[GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 2 with new chip

[Tim Tisdall]

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 <evan at telly.org> wrote:

> 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.
>>
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