Most cheap USB sound cards 'should' just work (especially if they are C-Media HS-100 based), it'll show up as another audio device.
Posts by powerarmour
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...It would miss some crucial features like refresh rate switching.
Yeah, that's pretty much the critical big kahuna there, without that Wayland is absolutely pointless.
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I've had every model of the RPi and switched between them all, but for me the jump in capability/performance from RPi4 to RPi5 was the most noticeable. It 'feels' the most refined/complete out of them all, like all the wasted fat was trimmed away, leaving only lean transistors.
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Last time i bought sd-cards 32GB was the smallest and cheapest, i payed less than 4 eur.
Yeah not too surprised, might as well go 32GB at that price then.
There's similar OS requirements with chinese handhelds running JELOS, *ELEC etc, it's rare for the OS install to be higher than ~800MB (even with cache), so even <8GB eMMC's and SDCards are fine.
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I tested 1.78 a while back, seemed to help at the time:
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Yep, 8GB is generally enough, but as I find 16GB cards are still more common (and cheap) I'd consider those to be better as a minimum as it gives more of a buffer for large library images and data etc.
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A quality SDCard with good random R/W will be better than a poor USB drive (and vice versa). It really does depend.
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In some ways RPi5 is a blunt instrument; throw CPU at the codec problem and make things work. However it has enough CPU to pull that off, and I've come to view this as a rather shrewd design decision. It normally takes man-years of effort to develop and maintain hardware codecs and RPi5 simply passes the buck to ffmpeg for software processing.
I agree, I was initially a bit miffed that it only supported HEVC/H.265 hardware decoding (as most of my video collection is ~1080p AVC/H.264), but after using it in the real world it's just far better than the RPi4 overall, and generally a non-issue.
Only thing I've found it won't play well is VP9 Profile 2 4k60 test files (it'll definitely cry those in), but for most >4k30 it's fine.
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Yes,
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Ah interesting, appreciate the info!
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Here's a question to any fellow Pi 5 testers, are there actually any media files that a Pi 4 could play that a Pi 5 can't?
I assume not, but I'm aware there may be odd cases like 3D (which Pi 3 had support for) etc
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I see Argon cases are getting a bit of heat, but just to note the new Argon NEO 5 is absolutely fine as it's just a HSF, no gimmicks and all the ports are untouched.
Repeat after me: the pi is conceptually NOT living room material. Its a educational device for tinkerers and nerds.
And neither is an Intel NUC, you always have to make compromises somewhere with a HTPC.
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I used rpi-eeprom-update -a on my Pi 5 recently, that went fine.
Same for me, no issues.
Folks can still also just flash the firmware direct to an sdcard, and it'll auto-install without manual commands required:
Releases · raspberrypi/rpi-eepromInstallation scripts and binaries for the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 bootloader EEPROMs - raspberrypi/rpi-eepromgithub.com -
Strange, I use Libreelec 12 nightly build and I have no problems with the fan, it spends most of the time off and when it is running it is silent, except when the OS starts.
Same with me, I'm using the Argon NEO 5 and the fan doesn't even spin unless the temp hits 50'C and will only run at 50% speed at 60'C (doesn't really get hotter than that often in this case)
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I just built my 8GB Pi 5 with this case: https://argon40.com/en-gb/products…-raspberry-pi-5
Running like a dream at the moment, it's quite impressive how powerful this thing feels compared to the Pi 4 in general.
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I'm just really looking forward to picking up an RPi5, in many ways it's looking like a refined RPi4 but with the performance that genuinely means it'll be able to brute force almost all video playback scenarios in software.
Don't sleep on the uplift the VideoCore VII will provide also, it's 4-5x over the VC6 and will be another useful tool for compute tasks.
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A bit of a lurker here, but inspired by the work on this thread, and using the Moonlight launcher as a base, I've created a Steamlink version.
I've only tested it with Libreelec 10/11 and the Raspberry Pi 4 so far, so any feedback on other setups is more than welcome.Steamlink launcher - https://github.com/meekys/plugin.program.steamlink
Awesome job, but yep it's a shame that the Steamlink app for RPi is proprietary to the hardware, as it'd be a wonderful addition to Moonlight on general ARM SBC's (and especially handhelds).
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Honestly, I'd just reiterate that pre-built/dedicated NAS's (NASI?) are the way to go.
I've owned a Synology DS416slim for years now (and now packed with 4x1TB SSD's) and I've had absolutely no trouble at all with it.
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Hello, stupid question. Do i need to have a specific video card model to support the HDR? Mine one is an Intel HD Graphics 4600. In any case, well done and thank you for the build
Your IGP is too old unfortunately, IIRC it needs to be Gen9 or newer with HDMI 2.0 (or compatible LSPCON) capability to actually support HDR.
Ideally Apollo/Gemini/Kaby/Coffee Lake or newer.
