About how to play video with hardware video decode on RPi3 and a Wayland desktop environment.

Mostly a memo rather than a tutorial. Not finished due to upstream kernel lack support for H616. I actually got ArchLinux rootfs work, but my motivation gone because no video output.

I've experienced some frustrating moments when trying to figure out how to tweak GNOME's(and related softwares') functions. Here is a sheet of notes.

Test page for nutshell

This page requires javascript. And yeah, this site can work without javascript.

I happend to own one board produced by SuperMicro. It has BMC that can perform out-of-band operations. But the feature requires a license key. It looks like people have already found out how to generate the keys.

I built myself a dedicated server. I choose to use Proxmox VE to manage all the stuff. I created an Arch container to have a test drive, but some manual changes were required.

For some reason I want to use an eGPU with my laptop. The eGPU is an RTX 2080TI, connected to my computer through a thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosure. There was a few issues preventing me from using the eGPU smoothly.