The Exciting Update to Raspberry Pi OS: A Closer Look at Video Playback and Printer Integration

I'm actually gonna print something real quick let me go ahead and see if i can just print oh i don't want to print okay hold on one second i was going to print a picture but i don't want to waste that much ink so we'll just go to text editor and let's see do we have print options here print my canon downstairs and print and it looks like that worked and it worked out just fine i don't want to waste that much ink so we'll just go to text editor and let's see do we have print options here print. As you can see, it works great and I know this isn't a big deal for a lot of people but to have this built into raspberry pi os after using it for so long it kind of is a big deal.

This new update has some really cool features that are going to make life easier for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts. The first thing I want to test is YouTube video playback, which has always been a bit of an issue on the Raspberry Pi. So, let's open up Chromium and play with some videos. We'll start with 1080p at 24fps and see how it goes. Full screen it so if we take a look up in the top left hand corner these are our drop frames and of course we are getting some drops going on but I'm going to tell you right now that this is nothing compared to how it used to be 11 drop frames out of 500 and it's continuously going without dropping anymore even with hacks and special browsers we really haven't had this kind of YouTube video playback at 1080p out of the Raspberry Pi 4 yet. This is really awesome, I'm definitely going to test a couple more here so this was 1080p 24fps let's find the 60fps video.

Let's play and as you can see we're getting a ton of drop frames it's definitely not as bad as it used to be but uh you will notice those kind of drop frames with the naked eye. So, I'll try to minimize the number of drop frames by using a lower resolution. 720p 60 isn't looking great here let's try 720 60 and even at 7 20 60 we're still getting a ton of drop frames now if it wasn't so many i mean we're at 300 out of a thousand then i'd say it was good to go but that's just way too many frames to be dropping. One thing I can do here instead of 1080p 60, I can disable 60fps video and try 1080p 30 and see how it does with that.

So, that's actually kind of odd, I'm using H.264.ifi and I have blocked 60 fps video here but unfortunately with this enabled I can only go up to 720p. It's kind of odd so I'll just go full screen with it and see what it does at 720p 30. And something like this would be perfectly watchable, 20 out of 500 ain't bad at all but I was really hoping for some decent 60 fps playback on the Raspberry Pi 4 with this new Raspberry Pi OS update. I can tell you with 100 confidence that it is better than it used to be but it's still not great performance in my opinion.

Now, as we've seen, 1080p 24fps videos are going to be perfectly watchable but if you want to do anything at 1080p 60 through YouTube, you're going to get a lot of dropped frames like we just saw. Either way, look at it this is still a great update for the Raspberry Pi 4 we have that pulse audio we also have those printer settings built in so we can easily connect to our printer and print our documents out.

In conclusion, while this new update does not meet my expectations for video playback on the Raspberry Pi 4, it's still a significant improvement over previous versions of the OS. The addition of printer integration and pulse audio is a big win for users who want to take full advantage of their Raspberry Pi's capabilities. If you're looking for better video playback, I would recommend enabling H.264.ifi in your browser, as this will give you smoother playback at lower resolutions.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys the cta prime back here again we got some good news about raspberry pi os from the raspberry pi foundation recently and we're going to take a look at some of the new changes i'm going to do some testing here but before we get started i did kind of just want to go over a few things that have changed with raspberry pi os this is the december 2020 update i will leave a link to the raspberry pi foundation's blog in the description so you can go ahead and read through all of this but it looks like a really awesome update for all the raspberry pi os users out there like myself so first up main thing chromium browser is now version 84. it's been updated and along with this update they've done a lot of testing and now we're actually seeing some pretty good video playback in youtube now this has been one of my main gripes about the raspberry pi force since it released we have had really horrible youtube video playback on the pi 4 even overclocked there were some tweaks out there that you could do to get a little better out of it but hopefully this update fixes all of that they've also done a lot of testing with microsoft teams google meet and zoom so they should run a lot smoother on the raspberry pi using chromium like i mentioned i'm not going to be going over all of the changes just some more notable ones and stuff that we can test in this video real quick but another big change here has to do with the audio of raspberry pi os