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10GBps | 4 years ago

Sucks the Pi3 is not supported. "current development is focused on RPi 4"... Yeah, the Pi3 is only like the most widely used embedded system on the planet and Pi4's are still incredibly hard to find. I would have focused on the 3 first. :/

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handrous|4 years ago

I don't think Pi3 had HEVC decoding, which makes it kinda suck vs. a Pi4, as a video-playing device. May as well use a 2, at that point. They'll both struggle with anything over SD-resolution in h.265.

c0l0|4 years ago

My RPi 3B+ turned out to be fast enough to decode most any 1080p H.265 content in unaccelerated software on LE 9.2 without problems. Sure, at high bitrates you'll see more than 300% CPU consumed - but that's when having four cores in that tiny thing actually pays off for real :)

hnlmorg|4 years ago

I've played HD content on a RPi 3 for a few years without any issues. In fact I think it was running an earlier version of OpenELEC (not sure when they changed their name to LibreELEC -- or maybe that's a new project with the same goals?)

I'm pretty sure I've used a RPi 2 for HD content too but that did suck. The UI was a little laggy and I had to manually set NFS mounts because even SMB caused too much overhead. Once the stream started it played most content ok but god help you if you needed to fast forward or rewind.

10GBps|4 years ago

I play 1080p and 720p H.265 all the time without issue on my 3 B+. It's just barely fast enough.

walteweiss|4 years ago

I play FullHD on my Pi 2B v. 1.2 (not 1.1) and it works very well, only with H.264, not 265 (but I don't really need it at the moment and don’t see it as something you really need, if don’t need 4K).

compsciphd|4 years ago

pi4 doesn't have vc-1 (or mpeg-2, but mpeg-2 is doable on the cpu). the Pi4 struggles with vc-1 bluray images. In practice, it should have enough cpu to handle vc-1, except for the fact that ffmpeg doesn't have a threaded decoder for vc-1 (long standing missing feature in ffmpeg, but no one with enough experience

LeoPanthera|4 years ago

It is supported, it's just not finished yet. Dev builds are available, or you can just keep running 9.2, which still works fine.