Raspberry Pi 5 - will it playback 4K Youtube & YTS smoothly?

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  BewareOfThe Dog on 03/10/2023 - 18:54

  -6

  I'm no electronics expert, but I suspect you could burn out the device.

  You could try the 5V/3A, but if there are any issues, then take a trip to Amazon.

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    trongy on 03/10/2023 - 20:42

    It won't burn it out. The Pi and the charger uses the USB Power Delivery protocol to negotiate the correct current and voltage to use.

    I'm running my Pi4 on a Lenovo 65W power supply and it connects at 5V and idles at around 1A and that's using an external SSD. If I max out all CPU cores it goes to around 1.5A

    Note: the earliest production runs of Raspberry Pi 4's did not support USB-PD, but revision 1.2 and higher do support the USB-PD protocol.

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    rumblytangara on 05/10/2023 - 14:30

    You always have the power supply matching or exceeding the requirements (amperage/wattage) of the device.

    Not the other way around.

    You match voltage.

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  Kramo on 03/10/2023 - 20:08

  Shouldn't have any issues with playback.

  As far as power goes, you can give it a shot, the Pi5 says that it detects the 5V5A charger and otherwise runs in a 5V3A mode. So your charger will be safe, and if you feel there's a performance issue, go buy the official charger.

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  rumblytangara on 03/10/2023 - 20:16

  +2

  Also, the power requirement is 5V/5A

  There's no way it's going to be drawing that much power unless it's running full blast and you're powering hard drives and cameras through every USB port that it's got.

  Will the 4GB Pi 5 be able to playback 4K Youtube and YTS (5-8GB mkv / HEVC / AAC / x265) smoothly?

  Seeing as how nobody on this forum has one yet, you should probably trawl Youtube for usage demos. Off memory, 4K video playback is hardly taxing though.

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    trongy on 03/10/2023 - 20:50

    In Jeff Geerling's review at 13:14 he says that he couldn't get youtube playback to work at 4k. This is likely a teething issue since the board is not officially released. I expect Youtube will update their support matrix at some point. The hardware supports h.265 decode at 4k so it's going to be a matter of using video codecs that can be decoded by the GPU hardware.

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      rumblytangara on 03/10/2023 - 21:03

      Ah, I hadn't even realised that this thing was totally unavailable to the public yet.

      Yeah, OP needs to wait until thing thing is available first.

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  deme on 03/10/2023 - 20:45

  Yes, it does hardware 4k60p HEVC decoding

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    [Deactivated] on 04/10/2023 - 17:59

    Pardon the dumb question… When it advertises 4k60 decoding for the codec, assuming optimal scenario, no other app running etc, is it saying it'll actually do 60fps?

    I'm getting a Pi5 to do 100% 4K YT plus 1080p-4K media to my TV off HDD and no other purpose. And 4k HEVC was choppy on my Pi4, like ~20-25fps :-/

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  jv on 03/10/2023 - 22:28

  Raspberry Pi 5

  Can you install macOS 13 on this?

  Or will I need an Apple Pi ???

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    kaleidoscope on 03/10/2023 - 23:51

    +1

    Or will I need an Apple Pi ???

    Make sure you use Granny Smith OS on that

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      Gimbleguy on 10/10/2023 - 03:38

      Where do I download Granny Smith OS please?

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        kaleidoscope on 10/10/2023 - 07:41

        [email protected]

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  Gimbleguy on 11/10/2023 - 17:52

  The rpi 5 struggles to play 4K video. https://youtu.be/jsKqQvFk7Sk?feature=shared

  I'm glad I didn't buy one