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Even the Raspberry Pi 400 has hardware decoding where the Raspberry Pi Foundation claims up to H.265 video decoding in 4K @ 60 fps in hardware. That sounds grea
by jug 6y ago
Even the Raspberry Pi 400 has hardware decoding where the Raspberry Pi Foundation claims up to H.265 video decoding in 4K @ 60 fps in hardware. That sounds great for all sorts of media and streaming!
However the fine print looks to be that this may not hold true for Chrome and streaming / YouTube, but offline videos with certain players because Chromium doesn't support hardware acceleration for this API. Chromium supports VAAPI, this uses libva. sigh Why does this Linux hardware decoding story always repeat itself. :-(
Still, raw CPU may let it manage at least 1080p at 30 fps but I can't say for sure for anything more.
- kzrdude 6y agohttps://github.com/popcornmix/omxplayer https://github.com/popcornmix/omxplayer and Kodi are the only ones I've found that handle it correctly (and those are related/share code) - that means Kodi is the only place to play 1080p or larger youtube video (omxplayer can stream video from youtube, but doesn't by itself handle the separate audio and video streams).
- entropicdrifter 6y agoLooks like there is a way to enable hardware decoding in Chromium, at least on Raspberry Pi OS: https://lemariva.com/blog/rss/raspberry-pi-4-video-acceleration-decode-chromium https://lemariva.com/blog/rss/raspberry-pi-4-video-accelerat...