Do you still need to pay for a license for add-on codecs? On 4 February 2015 at 09:59, Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 10:23:10PM -0500, [email protected] > wrote: > > I haven't pay much attention to raspberry-pi before. It comes with an > HDMI > > port, is it? > > How fast would it be to play movies from localnetwork, or play youtube > > videos? > > > > From the Official announcement, I saw " NEON-enabled multicore video > codecs > > can be over 20x faster", so would this 20x faster be fast enough for > > playing youtube from a browser? > > Well certainly the new version does support neon as well as vfp3/vfp4. > Of course it also still has the videocore that supports a number of video > decoding options. Certainly doing it by CPU only was hopeless on the > original pi, but that's not what they were doing in general as far as > I know. > > I see > > http://www.raspi.today/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-raspberry-pis-epiphany-web-browser/ > says that the original can play 720p videos from youtube and vimeo. > It may be that the new CPU cores will help it do more than that. > > -- > Len Sorensen > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- Evan Leibovitch Toronto Canada Em: evan at telly dot org Sk: evanleibovitch Tw: el56
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