Impressive. No lagging No delay and in short, it plays immediately as the yes button were hit. (Yeah, faster than playing a DVD, quicker than playing a CD)
I have an idea why this whole simple set up just work.
So simple and beautiful – I specially like how the toys add to the simplicity of this small and yet powerful setup. (don’t you agree? Okay say no more, I get you)
The Setup
Slipper
Raspberry pie Pi 2 (Model B)
Samsung slightly smart TV
One thing that I don’t want to joke about (I think) is having a quad-core processor and a 1GB of RAM really important to drive something simple like watching a 1080p movie. (Huh?)
I have only played one and a half movies for this testing, I have two words to present; smooth and crisp! Damn the pictures are so perfect!
smooth and crisp!
I watch the Avatar again and my jaws drop. THIS MAKE YOU DON’T WANT TO STREAM MOVIE ANY MORE! (Shit! What’s with the cap — no idea)
What’s the points?
If you have RM182.05 and wanted to have a super computer to play your HD movies, follow what I just did. (Sorry, I won’t apologize if you disagree with me — like Steve Jobs used to say “you’re holding doing it wrong”)
Okay, maybe I’ll apologies if my beautiful daughter kiss me tonight when I get home from work. 🙂
5 responses to “What’s it like using a Raspberry Pi 2 for 1080p movies?”
depends on codecs used, hardware acceleration is not supported for all of them, but if supported – cpu load is low as its used to decode sound only, and … not all players support hw accel
videocore 4 chip is used on pi2 only, earlier model cannot 1080p 😀There’s two codec or something or something for hardware acceleration which I didn’t buy. If it makes a different I would invest in the future.
What setup you use at home now? this little kitty is pretty good!
there are no options 😀 PI 2 comes with BroadCom VideoCore 4
The VideoCore IV BCM2763 processor improves on the VideoCore III with support for 1080p encode and decode, along with higher resolution camera support and faster 2D and 3D graphics, all at very low power. It is used in the Nokia 808 PureView,[4] and the Raspberry Pi.[5]
The original Raspberry Pi is based on the Broadcom BCM2835 system on a chip (SoC),[1] which includes an ARM1176JZF-S 700 MHz processor, VideoCore IV GPU
original Pi luckily for its owners has same GPU, so they likely can watch FullHD as well 😀 even with just 700 Mhz CPU, but PI2 compared to PI1 has 2 GPU cores.
My home media pc is Dual Core Ivy Bridge celeron 1.8 Ghz, i can use accelerated videoplayback via VAAPI on Intel GPU, sadly i cant utilize more powerful Nvidia card for video, only for gaming and likely OpenCL. CPU isnt a main computing power now, for many tasks GPU acceleration matters now , most modern hardware + software will use it (meant you use prebuilt distribution, not one you shall build and tune yourself)
PS: more info on BroadCom Crystal HD – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcom_Crystal_HD
It does NOT support upcoming HEVC (h.265) codec
So far so good. I guess the next generation will support more codec. The good thing about raspberry Pi is that, it is cheap.
I am looking for a way to run it as a small PC for my business. I really hates cables. iPad is so portable and without cable. The shit thing about iPad — hard to find receipts printer without running into a shop and run out with it.
all newer GPU have more codecs than earlier, for HEVC its still unclear about royalty fees for vendors, patent holders ( a lot of well known companies ) want 0.5% this may be too much for a complex products. Another alternatives – VP9 (by google aquired company) – free, Daala (from Xiph), Despite being the best, Daala lacks market promotion, it will stay behind HEVC/VP9 , just like OGG Vorbis for music.
R Pi is powerful enough to replace any older PC , if you find proper software of course )