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Re:Using a Raspberry Pi to add a second HDMI port to a laptop by bmicraft on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @09:45AM (#35168251)
You state multiple times that the Raspberry Pi 3 does not support hardware accelerated h264 decoding, but that's simply not true.

All Pis (except Pico series) support both accelerated encoding and decoding, and have done so since 2012. The Broadcom VideoCore IV in RPi 3 Model B does hw decode at 1080p30.

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Re:Using a Raspberry Pi to add a second HDMI port to a laptop by pcouy on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @09:59AM (#35168436)
Yeah you're right. Someone mentioned it on reddit and the issue was indeed not the lack of hardware decoding, but the fact that using it disabled my optimizations regarding latency. You can read more in this thread :https://reddit.com/r/programming/comments/11r9osx/using_a_ra...
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