Media centres • RPi5 hardware acceleration

Hey there,

The RPi5 is dealing with every video file very smoothly, but there's just a few H.264 videos (not all of them) that don't seem to work with HW acceleration - it ends up maxing out the CPU and causes lots of frame skips.

I'm wondering what is missing for HW acceleration in this case? I have attached a zipped video as an example. It's just a black screen so it will render fine, but HW acceleration will be disabled

Thanks!

testvid.zip

Statistics: Posted by vikmik — Mon Mar 31, 2025 11:19 pm

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