On 16/12/17 09:16, Kiwi User wrote:
> 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
>
>
yebbut ubuntu for the pi  is still based on debian for the pi.


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