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For better or worse, what really matters to the Pi Foundation isn't Kodi unfortunately. How good it is at being a media player is a happy coincidence and not something they designed the Pi for. Whilst that is the case then it's only by luck or similar coincidence that we'll get hardware boosts that more demanding media playing requires.
The wider aim has always been education rather than media playing.
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I have a PI 2 but have as yet no intentions of upgrading to the PI 3 as im only really using it to experiment with a few things just now
next project is GPS tracker but have not looked into it yet
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Can someone confirm if the 10w power supply from an iPad will suffice for the new pi3? I have a few laying around that I'm hoping to use. Thanks in advance.
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The problem is essentially the SOC GPU, which decodes VC1, MPEG2 and H.264 natively. Contrary to what is said above, there is a lot of co-operation with Kodi, one kodi dev works for the RPi foundation.
The trouble with moving on to another SOC (eg one capable of HEVC 4k/60 etc) is that a lot of the work that has gone into getting this one to work so well will need to be redone.
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There will be a couple of things that will speed adoption of hevc and the need for hevc compatible hardware decoding.
1. 4K, where the benefits are more keenly felt; and
2. When ripping groups adopt hevc as standard, and downloaders find they need to get with the hevc thing.
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2016-03-07, 06:53
(This post was last modified: 2016-03-07, 06:54 by MidnightWatcher.)
I'm not interested in illegally downloading movies for my library, but I am interested in encoding Blu-rays I've purchased to h265 in order to reduce storage requirements. Be that as it may, since technology is rapidly moving forward to HEVC and 4K there needs to be an RPi solution to support it in hardware sooner rather than later, otherwise KODI users will start migrating to other solutions. In the grand scheme of things we may be a minority, but I don't think we're insignificant.
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Well there are other hardware platforms for kodi that handle 4k/hevc.
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Yep, I'm keeping my eye open for the Q5 Pro.
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