2013-10-31, 16:31
(2013-10-31, 15:09)doveman2 Wrote: Oh, if only life were that simple!. My brother gets a lot of clips from downloads or sent to him I guess, so he's not responsible for and can't control how they're encoded. With his old PC, he had that hooked up to the TV and could play all these clips fine but now with his RPi he can't play half of them, so it doesn't seem like progress to him and it does seem rather sucky that the RPI can't play them. Is this because they use a proprietary codec that isn't available for the RPi or is there some fundamental technical hardware reason they can't be decoded or could in theory a codec be available in future that would decode them on the RPi?
The Pi decodes video with a hardware block designed to support common standards.
There is no way it can decode proprietry formats it wasn't designed for.
