On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 10:23:10PM -0500, tlugys.ats@spamgourmet.com wrote:
I haven't pay much attention to raspberry-pi before. It comes with an HDMI port, is it? How fast would it be to play movies from localnetwork, or play youtube videos?
From the Official announcement, I saw " NEON-enabled multicore video codecs can be over 20x faster", so would this 20x faster be fast enough for playing youtube from a browser?
Well certainly the new version does support neon as well as vfp3/vfp4. Of course it also still has the videocore that supports a number of video decoding options. Certainly doing it by CPU only was hopeless on the original pi, but that's not what they were doing in general as far as I know. I see http://www.raspi.today/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-raspberry-pis-epi... says that the original can play 720p videos from youtube and vimeo. It may be that the new CPU cores will help it do more than that. -- Len Sorensen