HQPlayer Embedded Discussion

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It is now temporarily available on that server.

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Thank you! Back up and running again as normal. Appreciate your help Jussi.

It’s a shame about the Cuda 13 Compatibility through, between 5.14 and 5.15 of HQPlayer.

As otherwise V100 been handing every combination i have thrown at it so far. I completely understand the need to keep up with the SDK.

Once again thank you.
Al

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Im sorry, obviously I meant HQPlayer OS.

Oh, meaning you can’t build hqplayer from sources if sdk is not familiar with the posix environment. And hqplayerd binary is not the same from the embedded version. You have to make your OS debian/ubuntu/fedora compatible so basically it will be embedded version with a minimal install.
Do you have ACPI disabled in grub with Hqplayer OS ?
My new box is giving me some annoying messages in DietPi

[  100.647417] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Failure creating named object [\_SB.PC00.PEG1.PEGP._DSM.USRG], AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20240827/dsfield-184)
[  100.647420] ACPI Error: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, CreateBufferField failure (20240827/dswload2-477)
[  100.647421] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PC00.PEG1.PEGP._DSM due to previous error (AE_ALREADY_EXISTS) (20240827/psparse-529)

In HQPlayer OS it does not. It can be also because of Nvidia drivers… and since HQPlayer OS does not support GPU, no errors are being shown.

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OK, I see. It is not technically feasible though…

No, HQPlayer OS has it’s own specific build environment. And Nvidia doesn’t support it, hence the two don’t work together.

There is no point in making HQPlayer OS compatible with any regular Linux distribution, because then you can as well just install such distribution and the already offered Embedded package on it. It would mean I would lose control over my own OS.

No, modern PC’s wouldn’t work without ACPI.

Buggy ACPI BIOS implementations are more rule than exception. The system may still end up being relatively stable as long as the bugs are not too bad. Linux kernel has some sanity checks for the ACPI information and that’s why it complains, depending on log levels.

Different kernels may also have different workarounds for some known ACPI issues.

Some motherboard manufacturers have better BIOS developers while some others don’t.

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Just to mention that here, too: I had bought the Tesla P100 (Pascal architecture) because I wanted to use sinc-MGa at DSD512 (with ASDM7EC-super). Since then, I also bought a new DAC, and on that DAC, sinc-MGa isn’t my favourite anymore. I had automatically assumed that the graphics card I used before (RTX 2060) wouldn’t work with CUDA 13, too, or else wouldn’t be up to the task of DSD512 with most filters. Now I actually looked and found that both assumptions were wrong. RTX 2060 is Turing architecture and thus still supported. While sinc-MGa doesn’t work at DSD512, most filters do, including the sinc-Lh I prefer with my main headphones (HEDD2).

So I’m back on the current version now without the need to buy a new PC. :slight_smile: And I must say it’s quite cool what is possible with a meagre i7-7700 + RTX2060.

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I used to run hqplayer on a i5-7600k with a GTX1080 and it was quite impressive.

The loss of support for older cards left me with the choice of don’t update hqplayer or build a new hqplayer machine. I ended up building a new machine.

I’m now using a 14900k and it does everything and more the previous build did and it doesn’t need the cuda offload.

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