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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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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

That's encoding, right? It seems to have 4k60 HEVC decoding, which should be plenty for a media center.

[–] ashok36@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ashok36@lemmy.world 2 points 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.