11025,16000,22050,32000,44100,48000,64000,88200,96000,176400,192000,384000
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_dataFormats     : AE_FMT_U8,AE_FMT_S16NE,AE_FMT_S24NE3,AE_FMT_S24NE4,AE_FMT_S32NE,AE_FMT_FLOAT
2025-03-04 18:40:38.276 T:6805     info <general>:         m_streamTypes     : No passthrough capabilities
2025-03-04 18:40:38.277 T:6806     info <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink