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[ILUG] Raspberry Pi

[ILUG] Raspberry Pi

Michael Jonker michael at openpoint.ie
Wed Mar 14 18:26:48 GMT 2012


I stand corrected!

On 14/03/12 14:13, stephen mulcahy wrote:
> On 14/03/12 14:04, Michael Jonker wrote:
>> IMHO:
>>
>> Rasberry Pi was not designed to handle multimedia - this is reflected in
>> the price also.
>
> That is incorrect
>
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs
>
> "What SoC are you using?
>
> The SoC is a Broadcom BCM2835. This contains an ARM1176JZFS, with 
> floating point, running at 700Mhz, and a Videocore 4 GPU. The GPU is 
> capable of BluRay quality playback, using H.264 at 40MBits/s. It has a 
> fast 3D core accessed using the supplied OpenGL ES2.0 and OpenVG 
> libraries."
>
> "How powerful is it?
>
> The GPU provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and 
> 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode."
>
> the pi has been demonstrated running xbmc and could make for a very 
> good platform for a htpc - it remains to be seen,
>
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/571
>
> You are correct that the quality of the hd decoding may depend on the 
> size of the file and codec used but initial results look promising. 
> We'll know more when we get some of thse into our sweaty hands!
>
>
> -stephen
>
>



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