Recommended affordable hardware for 4k video playback?

[Stephen Partington]

I loved my shield. they are rather phenomenal.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 5:45 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Do yourself a favor and get an nvidia shield, which ever model really,
> they all do 4k dope with kodi.  Probably get a cheap old one on ebay even.
> I've still got an OG pro from like 5 years ago, and it's always been on
> point playing any media including super pimp 60gbyte 4k/60 dolby atmos BR
> rips on it, even over cifs to my filer.
>
> It should just work.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 6:06 AM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Not sure how far down the rabbit hole you have gone, but this is some
>> interesting information via google.
>>
>> https://forum.manjaro.org/t/why-youtube-4k-playback-sucks-on-linux/71028
>>
>> https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/54392-4k-hevc-10-bit-playbacktrasncoding-help/
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration
>>
>> the links combined with a GTX 1030 or 1050 might be a reasonable value.
>> or an older intel CPU with quick-sync.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 11:13 PM Todd Cole via PLUG-discuss <
>> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>> A raspberry pi can do 4K but they are backordered and sold out some
>>> reports say maybe after the new year before orders catch up
>>> most mid level video cards should do fine  but not much help for a
>>> laptop
>>> for a laptop it will take a bunch of reading I am sure they are out
>>> there I just have look for that 4K use with linux
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 8:01 PM T. Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss <
>>> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have historically just hooked up an old laptop to my TV to watch
>>>> movies and such, but I recently upgraded to 4k and my poor 4x1.5 GHz CPU
>>>> (AMD E2-6110) can't seem to keep up. Realistically, it kind of struggled
>>>> with 1080p to begin with. I have tinkered with mpv hardware decoding
>>>> options and vaapi, but I'm thinking my old boy with the weak cpu and
>>>> integrated graphics just isn't capable. Pretty sure that's the issue, I
>>>> don't have any major background processes running and it's probably not a
>>>> buffering issue considering that in this case I'm playing videos stored on
>>>> an internal 1TB SSD and I have 8GB RAM. VLC is probably working worse than
>>>> mpv.
>>>>
>>>> Any recommendations for a cheap hardware upgrade for this? Thinking I
>>>> might just try to find an old used computer with some kind of GPU. Likely a
>>>> raspberry pi would have the same problem? What should I be considering for
>>>> minimum/recommended specs? Would puppy linux or some kind of dedicated OS
>>>> be better than a standard arch linux/i3 setup? I feel like what I currently
>>>> run is about as snappy as the device will get.
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>>
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>>
>> Stephen
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Stephen
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