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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer by ant6n on Thursday November 26, 2015 @06:40PM (#10635219)
My phone doesn't ever play 12GB blu-ray rips; and the rpi hardware is older than current phones (which use armv7 and armv8). Given the speed of the cpu, it's surprising it can decode a full H264 stream.

But It's good to know. The down-vote seems unnecessary.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer by ac2u on Thursday November 26, 2015 @08:28PM (#10635439)
It's not so much software running on the CPU doing the work here. It's hardware support for decoding via the GPU that enables it.
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