I installed Android TV on a Raspberry Pi and learned exactly where DIY hardware meets its limits.

There's no point buying a Steam Machine.

VDPU381 and VDPU383 video decoders are found in Rockchip RK3588 and RK3576 SoCs and variants like the RK3588S and RK3576J. So far, we had to rely on the Rockchip BSP to support hardware video decoding ...

In many ways, Johann Sebastian Bach paved the way for the likes of fellow legendary composers Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. The latter even referred to Bach as ...

The current generation of AMD graphics cards, the Radeon 9000 Series, has been on the market for over a year. These GPUs are based on the RDNA 4 architecture, but AMD still has room to release new ...

The grounds of the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London have undergone a complete transformation in recent years, which has served to ensure that visitors are fully immersed in the wonders of the ...

What happens when a trusted tech brand makes a decision that fundamentally alters how its products are used? For Synology, the answer is unfolding in real-time, as its recent move to eliminate ...

Bring deep expertise in hardware design, parallel computing and video solutions. Email: umanulua@gmail.com More than 10 years have passed since I wrote my last post on the topic of developing an H.264 ...

Abstract: With network transmission delays reduced, video encoding latency emerges as a critical challenge for live video streaming. Nowadays, H.264/AVC remains the most popular video encoding ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SmartDV™ Technologies, provider of flexible, highly configurable, customizable semiconductor design IP (intellectual property) and VIP (verification ...

I am trying to use the v4l2-mem2mem device to play AVC-encoded videos with hardware decoding on a Pi 3B or Zero 2W: Note: I was told in mpv's IRC channel that mpv also uses ffmpeg's libavcodec for the ...