On 22/04/2017 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?
>>>
>> 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.

VLC doesn't use hardware acceleration by the Pi's powerful GPU.

> LibreELEC, on the other hand, gave very good performance on the Pi 3.

LibraELEC does use the acceleration, and I used to play commercial DVDs
with no problems on my Pi2 until the old USB DVD writer packed up. I've
got a USB Blu-ray writer now, but haven't got around to trying it with
the Pi.

---druck

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