Re: Building media player for RPI4 : which one to focus on?

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 03:11:10PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
>> So far I was using Raspbian. Using any player other than either omx or vlc
>> (CPU usage is very less when these two run) the CPU used to get heated up
>> for videos of 1080p played for over a few minutes, resulting in
>> thermometer symbol appearing. I do not have a heatsink or a fan.
>
>BTW, on NetBSD, for pkgsrc builds, if I use MAKE_JOBS=4 I run into over
>heating, indicated by dmesg messages. But with MAKE_JOBS=3 and load
>average around 3 for extended periods of time I haven't faced the heating
>issue.
>
>So I wonder why I used to face it so often on Raspbian when viewing
>videos with non accelerated players that were using single CPU. Can high
>rate of transfer to video memory cause heating?

Get a heatsink.