It was nice knowing Raspberry Pi while they lasted. Going to suck losing something that has changed the homegrown embedded system hobby forever.

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      5 months ago

      That assumes your media collection is all hevc. That’s not the case for most people.

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        5 months ago

        It only needs to be HEVC for 4k content, 1080p works fine in pretty much any format. Most people probably have mostly 1080p or 720p content.

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          5 months ago

          Yes, that’s my point. If you have a library full of 1080 h264 then the pi 4 is a better choice. The Pi5 will struggle with software decoding compared to the 4.

          At the end of the day, they’re different boards with different use cases. I think a lot of people don’t appreciate that enough.