posted by
Fnord666
on Sunday November 24 2019, @03:53PM
from the just-play-the-file-already dept.
Arthur T Knackerbracket submitted a link to an interesting hackaday story about a DIY video player. The approach taken is very simple, using a Raspberry Pi to do all of the heavy lifting. There's also no user interface. The Pi scans for any removable media that has been inserted, and if it finds something it automatically plays the video files contained on the card. For anyone interested in building a no-frills, portable video player this might just be the ticket.
Performance is up tremendously and hardware decoding of video is improved. Although Pi4 will still be "hot" or warm most of the time depending on case/cooling.
All of the older models should have been capable [wikipedia.org] of smooth 1080p30 video playback. RPi3 and a revision of RPi2B could decode 1080p60. Now RPi4 should do up to 4K60 H.265.
Because Broadcom's chips are TV-oriented, I expect the RPi5 to decode AV1. And it might even decode 8K resolution video, something nobody is asking for with a straight face.
Yep, Pi 1 B. But it could handle a limited amount of playback, and of course I never had any problem with audio decoding. And sure, that's the nice thing about improved models - maybe I need to lay my hands on a new one. Haven't been much into it for quite awhile, played around with arduino a bit for a specific project. But of late have been too busy for any fun like that.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday November 25 2019, @10:52PM (1 child)
Original, you say? As in Raspberry Pi 1 Model B or a later model?
http://archive.is/BtR1u [archive.is]
https://archive.is/BtR1u/a257318a8001d64cbde761bc8420574ffcd8c99e [archive.is]
Performance is up tremendously and hardware decoding of video is improved. Although Pi4 will still be "hot" or warm most of the time depending on case/cooling.
All of the older models should have been capable [wikipedia.org] of smooth 1080p30 video playback. RPi3 and a revision of RPi2B could decode 1080p60. Now RPi4 should do up to 4K60 H.265.
Because Broadcom's chips are TV-oriented, I expect the RPi5 to decode AV1. And it might even decode 8K resolution video, something nobody is asking for with a straight face.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday November 26 2019, @03:43PM
Yep, Pi 1 B. But it could handle a limited amount of playback, and of course I never had any problem with audio decoding. And sure, that's the nice thing about improved models - maybe I need to lay my hands on a new one. Haven't been much into it for quite awhile, played around with arduino a bit for a specific project. But of late have been too busy for any fun like that.
This sig for rent.