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Hello, I'm looking to setup a simple Linux-based media center PC, as I really can't stand ad ridden TV interfaces, using an old tiny Lenovo Thinkcentre with a Ryzen 5 2400GE or something similar.

Does anyone have any experience with rendering 4K video on such a weak iGPU? All the information I seem to find is Windows only.

Hope I'm not in the wrong community.

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[-] Nuuskis9@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

I've watched 4K Youtube on that cpu without issues.

[-] dark_stang@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

That should be totally fine for 4k video playback.

[-] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

That's good to hear. Thank you :)

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Should be overpowered, only thing I'd recommend is having 2 channels of ddr4.

[-] mrquantumoff@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

it will be enough for YT playback, since streaming services don't support PCs

[-] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I was thinking of running jellyfin, and have been experimenting with it for the last few days.

What do you mean by streaming services not supporting PCs? I've had both HBO Max and Prime running perfectly on Linux.

[-] mrquantumoff@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

by not supporting PCs, I meant 4K/Dolby Atmos/HDR streaming (except netflix, which gives you HDR and Atmos if you use their shitty windows app)

[-] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, I see. To be honest, I never really cared about HDR, but as far as I know it's not supported on Linux at all.

[-] ___qwertz___@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

The important thing you want to look out for is hardware decoding.

This iGPU supports h264 and h265, so you should be fine with pretty much everything you throw at it. It does not support AV1, but adoption will take quite some time so I wouldn't bother.

When AV1 eventually gets mainstream you can just put a cheap (non-"gaming") GPU in there for 50$ or so.

So yea, you will be fine.

[-] exu@feditown.com 1 points 1 year ago

Somehow missed the 11 and for a second I thought you wanted to put a Vega 7 in a mini PC just for video playback 😅

But a Vega 11 should be fine. It's mainly about the video acceleration chip a GPU has built in and less about its overall power in computing.

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