The license enables you to decode and encode (where applicable) the mentioned media types using the built in hardware encoders/decoders. • H.264 Encode is enabled in the latest version (Included in Pi Price) which is great! • For an extra £2.40 you can watch MPEG2 video, • For an extra £1.20 you can decode VC-1 video, Hardware en/decoders are much faster and do not rely on the core CPU to process these files; rather the GPU is used to process the files. It talks directly to the Video Memory (decoding) or RAM (encoding) making it nice and smooth.

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This key will enable a single Raspberry Pi to decode MPEG-2 video in hardware. You will need to provide your device's internal 16-digit serial number as part of. MPEG LA's MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License provides access to patents that are essential to the MPEG-2 Video and Systems coding standards used in set-top boxes, DVD. Since August 24 2012, it is possible to buy a licence to hardware-decode MPEG-2 videos. Here are my questions: Does it mean that, without this licence, the RPi cannot. Adobe Muse Templates on this page.

The license will be a file you place somewhere or a key you define as a global variable for the system. The en/decoder libraries will request these and pass them into the hardware where they will be resolved on that chip; if the key matches the serial number and is valid you will be allowed to use the exposed API (I can see this getting hacked very quickly). Raspberry Pi did not include this to keep costs down. For us, a few quid is ok, but if they made a million units that is £3.6million extra they have to spend on something only a fraction of people will use.