The Natural Philosopher  writes:

> On 17/03/2021 22:33, NY wrote:
>> So the gist of what I'm saying is "the Pi is fine for recording to TS files
>> and then serving them by SMB to another playing device (Windows), but using
>> the Pi as the actual video player is a bit dicey".
>
> That's perfectly plain and a good answer and thank you

NY seemed to cover only the case where HW acceleration is not used at
all. While I haven't tried to use a Pi as a media player recently, even
the original Pi worked fine as video player back almost a decade ago,
for SD MPEG2 and h.264 content. I remember the thing had trouble running
the XBMC (later KODI) GUI, but video and audio were fine. A quick Google
shows the acceleration even in the first model was good enough to handle
even 1080p content although only up to 1080p30.

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