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by padenot
960 days ago
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Raspberry Pi have had hardware decoder for h264 for as long as they've existed (I think?), but dropped in the most recent version. I don't understand why. They've recently contributed non-trivial patches to Firefox to use the embedded Linux API for video hardware acceleration (V4L2, vs. VAAPI on desktop that we also support), and are shipping the h264ify extension with their Firefox build to get that codec often for their users so that the experience is good on older devices. Maybe the 5 is that much faster than it's not needed as much, but h264 represent so much content that it feels a bit surprising anyways. But I'm just a software person, hardware is complicated differently. |
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