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UltraStar-Deluxe / Play

Free and open source singing game with song editor for desktop, mobile, and smart TV
https://ultrastar-play.com
MIT License
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UltraStar on Raspberry Pi (aka. RasPi, RPi) #356

Closed Tirgatt closed 1 year ago

Tirgatt commented 1 year ago

I was trying to get UltraStar to work on a Raspberry Pi 4 (8GB).

I started by trying to run UltraStar Play on Raspbian with the help of Box64. A window also opens very briefly, but it collapses immediately.

The second attempt looked more promising: I used a snap from UltraStar Worldparty on Raspbian for this. Unfortunately, UltraStar Worldparty hung up very quickly and 4K videos lagged hard, even though the Raspberry Pi is advertised with 4K support. I suspect that this is not necessarily due to the Raspberry Pi, but to the software, since even my high-end gaming laptop UltraStar Deluxe could not play 4K videos smoothly - but UltraStar Play had no problems.

On my last attempt I installed LineageOS from KonstaKANG on the Raspberry Pi and installed the Android version of UltraStar Play. The problem here is that hardware video decoding is not supported. Accordingly, the videos cannot be played back. Or I don't know how to get it work.

I'm pretty sure UltraStar will run on the Raspberry Pi. Maybe not with a super performance, but acceptable.

So I would be very happy to see a version of UltraStar Play optimized for the Raspberry Pi. (preferably as an ISO file)

achimmihca commented 1 year ago

installed LineageOS from KonstaKANG on the Raspberry Pi and installed the Android version of UltraStar Play

Nice that you got this working! However, in my opinion this setup is out of scope to be supported officially.

The problem here is that hardware video decoding is not supported.

I don't think there is much we could do to fix this.

I would be very happy to see a version of UltraStar Play optimized for the Raspberry Pi

Sadly, Unity does not compile to Rasperry Pi.

Nice that the Android build of USPlay works with your setup. However, I don't know how we should optimize this for Rasperry Pi and as I said, it is out of scope in my opinion.

achimmihca commented 1 year ago

The problem here is that hardware video decoding is not supported.

You could try webm/vp8 encoded video files. These have best cross platform support in Unity. I think Unity will fallback to software rendering for webm/vp8 if needed.

Tirgatt commented 1 year ago

Works for me. Nice, thank you!