I have a pi running pihole next to my retro console TV and would like to make it into an ad blocked YouTube player.

I’ve been looking on and off for a month to figure it out and the only things I find are for RCA cables or for the old way to change resolution from the 2010’s.

  • FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Not sure what it runs natively, but I just set out to use a rpi to replace a machine I moved to another room. Just need it to run a browser and at most watch youtube videos. My rpi2 definitely wasn’t up to the task, so I went to a rpi 3b and unfortunately it isn’t up to the task either as the browser quickly chewed up all 1gb of ram and then used the 1gb of swap to where it came to a grinding halt even trying to open youtube. Plugged in a rpi4 with 8gb of ram and it seems to be doing the job. I have a rpi4 with 4gb, but didn’t even bother trying it. Resolution didn’t seem to be the issue for me, it was space, and possibly sd card speed, but I wasn’t going to fiddle with it too much. The rpi4 is working good and I am typing this reply on it.

  • Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudEnglish
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    1 month ago

    You will struggle with a pi3 and 1080p, I had a pi3 for Kodi and it couldn’t run 1080p very well at all. The pi4 on the other hand, will display 1080p from a TV card just fine.