Personally I would wait until LE 10 is actually released. It's impossible to know what drivers are available.
I lost track of AMD cards years ago so cannot comment on that model, but GTX1050 is nVidia so it will not be supported in LE10 .. or to be more specific; it will run via the nouveau driver (slowly) and you won't want to use it.
According to me RX550 and better, nothing cheaper. I wouldn't bet on the fact that HD5450 / 6450 will still be supported in version 11 and later. Libreelec does not care much about backward compatibility, which is already apparent from the experience of playing old AVI files.
but GTX1050 is nVidia so it will not be supported in LE10
That's why I was going to use the GTX 1050 in a new (non-HTPC) desktop PC
but I just don't know whether I need a low, mid or high falluting AMD card for LE10.
The lower end NVIDIA, the GTX 1050, handles all my current needs (4K, upscale, x265 hevc, etc)
so will it's equal from AMD, the RX 560, have the same capabilities but with also the support for LE10?
I just don't know much about AMD cards.
The old HD 7770 handles x265 hevc on a 1440x900p monitor(DVI), but I've heard that it needs a DP to HDMI 2.0 adapter to play 4K, and I don't think it will upscale or handle a large 4K OLED screen.
The HD 7770 handles nothing about HEVC - CPU makes everything (by pure CPU power). For hardware handling HEVC you need at least RX 4xx.
nVidia have no VAAPI support anymore = no support in newer Libreelec.
Will the intel nuc8i7hvk lose support too in LE10?
HD 7770 handles nothing about HEVC
Checked out VLC media info whilst playing video
Codec: MPEG-H Part2/HEVC (H.265) (hevc)
MB: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3LR
CPU: [email protected] / 4gb ram
HD 7770 Cape Verde XT
Display: 1440x900 60Hz
OS: Trinity Desk Enviroment, a Unix like System based on Linux
Maybe VLC knows it's origins but HD 7770 plays without knowing?
It does play perfectly with VLC Media Player
Will the intel nuc8i7hvk lose support too in LE10?
No, Intel GPU devices will migrate from X11 to the next-generation Kodi-GBM video pipeline.
The HD 7770 handles nothing about HEVC - CPU makes everything (by pure CPU power). For hardware handling HEVC you need at least RX 4xx. nVidia have no VAAPI support anymore = no support in newer Libreelec.
nVidia uses VDPAU not VAAPI. AMD was also using VDPAU but switched to VAAPI (shared with Intel). VAAPI is supported going forwards. VPDAU (and thus all the nVidia cards that depend upon it) are not supported.
No, Intel GPU devices will migrate from X11 to the next-generation Kodi-GBM video pipeline.
Thanks for clarify
HD7770 has got only UVD 4.0 decoder!
= NO HARDWARE ACCELERATION of HEVC/H265 decoding.
For HEVC/H265 decoding you need at least UVD 6.0 decoder (Rx 3xx cards and higher).
yeah, but only due SW decoder.
