Hello,

I managed to run OPi as a media player using OpenELEC (works charmingly fast - much much better than on RasPi), bun on Armbian (legacy kernel - 3.4.113) something went not too good

 

Firsty, I burn desktop Xenial image onto SD card, dropped into Orange, and everything worked fine besides sound via HDMI - even locally played MP3 files were stuttering, not mentioning Youtube in Chromium - CPU usage was in range of 30-40 percent. Sound in TV speakers were annoying- one second of music, long pause, repeated until I press stop button.

 

So I gave up with Xenial, write a Jessie server image (also legacy kernel), installed XFCE with all recommended packages (including PulseAudio), managed volume controls to switch to HDMI sound output, getting the same behavior

 

 

Anyone had a similar experiences about sound on Allwinner H3 devices?

Thanks in advance to all replies,

T.

 

Audio & video playing with mpv player should be fine, while there is no media / web acceleration within any web browser.