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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HE... by bmicraft on Monday October 30, 2023 @02:20PM (#38073489)
Youtube today is mostly vp9 anyway, if you don't use the h246ify extension which limits you on resolution/framerate anyway on many videos
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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HE... by Cyberdog on Monday October 30, 2023 @05:36PM (#38076268)
Even on mobile? I sincerely hope when I play a YouTube video on my iPhone it's using the built-in decoder hardware rather than churning through what may as well be Google's proprietary codec on the CPU but I guess I have no way of knowing.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HE... by kcb on Monday October 30, 2023 @07:46PM (#38077627)
Apple has had VP9 hardware decode support for a while.
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