09-27-2023, 04:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-27-2023, 04:52 PM by Kevin Kofler.)
Why don't you just try it? Because you only have the original PinePhone and want to know how the Pro performs? The PinePhone Pro has a faster CPU than the original PinePhone, but I would still not expect miracles. The speed also comes at the expense of energy consumption and heat dissipation (which is the main reason the PinePhone Pro is thicker than the original PinePhone).
I guess whether full HD is doable or not may also depend on the codec, some are more computation-intensive than others. But as a rule of thumb, high resolutions such as full HD are likely to stutter because the CPU cannot keep up. (I do not think hardware-accelerated decoding is working at this time.) You will notice it quickly if you try. But I also have only the original PinePhone, so I cannot try it on the Pro for you, maybe someone else in this forum can.
In any case, the phone will definitely get at least as hot as with the lower resolution, because the higher the resolution, the more work it has to do.
And since the physical display resolution is only 1440×720, you are probably better off using a lower resolution if it exists, or downscaling the video beforehand (if possible on a computer, because it will be much faster at reencoding the video).
I guess whether full HD is doable or not may also depend on the codec, some are more computation-intensive than others. But as a rule of thumb, high resolutions such as full HD are likely to stutter because the CPU cannot keep up. (I do not think hardware-accelerated decoding is working at this time.) You will notice it quickly if you try. But I also have only the original PinePhone, so I cannot try it on the Pro for you, maybe someone else in this forum can.
In any case, the phone will definitely get at least as hot as with the lower resolution, because the higher the resolution, the more work it has to do.
And since the physical display resolution is only 1440×720, you are probably better off using a lower resolution if it exists, or downscaling the video beforehand (if possible on a computer, because it will be much faster at reencoding the video).