On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 07:58:02 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 15/12/17 22:22, druck wrote:
>> On 15/12/2017 11:09, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> Need one of these and it occurs  that a PI 3 plus SD card, DVB s2 usb
>>> dongle, remote mouse and keyboard, case & PSU would actually allow me
>>> to drive the HDMI TV port with sound and video,and be happy to access
>>> my network media stores via the onboard ethernet.
>>>
>>> I'd use Ubuntu MATE to underpin it...kaffiene for choice.. looks like
>>> kaffiene is in that distro
>>
>> If you are doing anything with HD video, I'd stick to Raspbian, as the
>> video acceleration is better than Ubuntu. (Unless things have changed
>> in the last 12 months).
>>
>> ---druck
>>
> Thats ood, since Ubuntu is based on Debian...

...but the hardware-specific code used for video acceleration will be in
Raspbian-specific drivers. These  may never get back-ported to Debian
since they will be quite hardware-specific, i.e. useless on anything not
using Broadcom chips that include their GPU


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