[GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 2 with new chip

[Evan Leibovitch]

Do you still need to pay for a license for add-on codecs?

On 4 February 2015 at 09:59, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 10:23:10PM -0500, tlugys.ats at spamgourmet.com
> 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
> talk at gtalug.org
> http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
>



-- 
Evan Leibovitch
Toronto Canada

Em: evan at telly dot org
Sk: evanleibovitch
Tw: el56
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://gtalug.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20150204/858b95a6/attachment.html>