Recommended affordable hardware for 4k video playback?

[Stephen Partington]

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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