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Re:Fedora 36: A brave new (DRM/KMS only) world by jancsika on Sunday April 24, 2022 @03:20PM (#31147318)
> If KMS is causing things to be slow, it might be because the video driver is not working and the software framebuffer is being used. At higher resolutions that'll be slow.

But then how could using a software framebuffer on an underpowered thing like the RPI400 cause the video to play smoothly?

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Re:Fedora 36: A brave new (DRM/KMS only) world by snvzz on Sunday April 24, 2022 @04:43PM (#31148141)
>an underpowered thing

I would not call Raspberry Pi 400 underpowered.

The Cortex-A72 cores are fairly fast.

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Re:Fedora 36: A brave new (DRM/KMS only) world by kiwijamo on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:57AM (#31151109)
I know from first hand experience that cpu struggles to play MPEG-4 video in software.
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Re:Fedora 36: A brave new (DRM/KMS only) world by snvzz on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:48AM (#31151316)
What codec from MPEG-4, and what software implementation?
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