<div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>It should just work.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-mb<br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 6:06 AM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Not sure how far down the rabbit hole you have gone, but this is some interesting information via google.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><a href="https://forum.manjaro.org/t/why-youtube-4k-playback-sucks-on-linux/71028" target="_blank">https://forum.manjaro.org/t/why-youtube-4k-playback-sucks-on-linux/71028</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><a href="https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/54392-4k-hevc-10-bit-playbacktrasncoding-help/" target="_blank">https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/54392-4k-hevc-10-bit-playbacktrasncoding-help/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration" target="_blank">https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">the links combined with a GTX 1030 or 1050 might be a reasonable value. or an older intel CPU with quick-sync.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 11:13 PM Todd Cole via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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</div><div>most mid level video cards should do fine but not much help for a laptop <br></div><div>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<br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 8:01 PM T. Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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