![]() ![]() Normal graphical environment (X server) does not use accelerated graphics. Also bear in mind that omxplayer is quite young project and while it's quite stable, it's not perfect (like most things on RPi dedicated software). If you are planning on running your own distribution, you have to integrate omxplayer. It is used by RaspBMC so if you plan on using this solution, you should have no problem. And hardware decoding only works with dedicated video player (omxplayer). But you will have to transcode all your material that is in different formats. Graphics chip on RaspberryPi is VERY powerful and if video is encoded with a format supported by the hardware decoder, it can easily play HD content 1080p. You can buy a licence key to enable additional hardware decoders from RPi foundation (currently you can buy MPEG2 and VC-1 license). Hardware acceleration has to be used but by default only H264 can be hardware accelerated. The CPU of RaspberryPi is quite low-end and it can't really decode video at decent speed (even SD MPEG2). However here are a couple of glitches you may encounter: So a lot of people are running raspberrypi as media center with success. It was never designed to be media center it just happens to be possible to use it like that. Currently RaspberryPi is more oriented to developers than to normal users. They are worked on all the time but still, it's not yet as polished as it could be. Raspberry pi mpeg 2 software decoding tv#Keep in mind, not all of the H264 profiles are supported by HW acceleration (for example 10-bit per channel Hi10p decoding is not supported - if you have a lot of recent anime in your collection you probably have a few of these files floating around) - also you'll want a TV set that can decode hi-def DTS audio on its own - that leaves the lightest load on the RPi as it can just stream the unmodified audio channel out with very minimal processing overhead - otherwise you may drop frames if you attempt to decode hi-def audio.įirst of all, remember that software for RaspberryPi is in early state of development and there are a lot of problems with it. So it will much faster once they get to that! ![]() But they are working on the GUI to run in OpenGL:ES too (which is independent from the H264 decoder). Yea- So if the source is all encoded in H264 then the video will play independent of the GUI and should be slick enough. ![]() Piotr The thing is that the HD video goes through the GPU and the menu doesn't. You wont see me replacing that with a Pi for the next 2 years. I have not seen anything better than XBMC for Pi.For my media centre I have use a dualcore AMD with a GTX card and BluRay player. That is the best option in terms of price and extendibility. as of now! I tested it and XBMC works well- decodes xvid/divx 15fps with audio(no lag) But the menu does take a second to a few seconds on high CPU usage. Is the Raspberry Pi sufficient for this requirements or should I have a look for more powerful hardware? Please keep in mind that I am not a consumer and I am perfectly fine to play around with the device.
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