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? RPi5 is something like 2x faster than RPi4. Are you using some format that RPi doesn't accelerate? Or are you running something heavy?
I almost picked up an RPi5 to replace my NAS, but the SATA hat was out of stock so I just did a smaller upgrade with stuff laying around my house (Phenom II x4 -> Ryzen 1700, mostly for power savings).
Pi5 doesn't have h264 hardware. Pi4 is probably better for media centers right now.
That's encoding, right? It seems to have 4k60 HEVC decoding, which should be plenty for a media center.
That assumes your media collection is all hevc. That's not the case for most people.
It only needs to be HEVC for 4k content, 1080p works fine in pretty much any format. Most people probably have mostly 1080p or 720p content.
Yes, that's my point. If you have a library full of 1080 h264 then the pi 4 is a better choice. The Pi5 will struggle with software decoding compared to the 4.
At the end of the day, they're different boards with different use cases. I think a lot of people don't appreciate that enough.
What software do you run for that, and is there support for a remote control?
For a standard media center, kodi is pretty great.
I was planning to use it to drive one of my TVs, so basically to be an HDTV player.
The Raspbian OS was fine, the Emby client would not start and the performance on the web client was not great.
Ah, okay. I'm not familiar with Emby, I've mostly only used Kodi on my RPi4. I'm guessing there's a way to get reasonable performance, but you may need to transcode.