[OT] TOTPs not offered in HD (720p)

[Mike Crowe]

On Monday 11 January 2016 at 16:55:32 +0000, Roger Rarebit wrote:
> A Raspberry Pi zero £4 can play 1080p60fps.

It's not necessarily the codec that's the problem - it's the container. It
may be able to play such a file from an ISO (MP4) container but not from a
transport stream as captured off-air.

Transport streams are rather inefficient to unpack in software since the
chunks of data are so small. Chips used in set-top boxes have special
silicon to make this demultiplexing more efficient. (The Raspberry Pi uses
a mobile phone chip so it lacks this capability so it has to demux in
software.)

Of course, you can remux the file from a transport stream beforehand and
then it will require less horsepower to play.

Mike.