What benefits are there to getting the license?Stupid question I know, but I've never knowingly used, or seen, anything with mpeg2 or vc1 file extensions or codecs. But I'm having a terrible time getting any mpg4's to play on my Pi.I can't get anything to play, no how I convert it in Handbrake. So am wondering if this license would make a difference?(I mean the actual license, I wouldn't touch this shady script-with-no-decription-or-information-from/about-the-author with annoying neighbur's Pi).
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I wouldn't touch this shady script-with-no-decription-or-information-from/about-the-author with annoying neighbur's PiDude, all it's doing is editing one file. If it doesn't work, put the old file back.
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What's it going to do, trigger a nuclear holocaust? If you're really terrified, make a backup of your SD card before testing it.Also, try running omxplayer to play mpeg files.
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Works fine for the movies I've saved, although the audio is too quiet and bumping it up with the software boost causes static to wipe out the sound entirely. So, I either have to use headphones or just play them on a regular laptop.
Last week the Raspberry Pi foundation. The MPEG-2 option costs £2.40 and the VC-1 codec costs £1.20, you buy the options from the and then they mail you the codes.The codes that the Raspberry Pi foundation email must be added to a file called config.txt which is located on the boot partition of the Pi’s SD card. You open the file and add the lines to the file. You must do this for each image you have built for the Raspberry Pi and the code is linked to the serial number of your Raspberry Pi.So what do you get when your purchase the MPEG-2 decoder and what does the VC-1 decoder do?I copied a few files from my Media Center system to an external hard drive (to I could rule out any network issues). I used the latest version of and the recordings were taken from a Windows 7 machine with DVB-T2 card. Must say I’ve had success playing HD recordings from the BBC (albeit one I recorded a few months ago – naughty, naughty), but I had to overclock the CPU and GPU slightly to make it run smoothly. I guess the differences in bitrates, plus the variation in the audo codecs and channels used, may cause ones milage to vary.I, for one, have been over the moon with what a lovely little MythTV frontend my Raspberry Pi has now become.
Hats off to the RPF for listening to their customers and to the developers of platforms like Raspbmc for putting in the time to make it all happen.
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