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  • Re: making a media client from a pi....

    From Scott Alfter@3:770/3 to [email protected] on Wed Mar 24 19:29:33 2021
    In article <s2tkl0$2vu$[email protected]>, Deloptes <[email protected]> wrote: >Pancho wrote:

    I gave up on a rpi4. It should work but good HD video depends on
    hardware acceleration and Raspbian distro software compatibility with
    acceleration was poor when I tried (i.e. Chrome and VLC didn't support
    it fully)


    This was the case after rpi4 was released.but later it was fixed. Firefox+ >youtube, mplayer, kplayer works fine

    If you just want media try KODI.

    I was also after KODI (not for the RPI4, but for the PC, or VM), however it >was not possible to compile.

    If running on the Raspberry Pi, there's not much need to compile Kodi as
    it's already available through any number of sources: Raspbian, OpenELEC,
    OSMC, etc. The same mostly applies to ordinary PCs if you substitute other distros for Raspbian.

    That said, I recently replaced a Raspberry Pi 3 that had been running Kodi (most recently on Raspbian, and on OpenELEC before that) with a Rock Pi X running Gentoo Linux, and the latest version of Kodi compiled without issue
    on that. (Why the change? I wanted more streaming sources than just
    YouTube. The LBRY desktop app (an AppImage built for AMD64 Linux) runs on
    it, and unauthorized.tv works in Chromium.) The only remaining snag is that
    I think video is still timing out when I leave it for a few hours, and when
    I switch the TV back on it's running at 1080i with overscan, not 1366x768
    (or whatever) without overscan.

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  • From Scott Alfter@3:770/3 to [email protected] on Wed Mar 24 20:08:34 2021
    In article <s30skq$fpc$[email protected]>,
    The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Saned barely supports *any* properly.

    FWIW, it works pretty well with my Canon flatbed scanners: an LiDE 220 at
    home and an ancient N670U at work that doesn't work with any version of
    Windows newer than XP. Way back in the day, I was using it with HP SCSI flatbed scanners like the ScanJet 3c and 4p, and ISTR one of my newer HP all-in-ones worked for scanning as well as printing.

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  • From Scott Alfter@3:770/3 to [email protected] on Wed Mar 24 19:37:49 2021
    In article <s2ud9j$53a$[email protected]>, Deloptes <[email protected]> wrote: >The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    As I understand it, H264 decodes fine, but not webm/vorbis...
    trying to get a feel for the support...

    I am not sure what formats I have tested. The issue was definitely in
    youtube video - could have been format related, but was solved at least >somewhen beginning of last year

    Out of the box, the Raspberry Pi (any model) only provides
    hardware-accelerated H.264 decoding, and software needs to be written in a particular way to take advantage of it. Spending a few dollars on license
    keys enables MPEG-2 and VC-1 (?), but software support for those is likely
    to be even sketchier as I suspect few people go to the trouble. VP9 is
    always going to be software-decoded, which will likely be iffy on anything
    less than a Raspberry Pi 3. (A 64-bit OS might help...but last I checked, Raspbian is still a 32-bit userland.)

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  • From Dennis Lee Bieber@3:770/3 to All on Wed Mar 24 20:24:03 2021
    On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 19:37:49 GMT, Scott Alfter
    <[email protected]> declaimed the following:


    less than a Raspberry Pi 3. (A 64-bit OS might help...but last I checked, >Raspbian is still a 32-bit userland.)

    https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/

    They are basically for testing purposes, not production.


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  • From The Natural Philosopher@3:770/3 to Scott Alfter on Thu Mar 25 07:14:38 2021
    On 24/03/2021 20:08, Scott Alfter wrote:
    In article <s30skq$fpc$[email protected]>,
    The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Saned barely supports *any* properly.

    FWIW, it works pretty well with my Canon flatbed scanners: an LiDE 220 at home and an ancient N670U at work that doesn't work with any version of Windows newer than XP.

    I too have had it work with ancient LIDE.

    I have had trouble with HPO and Epson both.

    Way back in the day, I was using it with HP SCSI
    flatbed scanners like the ScanJet 3c and 4p, and ISTR one of my newer HP all-in-ones worked for scanning as well as printing.

    FSVO 'worked'


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