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.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 upmost mid level video cards should do fine but not much help for a laptopfor 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 linuxOn 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.
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