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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Is the Vega 11 enough for 4K video? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 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.