[sergiodev]

Hello,

I'm trying to get Kodi to use hardware accelerated video decoding on my Orange PI PC+. I know that it's possible because it works great on LibreELEC, but I want to achieve the same on Armbian.

So far I've recompiled ffmpeg with the v4l2_request patches to get HW acceleration support. Running "ffmpeg -hwaccels" outputs vdpau, vaapi, and drm. But the problem is that Kodi does not show any option to use DRM PRIME. After some time searching for an answer I found that Kodi won't show this option unless it's compiled with HAS_GLES, and the PPA version appears to have been compiled without it.

Is that true or I'm wrong? If so, why?

I was hoping to just get Kodi to use the patched ffmpeg by updating the FFmpeg shared libraries used by it (as I was told on the Armbian forums), but it doesn't seem like this would work.

[sergiodev]

It looks like the PPA does not provide actual ARM binaries for Kodi (kodi-bin package). I guess this question should be addressed to Debian then.

[izprtxqkft]

not to mention that ppa is for ubuntu and not debian which negates your use case anyway

[jjd-uk]

Yes for ARM builds it's up to the distro maintainers to provide these.

[sergiodev]

Yes for ARM builds it's up to the distro maintainers to provide these.

Question: Can you guys turn HAS_GLES into a runtime flag so that Debian builds work both with and without it?

[izprtxqkft]

as i understand it, gles is something its compiled with or without not just a flag, you can see where i get that notion from here - https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=372055

you can also see the option for gl or gles in the build readme - https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...build-kodi

and youre probably barking up the wrong tree since team-kodi doesnt compile debian release packages, debian does it from the source