| ▲ | palata a day ago | |
I am a bit confused because I had read that the RPi5 had dropped hardware acceleration for video encoding. Is that wrong? Because that wouldn't be a faster, drop-in upgrade, right? | ||
| ▲ | ZiiS a day ago | parent | next [-] | |
It isn't strictly a dropin but it is usually a great upgrade. If you have the power then video encoding is faster and higher quality on the RPi5. If you are battery constrained then it can certainly be worse. | ||
| ▲ | rcarmo a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Apparently the new ARM cores can do decoding faster than the Pi 4's hardware decoder. But no encoding, in fact. | ||
| ▲ | zamadatix a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
The Pi 4 encoder was in hardware but that doesn't imply it was ever actually particularly fast. I'd bet the Pi 5 CPU+RAM improvements are enough to beat the hardware encoder of the Pi 4 and still have enough CPU leftover to beat the Pi 4 CPU unloaded. | ||
| ▲ | afavour a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Depends if you’re encoding video or not, surely? | ||