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moocow said:
The Raspberry Pi 5 (BCM2712) in particular bit me when I tried to set one up for media playback last year. It has a custom designed dedicated video decode block that handles exactly one codec: H.265, rated at 4K at 60 FPS. It lacks decoding hardware support for literally everything else, even H.264, and certainly also no AV1 support. 1080p 60FPS playback of H.264 chews up about 50-60% of the CPU's horsepower. AV1 was unplayable beyond about 720p unless something significant has changed on the software stack side.
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It was deemed acceptable to decode H.264 and sometimes VP9/AV1 with the CPU:

I guess they dropped H.264 to save a little on licensing fees (only to have board costs later explode because of RAM), or because Broadcom largely dictates what RPi gets to have despite RPi being a publicly traded billion dollar company now.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
It was deemed acceptable to decode H.264 and sometimes VP9/AV1 with the CPU:

I guess they dropped H.264 to save a little on licensing fees (only to have board costs later explode because of RAM), or because Broadcom largely dictates what RPi gets to have despite RPi being a publicly traded billion dollar company now.
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From that blog:
That blog said:
And they've tested AV1, VC1, and VP9 at 1080p with no issue, though 4K in non-native formats does encounter frame dropping.
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Okay, that lines up with my experience for the most part (though I found AV1 gagged it at 1080p as well). The way that's written, it borderline downplays how bad that frame dropping is though. It skips more frames than it renders in AV1. The only way to really find out for sure now is for me to dig that little devil out of the drawer, pop a new install on it and see. I'll muck with it. Curiosity will kill me one day, but it's a good motivator in the interim. :story:

And yeah, lol they can't catch a break on the hardware specs. Between the chipmakers being intransigent cunts with bit players (billion-dollar corp or not, RPi is a bit player for sure) and memory prices fucking everybody over, the 5 got a pretty raw deal. Sadly if you want to have any pull with the chipmakers you basically have to be Samsung or Google at this point.
 
Hentai-Semitism said:
Rarelust. I will never stop advertising this site. There's tons of obscure stuff of all genres. Action, horror, porn, documentary, American, European, Asian, you name it. The only problem is that the download speeds are low for people without premium Tezfiles accounts.
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They seem to have some really interesting really old timer stuff but unfortunately I have found downloading anything virtually impossible. Tezfiles is the only option for everything and I think you are understating just how EXTREMELY SLOW the free tier is, and their subscription is super expensive for what it is. I'm pretty sure rarelust is basically a scam to try to sell Tezfiles subs, there's no reason to not add more viable options for download otherwise.
 
Unknown God said:
They seem to have some really interesting really old timer stuff but unfortunately I have found downloading anything virtually impossible. Tezfiles is the only option for everything and I think you are understating just how EXTREMELY SLOW the free tier is, and their subscription is super expensive for what it is. I'm pretty sure rarelust is basically a scam to try to sell Tezfiles subs, there's no reason to not add more viable options for download otherwise.
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Well, a lot of the stuff there is simply impossible to find elsewhere, so I can't complain. I use JDownloader to queue downloads. I found an automated captcha solver for Tezfiles and it works very well. I think I got it from Github.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
It was deemed acceptable to decode H.264 and sometimes VP9/AV1 with the CPU:

I guess they dropped H.264 to save a little on licensing fees (only to have board costs later explode because of RAM), or because Broadcom largely dictates what RPi gets to have despite RPi being a publicly traded billion dollar company now.
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The problem with Raspberry PIs is honestly it seems to be 1 step forward with some feature and another step back with another on each revision.
The other ARM boards are a PITA when it comes to software support.

Unless you need GPIO, you are better off just getting a MiniPC.
 
moocow said:
Oh yeah I get that. Not saying you're lying; I'm genuinely asking, as I still have the hardware and this encourages me to crank it up and re-test it on the latest software stack. My last attempt at 4k AV1 playback couldn't even achieve 5-6 FPS. AV1 codecs are still very much in active development though (both encoders and decoders are improving year after year). It's easy to forget h.264 (and even h.265) have been around for well over a decade (two decades for h.264) and even those decoders still see improvements from time to time, either from adding support for fancy new SIMD or vector math instructions in modern CPUs or just algorithmic improvements.

AV1 is in the same boat -- Google only declared it "good enough" for general use a few years ago and rolled it out on Youtube, but even they still also encode all videos to the older VP9 to support older devices because AV1 playback wasn't well optimized back then (it's still not "perfect" -- they're mostly leaning on hardware acceleration for AV1 support for Youtube playback). They're already grinding on AV2 too but the community's nowhere near done optimizing AV1.

