I made a post.
No. I added some merge request patches that not in mainline yet. Without that most apps will not work on g31 and g52
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For those of you who aren’t fully immersed in the google ecosystem and its consequences, and who’d like some news from another horizon. The same person who implemented v4l2m2m in firefox is working on v4l2 stateless for h265. Which is a good thing if pi finally releases hardware acceleration for the av1 format.
For better results the nightly version has the webgpu with vulkan activated and to have a better fluidity in video playback under wayland :
widget.wayland.vsync.enabled false
And an user agent switcher to get rid of the delay in playing youtube videos, which can otherwise take several seconds. This behavior is worthy of a large company that has always wanted the best for its consumers by voluntarily blocking everything… Microsoft.
July 1st was the big day for Manifest V3. enjoy!
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Is this a purpose build Firefox? Is there a link to download? Firefox-140.0.2 does not seem to have vpu hw acceleration on Opi5-Plus.
Edit:
@Darksky, @junari , @Sam_Fisher,
Manjaro-opi5plus-xfce-linux-6.15.3-1 on Wayland Session using labwc compositor.
With the latest system update and gstreamer-1.26.3, clapper video player now can stream most of the Youtube 1080p/60fps with vpu hw acceleration.
On GT King Pro clapper will freeze with 60 fps Youtube videos.
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I think we misdiagnose the “frame drop” issues that we face with youtube (or any other website) on wayland. That frame drop does not happen if you switch your screen server to X11, no matter the codec being used. It happens only under wayland. That has been my experience with my Pi5 so far. Multimedia performance under X11 is “always” so much better. I have said it before, the instrinsic and unchangeable “vsync” of wayland is what is hurting us here.
PS: By the way, if you are using a third party player and yt-dlp to watch content, if the playback is struggling (unlike in a web browser), it is highly likely the stream that is selected is an “hdr” one. There is no way to block hdr streams, youtube automatically detects if your display supports it or not “only if you are playing in a browser”.
You can try this with mpv:
# 10-bit/HDR decoding is broken without this
vf-add=scale_rkrga=force_yuv=auto
It does not work with when “–hwdec=v4l2request”. It works when “–hwdec=rkmpp”. Most likely will not work with mainline kernel.
339 packages synced today to unstable. Arch-arm has had their mirrors frozen for 4 days so I really do not know what all they have been working on.
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Did you managed to resolve your color issue on Opi5-Plus?
Unfortunately, still did not resolve this. I did manage to boot from the SD the newest version - Manjaro-ARM-kde-plasma-opi5-plus-20250630 and the colors there are working fine. So it seems like the problem happened during one of the updates and something in my installation is messed up but not sure where. I am hoping to avoid reinstall as the setup is otherwise working very well and I am not sure if I will be able to get it to this point.
What happen if you upgrade your new installation on SD card? Does it also result in color distortion?
Your previous installation is it on SD or NVMe?
Edit: Opi5-Plus-KDE upgraded successfully to KDE-Plasma-6.4.2 and sudo 1.9.17.p1-1.
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Today’s sync with arch-arm had 367 packages.
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Upgrading a new installation seemed to work ok and still correct colors. My original install is on EMMC. So something must have happened in the past at some point to corrupt my install. Now will need to figure out if I can fix that or somehow get a new install all set up like my existing one.
Could it be the u-boot loader on the SPI/EMMC?