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[BryanC]

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-jetson-2gb&num=1

How is hardware decoding using NVIDIA GPUs on Linux? This may be a more capable HTPC SBC than the Pi 4B, which chugs on 4K. The CPU fallback would be much worse, so hardware decoding capability is critical.

[Hendrik]

As far as I know, Jetson does not support typical hardware decoding methods, for some reason NVIDIA decided to use different APIs for those boards, so not useful.
If that actually changes on this new model, we won't know until it is available.

[BryanC]

As far as I know, Jetson does not support typical hardware decoding methods, for some reason NVIDIA decided to use different APIs for those boards, so not useful.
If that actually changes on this new model, we won't know until it is available.

Interesting. I thought the whole point of a developer board was to use the same driver/software stack as the more expensive hardware. Bummer, these would make great little HTPCs and transcoding servers. Out of curiosity, is there a reason that MC cannot use NVIDIA's ffmpeg?

[Hendrik]

We can't support every kind of developer board out there with special versions of things, we have to either rely on standards or the most common hardware out there.

[JimH]

As Hendrik says, we try to follow mainstream hardware.  I recently looked up how the RPi is doing.  They've made 30,000,000 boards!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi