A good comparison between the Odroid C1 and the new RPi 2: http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/02/02/raspberry-pi-2-odroid-c1-development-boards-comparison/
According to that article the codec licences are not included in the new RPi2 On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Evan Leibovitch <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > >
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