[Coco] CocoPi3 "PacoOtaktay Winter 2017-2018 Edition" now available

[Dave Philipsen]

Gene,

The Raspberry Pi has a GPU that can handle 1080p 30fps video easily.  In fact, I think it will even do 60 fps. However, you have to use the GPU to get it to do that.  I use the command line ‘omxplayer’ to play 1080 videos all the time. Never a hiccup.  Not bad for $35.

Dave

> On Nov 23, 2017, at 5:57 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Thursday 23 November 2017 04:36:53 Dave Philipsen wrote:
>> 
>> Gene, I definitely agree with you on the i/o bottleneck of the Pi. 
>> However, there is one area where it really shines. I have not found
>> another computer that will smoothly and seamlessly play 1080 HD video
>> at the same price point.
>> 
>> I am using the Pi as a video player in a project I’m working on but it
>> acts as a slave to a much slower processor.  The client asked me why I
>> didn’t just use the Pi for the whole kit and kaboodle. And that was my
>> answer, you just can’t do anything practical with it as far as i/o is
>> concerned. I have several different projects using the Pi as a hi-def
>> video player and it has been very, very reliable and will play
>> anything I can throw at it.
>> 
> That was the other point I was going to make Dave.  Running the 
> relatively simple axis gui on top of linuxcnc, my frame rate has never 
> exceeded 10 fps and is generally less than 7fps. You get used to the 
> lag, but its still there. This is using the hdmi port, feeding a 1920 x 
> 1080 monitor using the framebuffer according to /var/log/Xorg.0.log, as 
> jessie has no better drivers for the pi that I've been able to find.
> 
> So what drivers are you using to get a 30 fps rendering at 1080P?
> 
> And what color depth, 16x16 is the best I can get out of the framebuffer, 
> so some colors are compressed, making synaptic, the package manager, a 
> bit hard to see because it uses small white variations to define its 
> boxes etc, and these get lost in the pi's 16 bit display.
> 
>> Dave
> 
> Turkey day but not here, don't know what I'd do with a bird that big and 
> just the two of us.  Not sure what I'll try to feed Dee yet. Whatever 
> all of you folk have, enjoy it. This is supposed to be a family day, 
> getting together to celebrate a bountiful harvest. My boys are all 
> headed for an un-incorporated town my 3rd son has purchased at a fannie 
> may fire sale in central Kansas about 3 years ago, to spend the weekend. 
> I'd like to go, but Dee wouldn't last the trip. COPD is relentless.
> 
> Cheers Dave & all the rest of the coco nuts, Gene Heskett
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