Raspberry Pi - $35 Linux computer
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Good if you order from Farnell, should take a week or less.
Mine just arrived today - ordered from Farnell on the 8th. Shame I haven't got anything to power it with yet, the phone charger hasn't arrived yet.
I have dug up a weird looking plug that I can plug a USB-A to Micro-USB cable into that's rated at 5.1V and 700mA. Reckon that would work? It's the extra 0.1V I find slightly off putting, as well as the fact that it looks like a cheap and nasty adapter cobbled together in a hurry.
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Spoke too soon, the correct adapter has just arrived in a second Royal Mail delivery.
I have dug up a weird looking plug that I can plug a USB-A to Micro-USB cable into that's rated at 5.1V and 700mA. Reckon that would work? It's the extra 0.1V I find slightly off putting, as well as the fact that it looks like a cheap and nasty adapter cobbled together in a hurry.
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Spoke too soon, the correct adapter has just arrived in a second Royal Mail delivery.
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Yeah, they're nice.
Only got one as there's no slot for the camera ribbon, but I suppose if nothing better comes along I'll just buy another ModMyPi case and mill a small slot out of the top or side.
Although if the cable is long enough I might be able to squeeze it through the SD card slot...
Only got one as there's no slot for the camera ribbon, but I suppose if nothing better comes along I'll just buy another ModMyPi case and mill a small slot out of the top or side.
Although if the cable is long enough I might be able to squeeze it through the SD card slot...
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My pi seems very slow all round, is anyone else having any issues like that?
I have installed the recommended software to my SD card (for noobs).
Also its a 16GB card but for some reason after that software has been put on ive only got 324mb free from 1.8GB apparently.
Anyone have any ideas?
I have installed the recommended software to my SD card (for noobs).
Also its a 16GB card but for some reason after that software has been put on ive only got 324mb free from 1.8GB apparently.
Anyone have any ideas?
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Need to expand the partition to gain your free space back.
Run raspi-config and its an option in there, proper name of it slips my mind!
Have any of you seen this? http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1839
You can buy licenses to use MPEG-2 and VC-1 hardware decoding now, as well as support for H.264 encoding!
You can buy licenses to use MPEG-2 and VC-1 hardware decoding now, as well as support for H.264 encoding!
So the hardware has been capable of doing it all this time but was 'locked'?
It may be cheap but artificial limitations are quite pathetic tbh and if it costs them no more to include hardware acceleration then i can't see how they justify adding the addition cost, it reminds me of how sky used to charge £10 extra for recording yet was purely a function of the hardware, it's just wrong.
It may be cheap but artificial limitations are quite pathetic tbh and if it costs them no more to include hardware acceleration then i can't see how they justify adding the addition cost, it reminds me of how sky used to charge £10 extra for recording yet was purely a function of the hardware, it's just wrong.
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They didn't think many people would use their boards for this, accepted people did want this and used their boards for media centres. They knew adding in a licence would raise the price by 10%, something they didn't want to do when they knew not everyone would use the boards for that kind of thing so adding 10% to the licence was to penalise people who'd never use that functionality. This way those who want a licence for MPEG-2 can buy it for a small price, those who don't want/need it, aren't having to pay an extra 10% on the price of a board.So the hardware has been capable of doing it all this time but was 'locked'?
It may be cheap but artificial limitations are quite pathetic tbh and if it costs them no more to include hardware acceleration then i can't see how they justify adding the addition cost, it reminds me of how sky used to charge £10 extra for recording yet was purely a function of the hardware, it's just wrong.
The H.264 being made available for free when it was always free is a bit of an oversight I think.
Yes the hardware had the capability, but if you want to rage, rage at the owners of mpeg-2 who require these fees to be paid for the license - it's not rpi's fault.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2#Patent_holders
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2#Patent_holders
It wasn't directed at the raspberry pi people, the chip maker/codec owners should let it be used for free here but the real issue is artificial limitations are wrong, there are better ways to make money, if it costs little to add it to the chip and is already in all their chips then that should be part of the deal they had with them, shouldn't have anything to do with raspberry pi or their users.
Anyway moving on, anyone use raspbmc and have a Panasonic plasma tv? It seems cec is only half working, play/pause etc doesn't yet i can move around menus fine?
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anywhere selling these things ready to rock and roll, maybe in a case too?
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nick.lidgett - I heard you can get them in maplins now\very soon. I'm not sure about a case but they have got Pi's + a kit with all the bits you'll likely need
Radiation - Saying that "artificial limitations are wrong" is rather silly. The people who invested time and money to make something "should let it be used for free"? Is your time free? If you work do you expect to be paid?
The chip manufacturer (broadcom) has sensibly built in support for technology that can be switched on and off (depending upon licencing). This means that if a particular technology in not required then it can be sold without that license more cheaply. This means that ONLY the people who need a technology have to pay for it. The is WAY fairer than everyone having to pay for stuff they won't use.
I would also congratulate the Pi Foundation for the selling price on these codecs. It would have been very easy for them to round these prices up to a fiver to help fill up the foundations bank account. They chose not to, and to sell for the lowest they could. If only others had the same attitude.
Radiation - Saying that "artificial limitations are wrong" is rather silly. The people who invested time and money to make something "should let it be used for free"? Is your time free? If you work do you expect to be paid?
The chip manufacturer (broadcom) has sensibly built in support for technology that can be switched on and off (depending upon licencing). This means that if a particular technology in not required then it can be sold without that license more cheaply. This means that ONLY the people who need a technology have to pay for it. The is WAY fairer than everyone having to pay for stuff they won't use.
I would also congratulate the Pi Foundation for the selling price on these codecs. It would have been very easy for them to round these prices up to a fiver to help fill up the foundations bank account. They chose not to, and to sell for the lowest they could. If only others had the same attitude.
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