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OMXPlayer vs Varnish

A side-by-side look at OMXPlayer and Varnish. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

OMXPlayer

OMXPlayer

Video & Movies

OMXPlayer is a command line media player for the Raspberry Pi. It was developed specifically for the Raspberry Pi's GPU to allow it to efficiently play high definition video files.

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Varnish

Varnish

Network & Admin

Varnish is an open source web application accelerator designed to speed up websites by caching and optimizing content delivery. It sits in front of web servers and caches frequently-accessed content, reducing requests to backend servers.

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