You guys gotta try this login manager script its really awesome.
[Guide] 🖥️ Arch Linux for Single-Board Computers!
acu -y install mesa-panvk-git
sudo pacman -S vulkan-tools
vulkaninfo
sudo pacman -S mesa
sudo pacman -S inxi mesa-utils
inxi -G
sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack && sudo pacman -Syyu
acu install rate-mirrors-bin
rate-mirrors arch
rate-mirrors --allow-root --protocol https arch | grep -v '^#' | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
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kwankiu/ rtl8851bu / Linux Driver for USB WiFi Adapters that are based on the RTL8831BU and RTL8851BU Chipsets
acu install rtl8852be-dkms-git
There are a lot of moving parts when it comes to playing videos with hardware acceleration: kernel version, overlay, panthor or panfrost, ffmpeg, mesa, mpp and browser/media player version, X11 or Wayland etc… Some addons may be not mainline but compiled with patches.
There is a good, panfrost based, how-to in another thread by boogiepop. But it is from 2023, a lot may have changed since. Does anyone know a good, a bit more up to date how-to out there somewhere that could help making this work?
Cheers
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Supposdly the ‘all great framework of all times’ armbian has it updated. So you might wanna try armbian.
But yeah we gotta wait for Joshuas return to do an overall fix on things.
If you are like me and use the sbc as media center, there is a new maintained project from kde plasma called plasma-bigscreen. The point of it is, it gives a tv and remote friendly ui to navigate the DE.
I made it work with alarm and is avalaible in agrrepo : https://github.com/hbiyik/agrrepo
Package name is: plasma-bigscreen-git
So far i really enjoyed it, somehow too much android vibes but nice overall
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Huhuuhh enjoying netflix disney+ and others without widevine… huhuhh (kidding) Looks very interesting since no one wants to get the official google chromecast that gets updated by them / at least they can the this newer project.
Hi Boogiepop,
I had a look at your github repo, thank you for this work!
Which kernel is recommended in order to run mpp modified stuff (firefox or mpv)? Also, does mpp need panfrost, panthor or maybe the closed driver (I can see the libmali valhall g610 driver in the repo)?
Would gnome wayland work?
Mpp requires downstream bsp kernel. Mainline linux uses another api called v4l2 requests.
To render stuff you need a proper mesa, mainline mesa works fine with panthor kernel driver.
Panthor kernel driver is backported to bsp kernel since 1 or 2 years ago.
I dont think you anyone needs to run blob drivers anymore, unless he is after something specific and knows what he is doing. Blobs dont have GL (only gles), and kills all the linux pleasure.
You can check the wiki of nyanmisakas ffmpeg fork for details https://github.com/nyanmisaka/ffmpeg-rockchip/wiki/Rendering
Not related but ofc wayland gnome or whaever works. Such topics are related to gpu (mpp is related to vpu) and panthor is in quite a good shape. See few post above about plasma bigscreen, it is running over wayland.
mpv-mpp actually works 
I could find mpv-mpp and install it from the boogie repo:
pacman -Ss mpv-mpp
boogie/mpv-mpp 1:0.40.0-6 [installed: 1:0.40.0-5]
a free, open source, and cross-platform media playerThere are some error messages on start, but the playback seems fine, and the hardware decode is propably working, based on cpu use.
mpv --profile=fast --hwdec=rkmpp someporn_4k.mp4
mpp[4712]: mpp_platform: client 12 driver is not ready!
● Video --vid=1 --vlang=eng (h264 3840x2160 29.97 fps) [default]
● Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (aac 2ch 44100 Hz 196 kbps) [default]
mpp[4712]: mpp_info: mpp version: ac16b2c6 author: Yanjun Liao 2025-07-31 fix[h264e_api_v2]: Fix bit_real calc in skip mode
[ffmpeg/video] h264_rkmpp: An invalid frame was output by a decoder. This is a bug, please report it.
