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Re:Designing Raspberry Pi 400 by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @10:02AM (#24989621)
Have you considered that the compression algorithms for video are nontrivial? I mean I'm sure there can be dedicated hardware for video decoding, but would you put that in a low-cost, low-energy entry-level CPU where you want to shave off as much cost in favor of flexibility?

The Pi is not primarily intended for media consumption. That said, for a similar price to a RPI + display you can get a cheap tablet that will (should?) have dedicated video hardware.

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Re:Designing Raspberry Pi 400 by pjc50 on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @11:02AM (#24990194)
The original Pi CPU was intended for media consumption in set-top-boxes; it was a huge video core with a small ARM on the side.
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Re:Designing Raspberry Pi 400 by CyberDildonics on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @11:58AM (#24990764)
It has had hardware video decompression for multiple revisions.
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Re:Designing Raspberry Pi 400 by dividuum on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @12:07PM (#24990849)
In fact it had H264 decoding in all revisions, optional unlockable MPEG2 and VC1(?) up to and including all Pi3 models and H265 since the Pi4.
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