RPi4 + Kodi and performance

Hi, question might have been asked, but I can not find an answer easy (especially for my use case).

I have very bad video performance on RPi4 + Debian + Kodi 18.9 IT is as if the video acceleration is not working. TBH I did not check if /dev/dri exists and has the right permissions, but before I do that can you share your experience and give me some idea where to start.

I found so far only BS with help of google and not exactly related to RPi4

thank you in advance

BR

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Deloptes
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Not realy any help but my Pi3B+ running OSMC was perfect My Pi4B which is raspberrypios + kodi also plays without any issues.

Stock debian is probably missing some proprietary broadcom blobs

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alister

Yes. All I know is that you only get hardware acceleration with the official RPi / Broadcom stack. Kodi on RaspiOS 32-bit should be good, I think, or else the specialised Kodi image LibreElec as linked from

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But I never tried it so this is definitely not expert advice.

(Not 64-bit RaspiOS because that's in beta and last I checked video accel was one thing not working, or not well.)

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A. Dumas

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Great! Thank you very much!

Can I put one of these mentioned above on a NFS root, or there are issues to expect? I prefer to run the RPi4 diskless.

thank you again in advance

BR

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Deloptes

LibreElec worked perfectly well and fast even on a RPi2, on a Pi4 it is working even better here at my home, and with the advantage of built-in h265 decoding through the graphics chip, so it's definitely well worth a try.

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Cant see any reason why not

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alister

Just for the record: Unfortunately the image assumes there is SD card with squashfs that it wants to mount and fails if I put the files on the NFS. Do you know where exactly this is located (what is the initrd)?

thanks in advance

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Deloptes

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