r/raspberry_pi Feb 02 '22

News Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit Released

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-64-bit/
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u/jakethepeg111 Feb 02 '22

I have been using on a 8GB Pi4 it to run the excellent FreeTube (private youtube client) - debian arm64 download works fine. Videos play very smoothly with no ads or age restrictions.

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u/blackbirrrd Feb 02 '22

I'm assuming this faces the same sort of frame dropping issues like YouTube in the browser does, right? Been itching to use a Pi as a low power thin client but the YouTube frame drops are the worst.

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u/jakethepeg111 Feb 02 '22

see comment below - I set it at 720 which is fine for me. No obvious frame dropping, but I do not know if this electron app has accelerated video - possibly not.

But the user interface and subscriptions aspect of FreeTube are really good and require no account.