HEVC Decode on Pine A64+

  • Hello,

    i have this board and like it very much; stable and good audio.

    using it for test with Libreelec,

    but it struggle with HEVC video playback.

    Would the newer Pine A64+LTS be better for this task?

    according to specsheet, the SOC should be capable of HEVC Decode.

    Datasheet A64 SOC

    Thanks

  • SoC is the same, so it will function the same. A64 does support HEVC HW decoding and it works just fine. However, it supports only 8-bit depth. If you have 10-bit depth (10-bit or HDR in file name), it will fall back to software decoding and CPU is just too weak for that.

  • thank you for the good answer,ùì have found out myself in meantime that this is the case. finally the rock64 seems stable enough with kodi20 libreelec so i can use that board for 10bit (used to crash very often, latest release seem stable; maybe i just got a bit wanky unit).

    will save some money then for a later board like quartz64 or odroid n2+ the likes.