On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 06:05:58PM +0200, Mihai Popescu wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to find some hardware for an OpenBSD multimedia computer. > I plan to attach it on a HDMI TV and play youtube on it, 1080p@30fps > or more. No 4K involved. > > My thinking is to go for an AMD A8-6500 processor, but I am not sure > if this is enough.Right now I am using and AMD Athlon II X2 B26 which > drops some frames on youtube 1080p. I've read that ffmpeg, mpv and > chromium do not use GPU in any way for decoding in OpenBSD.
This surprises me, your CPU doesn't seem that slow. > I could not afford to go for performance hardware like Intel Core > I7-4770, so if you please could you make some suggestion about what > you run as a minimum requirements? Am I on the right track thinking > that more powerful CPUs will speed up decoding? I'd suggest to check where is spent most of the CPU time, in mpv or in Xorg? You could try different mpv "-vo" options, there are machines where "-vo x11" is faster than the default one. HTH
