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What's the cheapest hardware that can playback videos at 1080p? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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There are so many options out there, it's kind of dizzying.

I'm looking for a cheap solution that I could hook up to a TV and ethernet, so it could run a flavor of Linux (or BSD) and play videos at 1080p. Bonus points if it can handle 1080p@60 FPS. Other than that, it would be used for light web browsing.

I was looking at Raspberry Pi 4, but is there anything else you would suggest?

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[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As it turns out, my brother had one on hand to try out and it played 1080p movies just fine. So yeah, RPi 4 is probably what I'm going with. Either that or a Rock64.

[–] jedrax@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I would go with the RPi 4 over the Rock64, but it's entirely personal preference.

[–] Arcadius@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My main rig is an Rpi 4 8 gb. Instead of an SD card I have a 250 gb ssd as it's boot and storage. I'm probably never going to build or buy another rig ever again.