I'll have to dig out the beastie and give it another shot to where things stand now. I'd love to be able to put that thing back in place. Fucking Fire TV sticks have been working "well enough" but getting more irritating with every update. I'm almost to the point I'm going to block them at the firewall from talking to Amazon at all; I wouldn't be shocked if they intentionally break sideloaded apps within the next couple of years as they phase out the old Android-based Fire TV models and replace them with their new custom OS models.
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Isn't specifically citing lack of native 4K AV1 decoding a really narrow use case, though? It can decode h.265 natively and seems to handle h.264 fine through software in my experience. Both formats that are extremely common on piracy sites. It seems like it's not an issue most people are going to run into, especially considering I assume many in a piracy thread try to avoid logging into services and prefer to pirate content. I've legit never had to think about it until this conversation.

Now look, I'm biased. I do like the pi ecosystem personally. They're durable, I like the form factor, and there are tons of readily available cases that look nice on my TV stand. However, it has little practical benefit over a similarly priced low end PC. That being said, similarly priced PCs also generally lack native AV1 decoding and would also struggle to maintain a consistent framerate at 4k 60fps. I'm not buying a device like a Chromecast or a Fire Stick that I need to enter my address and phone number to use just for the sake of having native 4K AV1 decoding.
 
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Squanto Airi said:
Is there any good sports streaming sites? A coworker is asking about it since StreamEast is down again.
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StreamEast Mirrors has all available mirror sites they host. They're all online. I'm on StreamEast right now.
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Never Scored said:
Isn't specifically citing lack of native 4K AV1 decoding a really narrow use case, though?
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It's my use case, so no?

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Unknown God said:
Tezfiles is the only option for everything and I think you are understating just how EXTREMELY SLOW the free tier is, and their subscription is super expensive for what it is. I'm pretty sure rarelust is basically a scam to try to sell Tezfiles subs, there's no reason to not add more viable options for download otherwise.
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This is correct. It's a front to sell Tezfiles subs. He either owns it or has a lucrative affiliate deal with them. It's more proof to me that the copyright cartel doesn't actually give one shit about copyright law (except for the abuse it enables for them) that they've never so much as blinked in his direction. It's like they inherently respect a fellow grifter and let it go because the scam's so well-done.

For the record, "free tier" downloads are throttled to between 10k and 100k/sec depending on the time of day. Also capped at one or two simultaneous transfers depending on the time of day.

You can get stuff from there for free, but it requires the patience of Job to actually do it (and a good download manager).
 
Some of my Pis get used for physical connectivity like SDR Dongles. Z-Wave dongles. One has a little AI hat to monitor cameras. Another does my Piracy, it uses flexget to monitor for new episodes of my shows(tm) ships the request off to the seedbox and then when the seedbox finishes pulls the file down to the big-ass-NFS share on my real server. The Piracy box(tm) is doing a bit too much for a container and a bit too little to justify a VM, so it's a Pi.

On the other hand, at current prices I'd just run them on a spare x86 box I think if I didn't already have several.

As was mentioned I don't use any of them with a screen any more except the one in the garage I use to look up stuff, not view videos.
 
DavidS877 said:
Z-Wave dongles
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My nigger.

Z-Wave is fun shit. I do wish you could put more than 253 devices on one Z-Wave network but I imagine once you hit that number of devices you probably start to run into bandwidth limitations that prevent it from scaling much further. When you think about the number of light switches in the average house though ... between that and adding smart switching to outlets, you could easily hit 100 devices just swapping out light switches and "smarting up" just some of your outlets.

Doesn't matter. It's still really cool stuff anyway.
 
moocow said:
Z-Wave is fun shit. I do wish you could put more than 253 devices on one Z-Wave network but I imagine once you hit that number of devices you probably start to run into bandwidth limitations that prevent it from scaling much further. When you think about the number of light switches in the average house though ... between that and adding smart switching to outlets, you could easily hit 100 devices just swapping out light switches and "smarting up" just some of your outlets.
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You can connect multiple Z-Wave hubs to the same Home Assistant instance.

I have ~150 devices but had to split my network in half because of the occasional retransmit storm. Right now, it's just two dongles connected to the same computer, but at some point I'll probably relocate one to a Raspberry Pi in another part of the house to reduce the number of hops for e.g. my outdoor lights.
 
Billy Beeple said:
You can connect multiple Z-Wave hubs to the same Home Assistant instance.
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Oh nice! I didn't realize two hubs could be in range of each other without stomping on each other's transmissions.

Good to know. Thanks!
 
The people that were suggesting SoulSeek, I fucking thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I know I've said this before in this thread, but it's even moreso appreciated given the fact that JunoDownload, a DRM-Free music store, closed down. And they had a lot of good shit on there I couldn't find anywhere else, especially imports from other countries.
 
Celebrate Nite said:
The people that were suggesting SoulSeek, I fucking thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I know I've said this before in this thread, but it's even moreso appreciated given the fact that JunoDownload, a DRM-Free music store, closed down. And they had a lot of good shit on there I couldn't find anywhere else, especially imports from other countries.
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Install Nicotine+ to use Soulseek's network with a much better and more customizable UI.
 
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