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 {{note|The old vendor U-Boot 2017.09 did not leave enough room between the kernel and initrd, causing recent kernels to overwrite the beginning of the initrd. This can be fixed by increasing <code>ramdisk_addr_r</code> in the U-Boot console, or using upstream U-Boot. }}
+== Video decoding ==
+MPV has support for the rockchip hardware decoder, it is used by default when playing a file.
+Without this decoder videos will likely stutter during playing.
+To use his for example in [https://kodi.tv/ kodi], add the following configuration in <code>.kodi/userdata/playercorefactory.xml</code>
+<syntaxHighlight lang=xml>
+<playercorefactory>
+        <players>
+                <player name="MPV" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
+                        <filename>mpv</filename>
+                        <args>--fs=yes "{1}"</args>
+                        <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
+                </player>
+        </players>
+        <rules action="prepend">
+                <rule video="true" player="MPV"/>
+        </rules>
+</playercorefactory>
+</syntaxHighlight>
+When using kodi it is also recommend to use kodi-wayland rather than the x11 variant to reduce the CPU usage. Mic92 has an [https://github.com/Mic92/dotfiles/blob/d457b53a1c032b84147113b8cd1be1383facd68e/nixos/rock/modules/kodi.nix#L22 example configuration].
 == Resources ==
 * [https://www.pine64.org/devices/single-board-computers/rock64/ Official product page]