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I am a bit confused because I had read that the RPi5 had dropped hardware acceleration for video encoding. Is that wrong? Because that wouldn't be a faster, dr
by palata 2y ago
I am a bit confused because I had read that the RPi5 had dropped hardware acceleration for video encoding. Is that wrong?
Because that wouldn't be a faster, drop-in upgrade, right?
- rcarmo 2y agoApparently the new ARM cores can do decoding faster than the Pi 4's hardware decoder. But no encoding, in fact.
- afavour 2y agoDepends if you’re encoding video or not, surely?
- ZiiS 2y agoIt isn't strictly a dropin but it is usually a great upgrade. If you have the power then video encoding is faster and higher quality on the RPi5. If you are battery constrained then it can certainly be worse.
- zamadatix 2y agoThe Pi 4 encoder was in hardware but that doesn't imply it was ever actually particularly fast. I'd bet the Pi 5 CPU+RAM improvements are enough to beat the hardware encoder of the Pi 4 and still have enough CPU leftover to beat the Pi 4 CPU unloaded.