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Does anyone know if either of the tablets mentioned can play an HD movie acceptably? Say 1-2GB H264 .mkv or .mp4 files? Looking to retire a decade old androi

• Havoc 3y ago
  I doubt any of the risc-v gear has hw decoding running already
  • brucehoult 3y ago
    The recent Explaining Computers youtube review of the Lichee Pi 4A showed it playing 720p from youtube very well, but struggling a little on 1080p. The SoC should be easily up to 1080p but perhaps more work is required on the software side -- the non-beta boards have only been shipping for two months. In general, on the JH7110 and TH1520 boards, right now you get ImgTech's driver and thus hardware decoding if you run the official manufacturer's OS image, but not if you run some generic RISC-V Linux image.
    • snvzz 3y ago
      >The recent Explaining Computers youtube review of the Lichee Pi 4A showed it playing 720p from youtube very well, but struggling a little on 1080p. The same video does, earlier on, demonstrate vlc or mpv playing 1080p w/o issue. Chromium, specifically, is what has trouble keeping up.
      • brucehoult 3y ago
        Or the CODEC youtube wanted. I recall comments on the video suggest using a plugin to force youtube to serve H.264/5 make it work better.
• snvzz 3y ago
  Both JH7110 and TH1520 have hardware video codec blocks. Find the details of what they can handle in the official specs, but note they are much better than the Raspberry Pi 4, which many find sufficient for the task.