On 17/03/2021 16:17, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> I did this already for audio, and now am looking to do it for video as
> well.
>
> What I  want it to do is
> - connect to the network with wifi
> - have a web server whose interface with a laptop or a smartphone
> becomes the 'remote'
> - can play H264 /AAC encoded video at full frame rate up to HD
> - can play webm/vorbis encoded live TV at full frame rate and possibly HD.
>
> I am really looking for feedback on how powerful the thing needs to be
> to do this - a pi zero W was well OK for just audio.
>
I gave up on a rpi4. It should work but good HD video depends on
hardware acceleration and Raspbian distro software compatibility with
acceleration was poor when I tried (i.e. Chrome and VLC didn't support
it fully)

If you just want media try KODI.

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