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paxswill on July 15, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: $99 ARM-based PC runs either Ubuntu or Android

The GPU in the RasPi is very good. In fact, the system should properly be viewed as a GPU with a CPU grafted onto it. It's common for 1080p24 H.264 to be decoded on it, and there are options to license MPEG2 and VC-1 accelerated decoding as well.

johnchristopher on July 15, 2013 [–]

Too bad MPEG-2 licence on the rPi doesn't make it (yet) easily play DVD.

jevinskie on July 16, 2013 | [–]

Has anyone tried to do a timing attack on the MPEG-2 decoder license check? Is the check done in HW or a software-based hardware abstraction library?

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