- #Raspberry pi mpeg 2 codec hack drivers
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I own a PI and have to agree.for $40 (w/ shipping) I guess I can't complain about the product too much, but it's not as baked as it should be for the market they are trying to reach. both of which use Mail400 graphics (which could allow for use of OSS Lima drivers) Raspberry Pi Video Decoder I'm tempted to give them a nomination for a 'VIA like marketing dishonesty' award.Īs for interesting competition that is within the $100 range of the rpi, there is the ODROID-X ($130) and the Cubieboard ($50). Second, recently they've been outright dishonest (in regards to an OSS gpu driver) and spinsters, so I question just how principled they really are after all.
both of which use Mail400 graphics (which could allow for use of OSS Lima drivers)
#Raspberry pi mpeg 2 codec hack license
Raspberry Pi Mpeg2 License FreeSecond, recently they've been outright dishonest (in regards to an OSS gpu driver) and spinsters, so I question just how principled they really are after all. If not for them, then someone else would have fallen into their place. Still an interesting technical achievement for free-speech-ish hardware, though shortsighted on the GPU selection re: freedom.I'll give them credit for having helping to push interest in this area of computing, but not too much, as it is evident that there was plenty of movement in this direction already anyway. The current RPi is shaping up to be simply an Arduino alternative.
#Raspberry pi mpeg 2 codec hack software
Moral of the story- to ensure functionality with FOSS software and drivers, you need multicore ~1.6GHz MINIMUM to cover CPU decoding of common video codecs.
IMO, the current RPi is not a good choice as a general purpose media center- maybe a decent music player/server, but not for video playback and fancy frontend GUI's. Still an interesting technical achievement for free-speech-ish hardware, though shortsighted on the GPU selection re: freedom. There are far better alternatives (though more costly) to the RPi, with dual or quad cores and better GPU's. But they should have picked a more FOSS friendly GPU for such a high profile project that touts user freedoms. The RPi team gets a lot of credit for what's been accomplished so far, and applying software FOSS principles to the hardware design has been a worthy goal. I assume the RPi in its current form would be useless for playing even SD Flash video:
#Raspberry pi mpeg 2 codec hack driver
I've avoided the Rpi for these reasons- the CPU is too low power to decode common video codecs using FOSS MPEG2 decoders, and there's no FOSS driver for the Broadcom GPU used on the board yet, so no hardware decode assist. which defeats the point of the RPi, at least for HTPC/media playback use.
#Raspberry pi mpeg 2 codec hack drivers
Which apparently doesn't have FOSS drivers for the MPEG2/VC1 decoding yet, hence the license needed to get the GPU hardware decoding working. GPU: Broadcom VideoCore IV, OpenGL ES 2.0, MPEG-2 and VC-1 (with license), 1080p30 h.264/MPEG-4 AVC high-profile decoder and encoder
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