2012-08-24, 19:56
I can't wait to get my Raspberry Pi, and will give him this gift! The MPEG2 license! :-D
(2012-08-24, 22:37)slicemaster Wrote: Wow, I am so glad they finally broke down and admitted they underestimated the community's desire for MPEG2...
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...Pivos who has had the media center community in mind from the get go
(2012-08-24, 22:47)MilhouseVH Wrote:(2012-08-24, 22:37)slicemaster Wrote: Wow, I am so glad they finally broke down and admitted they underestimated the community's desire for MPEG2...
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...Pivos who has had the media center community in mind from the get go
I'm not sure they underestimated anything, apart from overwhelming sales, as the focus of the Raspberry Pi Foundation has never been on the media center market but always on education.
However if you want to use a Pi as a media center, you can now choose to lay out the extra £3.60 and take advantage of all the hardware acceleration. And if you just want to use the Pi for education (the purpose for which it was created) you don't have to pay for licences that you are not using. Best of both worlds, IMHO.
Anyone complaining about the lack of codec support in the Pi and the need to pay extra should, for the sake of equality, try complaining to Pivos about their lack of educational funding and schools curriculum packages, and see how far that gets them!
(2012-08-24, 22:47)MilhouseVH Wrote: I'm not sure they underestimated anything, apart from overwhelming sales, as the focus of the Raspberry Pi Foundation has never been on the media center market but always on education.
However if you want to use a Pi as a media center, you can now choose to lay out the extra £3.60 and take advantage of all the hardware acceleration. And if you just want to use the Pi for education (the purpose for which it was created) you don't have to pay for licences that you are not using. Best of both worlds, IMHO.
Anyone complaining about the lack of codec support in the Pi and the need to pay extra should, for the sake of equality, try complaining to Pivos about their lack of educational funding and schools curriculum packages, and see how far that gets them!
(2012-08-25, 19:19)j1nx Wrote: Maybe they talked about the DVD menu's not being able to be decode on the hardware?
(2012-08-25, 21:17)davilla Wrote: maybe you should believe what I say on Pivos forums about DVD/ISOs. I am, after all, an XBMC dev who knows what goes on inside XBMC quite well. DVD nav is a big issue with hw decode, very problematic, in fact even FFMpeg has issues which is why we use libmpeg2 for decode....