they've swapped over to pulse audio and from now on with future updates it will be using pulse audio back in the day we were using alsa and there's a lot about that right here you can go ahead and read through this like i mentioned but i've personally preferred pulse audio on a lot of my linux devices especially when it comes to arm single board computers i think i get better quality out of it and it could be just a placebo effect but from now on the raspberry pi 4 running raspberry pi os will be using pulse audio and finally something that's important to a lot of people especially in the times we're in right now printing it's really been hit or miss on the raspberry pi believe it or not there were third-party applications that you could download in raspberry pi os and get your printer up and working wirelessly or wired it's really up to you and the main one was called cups but now a lot of this has been integrated into raspberry pi os and once you're updated you should be able to see your home printers now i have one of those wi-fi printers i got kids and we're always having to print documents because we're doing homeschooling and things like that are not exactly homeschooling but school from home which is a horrible situation that we've been in because of the times we're in right now and to have the printing capabilities built into raspberry pi os it's just going to make life easier on a lot of people who use a raspberry pi let's see as their main desktop so yeah i mean there's some other stuff that's changing here we have some new accessibility features and things like that but all you need to do to update it's super simple from terminal you're gonna run sudo apt update and sudo apt full upgrade so i'm gonna go ahead and do that now because i'm on an older version of raspberry pi os i'll let it finish up and then we're gonna test some youtube video playback and then we're gonna go in and see if i can connect to my in-home printer which is connected through my wi-fi network so like i mentioned super easy to update make sure you're connected over wi-fi or ethernet you're going to go ahead and open up terminal you can do it from the top here or press control alt t on your keyboard then we're going to type in sudo apt update press enter it's going to fetch everything we need give it a little time to finish up once the app update is finished we're going to type in sudo apt full upgrade press enter and it's now going to upgrade raspberry pi os might prompt you type y enter and let it finish this could take a little while depending on your internet connection but as soon as it's finished we're just going to type in sudo reboot or we can use the drop down here and reboot our system then we'll be on the latest version of raspberry pi os i'm gonna let this finish up and then we'll be back with the fully updated system alright so here we are i'm fully updated with this version of raspberry pi os very first thing i wanted to check out were these new print settings so from the drop down we're going to head to let's say preferences there it is print settings and it's already showing up so yeah that is pretty awesome i'm actually gonna print something real quick let me go ahead and see if i can just print oh i don't want to print okay hold on one second i was going to print a picture but i don't want to waste that much ink so we'll just go to text editor and let's see do we have print options here print my canon downstairs and print and it looks like that worked and it worked out just fine i did have to go to the printer and allow this device to print from that printer but as you can see it works great and i know this isn't a big deal for a lot of people but to have this built into raspberry pi os after using it for so long it kind of is a big deal if you're into the raspberry pi and the last thing i want to test is some youtube video playback i'm really excited about this and i hope we get some good performance because this is personally the first time i'm testing with this new update we're going to go ahead and open up chromium so we're going to go ahead and pause it let's take this up as high as we can go and that's 1080p on this one right click stats for nerds full screen it so if we take a look up in the top left hand corner these are our drop frames and of course we are getting some drops going on but i'm going to tell you right now that this is nothing compared to how it used to be 11 drop frames out of 500 and it's continuously going without dropping anymore even with hacks and special browsers we really haven't had this kind of youtube video playback at 1080p out of the raspberry pi 4 yet this is really awesome i'm definitely going to test a couple more here so this was 1080p 24fps let's find the 60fps video all right so here we are 1080p 60fps up here we have our frame counter let's play and as you can see we're getting a ton of drop frames it's definitely not as bad as it used to be but uh you will notice those kind of drop frames with the naked eye so 1080p 60 isn't looking great here let's try 720 60. and even at 7 20 60 we're still getting a ton of drop frames now if it wasn't so many i mean we're at 300 out of a thousand then i'd say it was good to go but that's just way too many frames to be dropping now there