Time for Pi

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>

|   I have an Intel i3 machine as my HTPC.  It seems a waste most of the
| time.  How good is the Pi's video acceleration for Flash?  I'm talking
| stuff like NHL GameCenter Live.

I don't know, but I'll speculate.

Flash is proprietary.  It seems that Adobe has to support the platform
for it to be performant.  I cannot imagine that Adobe supports the Pi.

|   I'm about to get rid of an almost
| 6-year-old Core 2 machine, and haul it off to the York Region ewaste
| depot.  It still "works", but can only handle the lowest NHL GameCenter
| Live speed.  And even that requires "Gentoo ricer" optimization.  And
| forget about 1080p Youtube videos.

Core 2 is likely still a reasonable machine.  CPU speed improvement is
modest.  GPU improvement is more significant.  Intel's GPU was
horribly slow.

Surely what you need is a video card.  Again, I'm no Flash expert, but
I think that an nVidia card and the proprietary driver ought to do the
trick.

Of course Adobe has reduced support for Flash on Linux: no new
versions will be released (bug fixes are likely for a while).  There
is something about supporting Flash only in Chrome, but I don't
remember the details.


Don't trash the machine.

Various not-for-profit hardware re-use locations should be happy to
accept it.

Even I might like it.
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