Hardware acceleration on Pi 3?

shivasiddharth / Stremio-RaspberryPi

Installer for Stremio on Raspberry Pi

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Hardware acceleration on Pi 3? #36

Closed dialmove closed 2 years ago

dialmove commented 2 years ago

I installed this version on a Raspberry Pi 3 with the latest Raspberry Pi OS, and it runs, but hardware acceleration is disabled so it plays videos at just a couple frames per second.

Is there a way to compile it with hardware acceleration enabled on the Pi 3?

shivasiddharth commented 2 years ago

Pi 3 is not great for running Stremio. If you want to try the previous build which had ffmpeg, try this https://github.com/shivasiddharth/Stremio-RaspberryPi/tree/4cfccbdce9a70eff3cf36a398c0e3d6046e11546 Download the Repo as a zip, rename the folder and start from https://github.com/shivasiddharth/Stremio-RaspberryPi/tree/4cfccbdce9a70eff3cf36a398c0e3d6046e11546#make-the-scripts-executable

dialmove commented 2 years ago

For those who find this thread and want to try, I managed to install it and make it work at a reasonable framerate for 480 and 720p videos following these steps:

Install buster version of Raspberry OS (not the latest bullseye, which complains of qt5-default package being removed)
Add a symbolic link to chromium-browser (installed browser is named just chromium, and it doesn't find it)
Follow the steps at How To Enable Hardware Acceleration In Chromium On Raspberry Pi OS or at Smooth YouTube 1080p in Chromium (Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+)