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Does anyone know if the rPi4 can play HD (1080p) video in a browser smoothly yet? I bought one to use as a media PC after reading that it could play 4K video. A

• paines 6y ago
  Yes it can do full hd, ever since at least rPi3. Problem here is chromium. Use omxplayer and the rPi4 will do 4k in full glory. I think you can even use omxplayer with youtube somehow. Chromium doesn't even do hardware decoding on x86 desktops, you just don't notice it, because the cpu's are fast enough to do it nowadays.
  • jstsch 6y ago
    > Chromium doesn't even do hardware decoding on x86 desktops Which is a ridiculous waste of energy... :( you notice it too now using Microsoft Teams (Electron) and Google Meet versus Facetime. Eats your battery in no time.
  • magicalhippo 6y ago
    > you just don't notice it, because the cpu's are fast enough to do it nowadays On my Intel NUC, which is a few years old, I have to use an extension[1] which forces YouTube to serve h264. Otherwise it's a loud laggy mess. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/h264ify/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/h264ify/
  • danieldk 6y ago
    s|on x86 desktops|on x86/x86_64 Linux desktops|