Seems I will need to upgrade firmware of GPU / recompile my custom kernel for the new MPEG2 decode to work (at least August 8th or newer releases based on post #1883) and I am a bit busy to do so, I shall leave it for the mean time till I am a bit more free to do so…
Place your order now to show support! I ordered mine~~~ġ525: Order placed, confirmation received. New video features! MPEG-2 and VC-1 decode, H.264 encode, CEC support – Our bad.Īt GBP2.4 (only USD3.8, or HKD30), now our beloved RaspberryPi can enjoy full hardware decode with MPEG2 support, which is very important for my usage in DVB TV solutions! Our initial expectation was that most of you would buy the Raspberry Pi for educational purposes, and that you wouldn’t mind that MPEG-2 wasn’t available. Providing that licence would have raised the price of every Raspberry Pi by roughly 10%, and we simply weren’t able to justify that when we held it up against the educational goals of the Foundation. One of the things that we had to regretfully dismiss as an option was an MPEG-2 decode licence for every unit.
If you’ve been following this website since we launched it last summer, you’ll probably be aware that we had to make some hard decisions about exactly what we could include on the Raspberry Pi if we were to meet our extremely low target price. Good one there Team Raspberry Pi, such a nice computer to have and play with, thanks!
P.S: I am having sound issues on my Pi due to some other reasons, didn’t spend the time on fixing it yet, so now local playback at mute, but I am sure I can iron it out next (should related to some ALSA drivers issues) With the new MPEG2 hardware decode license, it plays back at 100% frame rate on the Pi (was like 3fps only without the license) Mumudvb streaming to 2 IP unicast with different TV channel takes about 33% CPU, With the new MPEG2 License, playback on RPi with omxplayer is takes about 23% CPU, vlc on win32 for playback on PC (remote).mumudvb for streaming TV signal to the network.A USB 2.0 Hub with external power supply.Raspberry Pi version B running on 900MHz.The above screenshot is about streaming local TV signal in H.K. Follow by previous post on the MPEG2 license MPEG2 hardware decode license for Raspberry Pi., I get my hands busy putting things together to make use of the Pi.