[ale] RasPI video play

[DJ-Pfulio]

I have a R-pi2.

It is the primary media player in the house - content is either over NFS or DLNA
as a client.

Don't have **any** of the paid codecs. They aren't needed unless you use hidef
MPEG2 or watch liveTV through it. StdDef content plays fine. The CPU handles it
easily.

h.264 codec support is already in the hardware - when watching videos with that
vcodec, CPU is 3% to 15% depending on the resolution. 1080p works fine.  I
suspect mplayer doesn't know to use the HW decoder. Using OSMC as the distro
here with a plexBMC addon (among other addons) to make streaming network shows
nice. Most of these addons get the shows at 720p (or higher) without any
commercials.  5.1 audio works too - both AC3 and AAC - I don't use mp3, but that
works too.  Multiple language tracks for audio and multiple subs or srts work.
All in all, it is a nice, silent, solution for the projector room.

OSMC works with remotes or there is a web interface or there is an android app
which is very nice too. All free. https://osmc.tv/ - the site seems down now.

On 08/19/2015 11:17 AM, Raj Wurttemberg wrote:
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> Did you purchase & enable the hardware video decoders?
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> https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/tag/codecs/
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> https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/new-video-features/
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> /Raj
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> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Boris Borisov
> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 11:04 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] RasPI video play
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> Just playing around my raspi with raspbian. Video link play with Epiphany web browser - 50 percent load. Same link with mplayer tops 100 percent.
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> One would think standalone application would have better performance.
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