On 20/03/2021 13:12, Anssi Saari wrote:
> 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.
>
The issue is whether or not Webm/Vorbis encoding can utilise hardware
acceleration. I might just get one and try it out

I am sure H264 can, which is my other standard

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