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2012-12-21, 08:52
(This post was last modified: 2012-12-21, 08:55 by Ned Scott.)
Looks like they're using VP6.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP6
From Wikipedia it sounds like it was once the "flagship" codec for flash videos... back in 2005. VP6 itself was released in 2003 and was even replaced by a better codec, VP7, also in 2005. The Food Network add-on is basically accessing these flash video files and playing them back in XBMC. Food Network needs to update their junk :D
Interesting note, Google acquired the company that made these codecs and released VP8 as a free and open alternative video format in 2010. WebM, Google's video format, uses VP8 for the video codec.
So I guess the real question is if VP6 is even one of the possible hardware decodable codecs for the Pi.
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That's what I was asking in my previous post.. if there was a software decoder for VP6 that we could use for the Pi.