A few questons before buying raspbarry pie3
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@Lyle_JP isn't there a codec you can install to get it to play that?
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@Gosenbach You are thinking of MPEG2 and VLC1 codec licenses which can be purchased and installed. HEVC is hardware accelerated and the Pi will struggle with 1080p content. It might just play 720p HEVC, at a push.
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@Gosenbach You can load the codec (actually, you don't have to as it's built-in to Kodi now) but the pi will choke on decoding. It only does full HD h.264 thanks to acceleration in the GPU.
I understand that the GPU in the Odroid C2 can process HD h.265 with Kodi 16 and above.
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-There is no h265 hardware decoder in the Pi, but theres is some optimizations using neon instructions, gpu and qpu. The Pi 3 should play pretty much all 720p h265 content and some 1080p low bitrate h265. Theres is still development undergoing to improve this further. Tested this myself.
-Yes, Kodi can play acestreams with the right addon. Tested this myself.
-Allmost all gamepads should work in RetroPie and Kodi, although I am not familiar with the ones you mentioned.
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should i be worryed about this h265? Can I just put everything at H264 or change it to it when it acts up. How much of a difference is it really?
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Went to buy it then get this feeling that I shouldn't. I do have a PC hooked up to my tv that does everything I need. I need some convincing.
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@Deltax5 its under $100 and has less power draw. And you get the chance to learn something new. Why wouldn't you want a pi?
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It'll make your teeth whiter, your hair fuller and your friends and family will respect you for using it. It's basically exact opposite of crystal meth.
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@Deltax5 Well, if your goal is to watch some videos and play some games on your tv, sounds like you are already set.
The pi is a cool platform that will allow you lots of stuff to play around with and it is not limited to playing games and watching videos. However all those projects may not be your thing.
Although you can pretty easily take your pi over to your buddy's house :)
Really, it depends on what your end goals are and what you want to get out of it.
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I need some convincing
Why? Unless your desire for emulation goes beyond just "what works", it sounds like you have what you need.
The pi is very limited compared to a full-size computer; its only real benefits come from its size, cost, and low-power consumption, none of which seem like a plus to you. The pi is not for everyone. It's simple enough that it could be for everyone, but not everyone has a need for it.
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I have five incredibly different multi-system emulation setups in my home. My Pi setup is the least powerful of those, but it's also the one I have the most fun with, as it always seems to be the most flexible with a little creativity. There's always a new idea to make it a little better and I love that. I have a friend who enjoys regularly upgrading and rearranging his retro game room to suit his tastes and to me the Pi represents that same experience encapsulated in an object the size of a pack of playing cards.
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@Deltax5 said in A few questons before buying raspbarry pie3:
should i be worryed about this h265? Can I just put everything at H264 or change it to it when it acts up. How much of a difference is it really?
If your h265 videos doesn't play good in Raspberry Pi 3 with Kodi, you can always encode them to h264 of course. But in a near future you probably won't need that, because there is already new patches available that improves a lot 1080p h265 playback mostly 24fps (24fps is the most common nowdays), we only didn't include that on RetroPie's Kodi 17.1 RC2 because it needs a newer firmware than the one available in Raspbian repos. When a newer firmware is available on Raspbian, we will include that, maybe in time for final 17.1.
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Why should anyone try and convince anyone of anything? Everyone is more than welcome to ask questions but if it sounds like a device that's not for you, then that is fine. Buy it or don't buy it @Deltax5 the decision is your's. If you do, then you have a great community to support you. If you don't buy it, then good luck with your choice.
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@Rascas As an aside. At what point are we going to admit that Kodi 17 is broken? I have jumped through all sorts of hoops and tried to make this work. There are major bugs with this 17.0 and 17.1 RC1 that are being ignored. Why will KODI no longer save my skin settings? It will a few times, but then randomly decides to restore default settings. Btw I am using a supported skin.
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@AlexMurphy said in A few questons before buying raspbarry pie3:
Why will KODI no longer save my skin settings? It will a few times, but then randomly decides to restore default settings.
That usually means that Kodi's not exiting cleanly and corrupting the preference file which is then created fresh on the next startup. I haven't had that problem myself since sometime before Frodo. Have you noticed if this is a widespread issue?
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@mediamogul Yes, A lot. Even using the Estuary skin. Random resets, but not all just certain parts of the skin settings. I have been trying to work it out for about since 17.0 was released to RetroPie. Feb 3rd, I think.
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I'm using OSMC here and obviously a different combination of addons, but my personal experience with Kodi 17 has been pretty positive, not counting the day or two... or three it took to get used to the new user interface.
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@AlexMurphy said in A few questons before buying raspbarry pie3:
@Rascas As an aside. At what point are we going to admit that Kodi 17 is broken? I have jumped through all sorts of hoops and tried to make this work. There are major bugs with this 17.0 and 17.1 RC1 that are being ignored. Why will KODI no longer save my skin settings? It will a few times, but then randomly decides to restore default settings. Btw I am using a supported skin.
The skins I use the most are the old Confluence, Aeon Nox and the new Estuary and never noticed something like that, either on Kodi 17 (or older versions) on PiPplware/Raspbian/Retropie (with the same Kodi versions) or x86 OSs. Seems like data corruption and that is generally caused not by software but some hardware problem.
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@Rascas Hmm. I don't think so. I have no other issues except for Krypton. Been running Kodi for a long time with no major issues. I have 2 set ups. 1 I held at 16, all good. The other I upgraded. Nothing but random issues and crashes and rests.
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@AlexMurphy I dont think it is a software problem, I compile Kodi for Raspbian since the release of the first Raspberry Pis and I think I never had a complain like that, at least that was not proven to be an hardware problem, like faulty/not suituable SD card, problems relative to the power supply or excessive overclocking.
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