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Originally posted by muncrief View PostI bought an Athlon 5370 APU for $60 way back in June 2016 and it's still the reliable beating heart of my home theater system. They were the last in the Kabini line, and were only available for a year or so, so I'm really glad I snagged one.
I'd be happy to upgrade to a more modern APU though, but only if it improved the ability to natively play Blu-rays. There are some workarounds, like MakeMKV libraries, that work most of the time on my current system, but if a newer AMD APU could finally enable all the ridiculous DRM stuff to work reliably I'd definitely invest in it. But it seems like even Intel is deprecating some Blu-ray support now, so my quest may be a lost cause.
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Originally posted by Go_Vulkan View PostThe problem is called "old system BIOS"! There are still far too many people who think BIOS updates were just made for the fun of it.
In addition to issues like this, they also fix security holes!
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Originally posted by Black_Fox View Post
See this for why Pluton is not really a risk for the foreseeable future, especially if you don't run Windows: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/58125.html
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Originally posted by muncrief View PostI bought an Athlon 5370 APU for $60 way back in June 2016 and it's still the reliable beating heart of my home theater system. They were the last in the Kabini line, and were only available for a year or so, so I'm really glad I snagged one.
I'd be happy to upgrade to a more modern APU though, but only if it improved the ability to natively play Blu-rays. There are some workarounds, like MakeMKV libraries, that work most of the time on my current system, but if a newer AMD APU could finally enable all the ridiculous DRM stuff to work reliably I'd definitely invest in it. But it seems like even Intel is deprecating some Blu-ray support now, so my quest may be a lost cause.
On the BluRay problem: This is a generic problem of BluRays and their digital restriction management. You generally have to resort to means like makemkv to watch under linux. iirc. there once has been one single program that was officially sold (in Japan??) that enabled direct BluRay playing. Also on W32 you need certain tools to play it, simply VLC won't do it. So your APU is likely not the faulty part since it just accelerates the video stream afterwards. And Kabinis do have x264 support.
Please blame the content mafia.Stop TCPA, stupid software patents and corrupt politicians!
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Originally posted by Alex/AT View PostAnd add a bunch of new.Last edited by Go_Vulkan; 05 March 2022, 09:32 AM.
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