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A more powerful raspberry pi
Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 1:29 am
by AC_Orange
Hi guys,
I'm thinking about getting two of these for the sole purpose of showing scrolling text in chrome from a webpage
The raspberry pi's i'm using at the moment are just not powerful enough and the text is scrolling really slow
Any recommendations?
Re: A more powerful raspberry pi
Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 5:15 am
by emu_kidid
http://au.element14.com/circuitco/bb-bb ... /229162001
More powerful, but surely text scrolling should be fine on a Pi, what linux distro are you using? Might be faster to have it run xbmc distro and drop a video file on it hehe
Re: A more powerful raspberry pi
Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 5:30 am
by novenary
Web browser performance on the pi is so slow because there is absolutely no HW acceleration implemented in X, and Chromium can't use it due to that. The foundation is working on Wayland + Weston + a DE for the Pi with full HW acceleration that is insanely faster (the Pi's GPU is as powerful as the Xbox's, but the CPU is much weaker : P3@733MHz vs P2@300MHz equivalent).
Re: A more powerful raspberry pi
Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 12:04 pm
by AC_Orange
I need a web browser :/ the contents change daily. Openelec doesn't have a web browser plugin for Pi
Yeah I found it strange that it can play 1080p movies pretty well but chokes on text. Makes sense now that I hear it's all software
Thanks