On 22/04/17 16:16, Nick wrote:
> On 22/04/2017 13:51, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 22/04/17 12:22, D.M. Procida wrote:
>>> Would a Rapsberry Pi Zero with
>>> a
>>>
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>>> external
>>> USB DVD drive function as an adequate DVD player?
>>>
>>> If so, it could replace a much larger DVD player, that doesn't even have
>>> HDMI. Both Pi and DVD drive seem small and lightweight enough that they
>>> could just be discretely mounted behind the television.
>>>
>>> I have no need for a full-blown Pi-driven media centre, but it would be
>>> nice to be able to use it with a remote control - if not the one I
>>> already have with the (Sony) TV, then the tiny little ones I have left
>>> over from older Macintoshes.
>>>
>>> What do you recommend?
>>>
>>> Daniele
>>>
>> I think it should work, I've used USB2.0 drives for DVDs and they are
>> fast enough to get the data off and I THINK the Pi with something like
>> VLC is well fast enough to do a decent sized flicker free display.
>>
>
> Do you actually have VLC working on the Pi. I tried on a Pi 3 and it was
> rubbish, stuttered on full screen.
>

No, your experience trumps my guess.

> LibreELEC, on the other hand, gave very good performance on the Pi 3.
>
> I did ask a few weeks ago about this, on this group, but didn't get any
> resolution apart from a suggestion that VLC/Raspbian were not using the
> graphics chip properly.
>

yes. I remember you said that

>
>> Looks like HDMI is the default sound output too, so that should all Just
>> Work (TM).
>>
>>
>


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