PI 2-3: Note that GPU accelerated H265 decoding is no longer available in LE 10...

beta-tester · October 21, 2022 at 10:18 AM

Quote from LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.3

RASPBERRY PI 2-3

As new addition we support RPi2 and RPi3 at LE10. Please keep in mind this is still brand new and not widely tested. Likely bugs are still possible. Overall, the current version is properly useable.

Note that GPU accelerated H265 decoding is no longer available in LE 10 and future versions. If this is important to you stay at LE 9.2.

was a PI 2 or 3 ever able to do hardware accelerated H265 decoding?

i know H264 (and with license key MPEG-2/VC-1) was hardware accelerated, but as far as i know, H265 is only available starting with PI 4.

**HiassofT** · October 21, 2022 at 11:03 AM

RPi0-3 don't have H265 hardware decoders but older LE (more specifically: ffmpeg) versions contained some clever code to offload some of the heavy lifting to the GPU. So H265 up to HD, with not too high bitrate, was playable on RPi 3.

Unfortunately this code could only work with the legacy proprietary graphics drivers so it's no longer available since LE10 (and has now been removed in latest ffmpeg versions).

so long,

Hias

beta-tester · October 22, 2022 at 5:09 AM

thanks for the explanation, i didn't know that and thought it was a typo in the description...

i apologize for this thread.

RASPBERRY PI 2-3

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