Odroid C4/HC4 | Cannot enable HW acceleration in Kodi

[aquada]

I have searched the existing open and closed issues - Yes

Required Information

-DietPi version | cat /boot/dietpi/.version

G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=9 G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=14 G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=2 G_GITBRANCH='master' G_GITOWNER='MichaIng' G_LIVE_PATCH_STATUS[0]='applied'

Distro version | echo $G_DISTRO_NAME $G_RASPBIANbookworm

Kernel version | uname --allLinux DietPi 6.12.34-current-meson64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 19 13:32:38 UTC 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux

Architecture | dpkg --print-architecturearm64

SBC model | echo $G_HW_MODEL_NAME or (EG: RPi3)Odroid HC4 (aarch64)

Power supply used | (EG: 5V 1A RAVpower)15v 4A

SD card used | (EG: SanDisk ultra)Sandisk Ultra

Additional Information (if applicable)

Software title | (EG: Nextcloud)Kodi

Was the software title installed freshly or updated/migrated?Copied .kodi from previous install

Can this issue be replicated on a fresh installation of DietPi?I have tried with a clean kodi profile and same problem ← If you sent a “dietpi-bugreport”, please paste the ID here →

Bug report ID | echo $G_HW_UUID

Steps to reproduce

Start Kodi

Check Settings > Playback > Video for HW acceleration

Expected behaviour

HW Acceleration should be an option

Actual behaviour

Playback is jittery on HD with panning scenes

HW Acc option not available

Extra details

I have been trying to resolve this after moving from Coreelec (no issues).

Testing with flatpak - smooth playback but had other problems

'this->recurse > 0' failed at ../src/pipewire/thread-loop.c:62 do_unlock() libva info: VA-API version 1.22.0 libva error: vaGetDriverNames() failed with operation failed

Coreelec works as expected.

Installed kodi from debian-multimedia - ended up with a dependency mess and gave up, uninstalled all included kodi.

Reinstalled kodi + installing VDPAU and VA drivers-all

Not running xorg and X not installed

[MichaIng]

I am currently busy with Debian Trixie testing and polishing. But next week, after DietPi v9.16 release, I will have some time to look again into SBC-specific issues.

Will test Kodi with my Odroid N2+, which should behave somewhat similar. Though Mali-G52 vs Mali-G31. Let's see ...