is one thing that we can do here instead of 1080p 60 i can disable 60fps video and try 1080p 30 and see how it does with that so that's actually kind of odd i'm using h.264.ifi i have blocked 60 fps video here but unfortunately with this enabled i can only go up to 720p it's kind of odd so i'm just going to go full screen with it and see what it does at 720p 30. and something like this would be perfectly watchable 20 out of 500 ain't bad at all but i was really hoping for some decent 60 fps playback but even at 720p you saw those frames dropping quite a bit so yeah i was really hoping for like a magical jump in 1080p 60fps playback on the raspberry pi 4 with this new raspberry pi os update i can tell you with 100 confidence that it is better than it used to be but it's still not great performance in my opinion now as we saw 1080p 24fps videos are going to be perfectly watchable but if you want to do anything at 1080p 60 through youtube you're going to get a lot of dropped frames like we just saw either way look at it this is still a great update for the raspberry pi 4 we have that pulse audio we also have those printer settings built in so we can easily connect to our printer and print our documents out and when it really comes down to it i would recommend just installing h.264.ifi you can get it from the google chrome store you enable it it's only going to give you 720p 30fps playback on basically any video on youtube but video playback will be way smoother with something like this enabled but that's going to wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching i was really hoping for a giant jump forward for video playback on the pi 4 but unfortunately we got a couple steps but it's still not there yet i will leave a link to the raspberry pi foundation's change log on this new raspberry pi os update if you have any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching youhey what's going on guys the cta prime back here again we got some good news about raspberry pi os from the raspberry pi foundation recently and we're going to take a look at some of the new changes i'm going to do some testing here but before we get started i did kind of just want to go over a few things that have changed with raspberry pi os this is the december 2020 update i will leave a link to the raspberry pi foundation's blog in the description so you can go ahead and read through all of this but it looks like a really awesome update for all the raspberry pi os users out there like myself so first up main thing chromium browser is now version 84. it's been updated and along with this update they've done a lot of testing and now we're actually seeing some pretty good video playback in youtube now this has been one of my main gripes about the raspberry pi force since it released we have had really horrible youtube video playback on the pi 4 even overclocked there were some tweaks out there that you could do to get a little better out of it but hopefully this update fixes all of that they've also done a lot of testing with microsoft teams google meet and zoom so they should run a lot smoother on the raspberry pi using chromium like i mentioned i'm not going to be going over all of the changes just some more notable ones and stuff that we can test in this video real quick but another big change here has to do with the audio of raspberry pi os they've swapped over to pulse audio and from now on with future updates it will be using pulse audio back in the day we were using alsa and there's a lot about that right here you can go ahead and read through this like i mentioned but i've personally preferred pulse audio on a lot of my linux devices especially when it comes to arm single board computers i think i get better quality out of it and it could be just a placebo effect but from now on the raspberry pi 4 running raspberry pi os will be using pulse audio and finally something that's important to a lot of people especially in the times we're in right now printing it's really been hit or miss on the raspberry pi believe it or not there were third-party applications that you could download in raspberry pi os and get your printer up and working wirelessly or wired it's really up to you and the main one was called cups but now a lot of this has been integrated into raspberry pi os and once you're updated you should be able to see your home printers now i have one of those wi-fi printers i got kids and we're always having to print documents because we're doing homeschooling and things like that are not exactly homeschooling but school from home which is a horrible situation that we've been in because of the times we're in right now and to have the printing capabilities built into raspberry pi os it's just going to make life easier on a lot of people who use a raspberry pi let's see as their main desktop so yeah i mean there's some other stuff that's changing here we have some new accessibility features and things like that but all you need to do to update it's super simple from terminal you're gonna run sudo apt update and sudo apt full upgrade so i'm gonna go ahead and do that now because i'm on an older version of raspberry pi os i'll let it finish up and then we're gonna test some youtube video playback and then we're gonna go in and