HQPlayer Embedded Discussion

erekola · July 6, 2025, 6:05am

This has to be a BIOS settings issue. You need to ensure your NVIDIA GPU is set as the primary.

Moy · July 6, 2025, 6:08am

Yeah, please check.

Dlwr32722 · July 6, 2025, 6:55am

Yeah, I did check the BIOS, and I didn’t find many items related to the graphics card.
And before installing Ubuntu, the graphics card was running on Windows 11 with the same settings, so I’m not sure this is the issue.

It seems like I’ve worked enough with the current motherboard, so probably it’s time to try with another brand’s board.

Thank you all for your dedicated help! =))

erekola · July 6, 2025, 7:14am

I’ve never seen anything like this problem. Hope you get it fixed, especially after all the effort you’ve put in!

jussi_laako · July 6, 2025, 10:33pm

ASUS and ASRock should be fine. My i9-14900K is running on this miniITX board. With 64 GB of DDR5-6400 CL32 from G.Skill. (280mm BeQuiet AIO cooler, which is not enough to keep it from thermal throttling in some cases)

GPU is RTX A4500.

Chunhao_Lee · July 7, 2025, 12:56am

Just noticed you’re using version 575.57.08 on kernel 6.15.4. It’s incompatible. I use official version 570.169 on kernel 6.15.4 with no problems.

Dlwr32722 · July 7, 2025, 1:47am

Damn! So, that may be the reason.
May I ask how to install 570.169?

Dlwr32722 · July 7, 2025, 1:53am

Thanks, Jussi!
I’m considering ASRock Z790 Steel Legend WiFi.
The one you’re using is no longer available where I live.
After trying what Chunhao suggested, I’ll try the ASRock if it doesn’t work.

Chunhao_Lee · July 7, 2025, 2:28am

I’m an old school guy. I don’t like to use in-tree distro’s dkms module. I always download the driver from nvidia website directly:

Build it locally. Before you build the driver you have to blacklist the nouveau driver:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo reboot
sudo apt install build-essential
sudo echo "blacklist nouveau" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
sudo update-initramfs -u
sudo reboot

Then execute the nvidia driver installer:

sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-570.169.run

Dlwr32722 · July 7, 2025, 3:14am

Chunhao_Lee:

Build it locally. Before you build the driver you have to blacklist the nouveau driver:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo reboot
sudo apt install build-essential
sudo echo "blacklist nouveau" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
sudo update-initramfs -u
sudo reboot
Then execute the nvidia driver installer:
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-570.169.run

Thank you for the detailed procedure!
I’ll install Fedora once again and try it in the evening.

Chunhao_Lee · July 7, 2025, 3:54am

Oops I forgot you’re using Fedora. The above CLI needs to be changed to rpm-related commands and packages… sorry about that.

Stefano_Antonelli · July 7, 2025, 5:46am

@jussi_laako
hi Jussi, last Embedded version 5.13.2 introduced a little glitch in gapless, it seems there is a very short overlapping between the tracks and this make gapless not as fluid as it was since previous version 5.13.0 … quote annoing.

To be sure I rolled back to 5.13.0 and the issue isn’t there.

It also happens that HQPe stops playing before the actual end of the album, last time it stopped on track 20 of 26.

FYI I’m running HQP Embedded on Ubuntu 24.04 on Intel i7 14700 and using JPlay for iOS (HQPlayer API) with Minimserver.

thanks

Dlwr32722 · July 7, 2025, 7:42am

It would be hard for me to convert the commands to Fedora’s, so I’ll try it on Ubuntu Server and see if it works.

Moy · July 7, 2025, 10:24am

Sorry missed that! Is Same embedded computer,
But you get two inputs as @jussi_laako mentioned above

With Embedded you get two, one with Rygel logo (UPnP) and another with HQPlayer logo (native HQPlayer).

jussi_laako · July 7, 2025, 10:55am

With the instructions I gave you get the official Nvidia’s driver straight from Nvidia’s CUDA package repository… This ensures it is up to date and compatible with CUDA.

Note that 570 is old version and will soon stop working with HQPlayer. Currently drivers are 575 series. Please also use the Nvidia’s new fully open source driver, not the legacy semi-binary one. This is Nvidia’s recommendation. The legacy one is becoming obsolete and will be discontinued.

Dlwr32722 · July 7, 2025, 11:09am

I’ve just finished flashing Ubuntu 24.04.2 server (I overwrote the flash drive with the Desktop version), and I realized the kernel version would be different from what was displayed in the photo I took with Fedora 41.

I think I should purchase the ASRock motherboard and work on that one.
Thanks, though,

PS. And I’ve just ordered it!
Really hope it works this time.
Will arrive in two days.

Moy · July 8, 2025, 9:35am

New version hqplayerd_5.14.0-40intel_amd64.deb 2025-07-08 00:04 164M

Try! Hopefully the bug it’s fixed!

Leonid_Bachevich · July 8, 2025, 9:40am

Can anyone confirm that WiiM ultra usb out feature is hqplayer compatible?

erekola · July 8, 2025, 6:53pm

It should contain NAA for you to benefit.

Leonid_Bachevich · July 8, 2025, 7:00pm

If any WiiM model had NAA streamer, usb output would not be necessary, data would be sent via tcp/ip.
USB connection is a device to device, and not a network connection.

Also I would like to ask if anyone has some feedback about soundblaster Z SE with tosslink input, working as a bridge to hqplayer embedded on Linux.