I loved my shield. they are rather phenomenal. On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 5:45 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@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@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@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@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. >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Todd Cole >>> Ubuntu Arizona Team >>> 2928 W El Caminito >>> Phoenix AZ 85051-3957 >>> toddc@azloco.com >>> 602-677-9402 >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen