Banana Pi BPI-M2 A31S runs Ubuntu 14.04.2 which supports video 1080p HW decode
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Demonstrates 1080p hardware video decoding on a Banana Pi A31S running Ubuntu.
Linked by 2 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including armbian.com, root.cz.