Error while decoding frame (hardware decoding)!
Using hardware decoding (rkmpp).
AO: [pipewire] 44100Hz stereo 2ch floatp
VO: [gpu] 3840x2160 drm_prime[nv12]
AV: 00:00:21 / 00:48:27 (1%) A-V: 0.000 Cache: 74s/146MB
Exiting... (Quit)How do I get hold of firefox-mpp though? I can see it in the repo (/hbiyik/agrrepo/mpp/firefox-mpp) when browsing, but I can see only a PKGBUILD file there. Pacman won’t find it, ‘pacman -Ss firefox-mpp’ will return nothing.
This is the relevant part in my pacman.conf, does it look ok?
...
[boogie]
SigLevel = Never
Server = https://github.com/hbiyik/agrrepo/releases/download/alarm-$archfirefox-mpp no more builds due to recent updates in firefox codebase, firefox guys changed shit loads of things in video decoding side so i did not rebase the mpp patchset cos it would take so much time to rebase even rewrite the patchset.
same is true for for sunshine-mpp
And now to make it worse these ones that do stuff are likely loosing their browser… https://www.theverge.com/news/758218/perplexity-google-chrome-bid-unsolicited-offer
Things are not looking good for linux…
If firefox (and sunshine) are problematic, is there any alternative? Firefox was quite reliable on my arch x64, therefore it was my first choice on arm too.
How about chromium? Is there an mpp git out there?
I have a reverted the firefox-mpp package to a slightly older version 139.x
You can install with pacman now
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This version installs fine. Thank you for reverting.
The mpp acceleration, based on apparent cpu use in btop, seems to be working. Yet, the playback is not very smooth, especially at higher resolutions. Is there anything I could do to improve this? Maybe is this some sort or power save mode, e.g. mpp processor throttled? (I saw something similar on x86 when the amd gpu stuck in some power save mode, and playback was choppy)
firefox time to time sucks on rendering on wayland. You can try to force X11 with
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 firefox
and run it either under xwayland if you are under wayland or native X if no wayland is involved. I experinced that it improves firefox rendering performance a lot.
Also now sunshine-mpp is building again, and can be installed via pacman. Sunshine performance can be improved a lot, but currently i only use it for remote desktop purposes and it saves the day for me.
you can verify if the windowing is switched to X by checking about:support page in firefox. (somewhere in the table should show xwayland…)
After a video is played about:support should also list the hardware accelerated codecs.
I tried xwayland with the MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 parameter. I could see “xwayland” at “Window Protocol” in about:support. (xeyes showed xwayland too). As far as the video playback smoothness is concerned, I do not see a huge difference between wayland and xwayland (maybe native x11 would be better).
Even the low resolution youtube videos (e.g. 480p) are not total smooth. Neither those small icon clips when you hoover the mouse over them. But I am quite convinced the hardware acceleration is working because of the low cpu loads I can see.
There are some errors reported in the about:support, but they may not be relevant:
Failure Log
|(#0) Error|true: ERROR|
|---|---|
|(#1) Error|trueV4L2 device /dev/video2 does not support M2M modes|
|(#2) Error|true: ERROR|
|(#3) Error|trueV4L2 device /dev/video1 does not support M2M modes|
|(#4) Error|true: ERROR|
|(#5) Error|trueV4L2 device /dev/video-enc0 failed to query capabilities|
|(#6) Error|true: ERROR|
|(#7) Error|trueV4L2 device /dev/video-dec0 failed to query capabilities|
|(#8) Error|true: ERROR|
|(#9) Error|trueV4L2 device /dev/video0 does not support M2M modes|
mpv playback is very smooth though.
Dont mind abou those errors, they are fine and unrelated.
Can you open a youtube video right click and open stats for nerds and monitor dropped frames. And share the same link so that i can try. I get 0 frames dropped in 4k vids.
ok nevermind, i reproduced the problem, firefox is choppy, most likely a firefox issue somewhere.