see if i can connect to my in-home printer which is connected through my wi-fi network so like i mentioned super easy to update make sure you're connected over wi-fi or ethernet you're going to go ahead and open up terminal you can do it from the top here or press control alt t on your keyboard then we're going to type in sudo apt update press enter it's going to fetch everything we need give it a little time to finish up once the app update is finished we're going to type in sudo apt full upgrade press enter and it's now going to upgrade raspberry pi os might prompt you type y enter and let it finish this could take a little while depending on your internet connection but as soon as it's finished we're just going to type in sudo reboot or we can use the drop down here and reboot our system then we'll be on the latest version of raspberry pi os i'm gonna let this finish up and then we'll be back with the fully updated system alright so here we are i'm fully updated with this version of raspberry pi os very first thing i wanted to check out were these new print settings so from the drop down we're going to head to let's say preferences there it is print settings and it's already showing up so yeah that is pretty awesome i'm actually gonna print something real quick let me go ahead and see if i can just print oh i don't want to print okay hold on one second i was going to print a picture but i don't want to waste that much ink so we'll just go to text editor and let's see do we have print options here print my canon downstairs and print and it looks like that worked and it worked out just fine i did have to go to the printer and allow this device to print from that printer but as you can see it works great and i know this isn't a big deal for a lot of people but to have this built into raspberry pi os after using it for so long it kind of is a big deal if you're into the raspberry pi and the last thing i want to test is some youtube video playback i'm really excited about this and i hope we get some good performance because this is personally the first time i'm testing with this new update we're going to go ahead and open up chromium so we're going to go ahead and pause it let's take this up as high as we can go and that's 1080p on this one right click stats for nerds full screen it so if we take a look up in the top left hand corner these are our drop frames and of course we are getting some drops going on but i'm going to tell you right now that this is nothing compared to how it used to be 11 drop frames out of 500 and it's continuously going without dropping anymore even with hacks and special browsers we really haven't had this kind of youtube video playback at 1080p out of the raspberry pi 4 yet this is really awesome i'm definitely going to test a couple more here so this was 1080p 24fps let's find the 60fps video all right so here we are 1080p 60fps up here we have our frame counter let's play and as you can see we're getting a ton of drop frames it's definitely not as bad as it used to be but uh you will notice those kind of drop frames with the naked eye so 1080p 60 isn't looking great here let's try 720 60. and even at 7 20 60 we're still getting a ton of drop frames now if it wasn't so many i mean we're at 300 out of a thousand then i'd say it was good to go but that's just way too many frames to be dropping now there is one thing that we can do here instead of 1080p 60 i can disable 60fps video and try 1080p 30 and see how it does with that so that's actually kind of odd i'm using h.264.ifi i have blocked 60 fps video here but unfortunately with this enabled i can only go up to 720p it's kind of odd so i'm just going to go full screen with it and see what it does at 720p 30. and something like this would be perfectly watchable 20 out of 500 ain't bad at all but i was really hoping for some decent 60 fps playback but even at 720p you saw those frames dropping quite a bit so yeah i was really hoping for like a magical jump in 1080p 60fps playback on the raspberry pi 4 with this new raspberry pi os update i can tell you with 100 confidence that it is better than it used to be but it's still not great performance in my opinion now as we saw 1080p 24fps videos are going to be perfectly watchable but if you want to do anything at 1080p 60 through youtube you're going to get a lot of dropped frames like we just saw either way look at it this is still a great update for the raspberry pi 4 we have that pulse audio we also have those printer settings built in so we can easily connect to our printer and print our documents out and when it really comes down to it i would recommend just installing h.264.ifi you can get it from the google chrome store you enable it it's only going to give you 720p 30fps playback on basically any video on youtube but video playback will be way smoother with something like this enabled but that's going to wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching i was really hoping for a giant jump forward for video playback on the pi 4 but unfortunately we got a couple steps but it's still not there yet i will leave a link to the raspberry pi foundation's change log on this new raspberry pi os update if you have any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching you\n"