Recommended affordable hardware for 4k video playback?

[Michael Butash]

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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