[IDEA] Raspberry Pi 2 and H.265/HEVC?

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(3rd Feb, 2015 04:01 AM)rikardo1979 Wrote:  to be honest that thing is need i7 to play properly and I do not think it would ever work on ARM of any kind
Hi10P H.264 possibly as it runs now without stutter just lots of picture artifacts and discolouration, but honestly doubt it would run H.265

I agree with you. Unless the Soc as built in hardware decoders i'm not seeing been possible to decode properly HEVC just with soft algorithms. And certainly not on a A7 core based CPU (baring in mind that the CPU have to handle a lot more stuff than just the codec part...)

The current gen Qualcomm SoC's that are said to support H.265 all have GPU's that decode and encode by hardware (and the same goes for Nvidia, Samsung, Lg, etc...).

Also there is the question of the max resolution output that the Pi can do.... isn't limited to 1080p ? Or is it possible to bypass that limit with coding?

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(3rd Feb, 2015 04:11 AM)f1vefour Wrote:  My tablet is more powerful and it can't decode H.265 in real time, so no it won't be able to do this.

Same here mate... my desktop is running on a i5 with a Nvidia GPU and it can't handle H.265