Video Acceleration API - Wikipedia

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Taking advantage of hardware acceleration can drastically reduce both CPU and power usage when playing video, enabling seemingly innocuous chips — like the Intel N100, to render multiple 4K video streams.

For almost 20 years, I usually have two operating systems running. Linux for development stuff, and a Windows installation for everything else. A long time ago it was a dual boot system, but nowada…

I’ve got this rock64, which is an aarch64 board comparable to a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with 4 gigs of ram. For years I’ve wanted to put a distribution on here that doesn’t have a premade image available, mainly because out of all the options on that page I don’t actually like any of them. Well, except NetBSD, but NetBSD doesn’t have GPU drivers for it. Problem is, everything I do want to use provides rootfs tarballs and tells you to figure it out. To do that I’ve got to get a Linux kernel, track down the device trees so it knows what hardware it has, and then wrangle u-boot into actually booting the whole thing. I figured that would be the hard part; little did I know the depths that Single Board Computer Hell would reach.

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