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		bmicraft on Oct 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and ... Youtube today is mostly vp9 anyway, if you don't use the h246ify extension which limits you on resolution/framerate anyway on many videos

Cyberdog on Oct 30, 2023 [–]

Even on mobile? I sincerely hope when I play a YouTube video on my iPhone it's using the built-in decoder hardware rather than churning through what may as well be Google's proprietary codec on the CPU but I guess I have no way of knowing.

kcb on Oct 30, 2023 | [–]

Apple has had VP9 hardware decode support for a while.

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