Hi,

 

Tried searching on docs.armbian.com and the forums but got more confused than anything else.

 

I just installed legacy armbian on my xu4 and the only thing missing is proper video decoding ( vlc won't show any image and mplayer complains that my configuration is too slow ).

 

Could somebody point me to a tutorial on how to enable hardware ( mali t628 ) video decoding ?

 

Thanks for your help !

I don't know if the driver is activated on kernel side. But if it is, this should be your starting point (otherwise, it has to be enabled in kernel by yourself during build process).

 

https://developer.arm.com/products/software/mali-drivers/user-space

 

I don't have any tutorial, but I would appreciate if you write one when you got it working.. 

I'm in the process of compiling the driver against current kernel version.

 

Currently stuck though on "Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 0 modules make[1]: Leaving directory"

 

Make does not produce error but the driver does not get built..

 

I'll keep looking for a solution for a while..

 

If somebody has a guess

Mali kernel drivers should be present and enabled already in both kernel branches used in Armbian.

lsmod didn't list any loaded mali related modules afaik on my system.

 

How can I check it properly ?

 

 

 

8 minutes ago, krpt said:

lsmod didn't list any loaded mali related modules afaik on my system.

For the 3.10.x kernel it's built-in, so you could check it with "ls /dev/mali*" and checking dmesg for anything Mali related.