Over the weekend I recorded a video testing some of the formats which I have embedded. I will be bringing my Raspberry Pi to our user group in September if you want to have a go with it in person. If you want to watch DVD files all you need is the MPEG-2 decoder. So if you want to use a Raspberry Pi to watch Windows Media Center recordings you will need the MPEG-2 decoder but unless you want to watch WMV files you don’t need the VC-1 option. * BBC One HD recordings would load but not play correctly, Channel 4 HD worked fine. I tested the formats one at a time with a combination decoder licences installed, here are my results: I also tested WMV (Windows Media Video) files and a un-encrypted DVD file. I used the latest version of Raspbmc and the recordings were taken from a Windows 7 machine with DVB-T2 card. I copied a few files from my Media Center system to an external hard drive (to I could rule out any network issues). So what do you get when your purchase the MPEG-2 decoder and what does the VC-1 decoder do?
Raspberry pi mpeg 2 serial number#
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.
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You open the file and add the lines to the file.
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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. The MPEG-2 option costs £2.40 and the VC-1 codec costs £1.20, you buy the options from the Raspberry Pi store and then they mail you the codes. I am sure there are other ways to go this without using the iPad but it works for me and I now have live TV on my Raspberry Pi.Last week the Raspberry Pi foundation announced you could purchase MPEG-2 and VC-1 decoders for the Raspberry Pi.
Raspberry pi mpeg 2 install#
Select the stream and the channel should play:įor this to work you need to have the mpeg-2 decoder option install (see t his post for details). Then before you select the stream you go the TV Streamer app on the iPad and pick your channel: Then to play live TV via the HDHomerun from the videos selection you can select your tuner: Here you can see the HDHomerun tuners available on your network, I selected the first one: To get XBMC setup with a HDHomerun you need to go to videos and add a video source: When you select a channel on the iPad XBMC can then pickup the stream and play it. The iOS app enables scanning of the channels on the HDHomerun and controlling the tuning. So using the Raspbmc build of XBMC I added the HDHomerun video stream as a source in XBMC and to control the HDHomerun I used an app I have previously tested on the iPad called TV Streamer. The HDHomerun uses mpeg-2 so thought there would be a good chance it should work on the Pi with XBMC.
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Raspberry pi mpeg 2 update#
UPDATE : The built in FFmpeg now had hardware acceleration built in, so you can skip the compilation, or use my helper script to compile it for you with a lot of extras. Getting live TV on the Raspberry Pi has eluded my so far, I have tried various ways and nothing has worked but that was until the Raspberry Pi foundation released the mpeg-2 decoder. If you are just using the raspberry pi camera, or another one with h264 or h265 built in support, you can use the distribution version of ffmpeg instead. Áttervezésre került a nyomtatott áramkör, valamint a GPIO tüskesor 26 lábról 40-re emelkedett, de az els 26 lábkiosztása nem változott, így a RaspBerry Pi B+ kompatibilis maradt az eldmodellel, így a korábbi tervekkel is használható, nem szükséges az átdolgozás. UPDATE: I have now got this working all on the Raspberry Pi without needing the ipad -> see this post A Raspberry Pi B+ a RaspBerry Pi B továbbfejlesztett változata.