Raspberry Pi

[ThomserveBAS]

There are now licenses available to enable hardware decoding of MPEG2 and VC-1 video formats.

Costs £3.60 in total for both!!

Raspberry Pi Store

Hardware encoding of MPEG4 has also been enabled for free.

[SupremeSpod]

There are now licenses available to enable hardware decoding of MPEG2 and VC-1 video formats.

Costs £3.60 in total for both!!

Raspberry Pi Store

Hardware encoding of MPEG4 has also been enabled for free.

Yep, if you need the licenses then you can add them. Rather than making us all pay a blanket fee. Good idea imho.

When "Huey" comes back from being repaired - don't ask... I shall set up the media server and pay for the licenses.

[SupremeSpod]

Deep Joy!

Huey is coming back from the menders today!

<Insert Deity of choice here> bless you RS components!



I hope Huey has a "Samsung" RAM chip fitted...

[chef]

So Huey is now fixed, what about Duey and Louey, what are they currently up to?

[SupremeSpod]

Boomed!!!

Raspberry Pi | An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte!

For all you "Power Users"...

Since launch, we’ve supported overclocking and overvolting your Raspberry Pi by editing config.txt. Overvolting provided more overclocking headroom, but voided your warranty because we were concerned it would decrease the lifetime of the SoC; we set a sticky bit inside BCM2835 to allow us to spot boards which have been overvolted.
We’ve been doing a lot of work to understand the impact of voltage and temperature on lifetime, and are now able to offer a “turbo mode”, which dynamically enables overclock and overvolt under the control of a cpufreq driver, without affecting your warranty. We are happy that the combination of only applying turbo when busy, and limiting turbo when the BCM2835′s internal temperature reaches 85°C, means there will be no measurable reduction in the lifetime of your Raspberry Pi.
You can now choose from one of five overclock presets in raspi-config, the highest of which runs the ARM at 1GHz. The level of stable overclock you can achieve will depend on your specific Pi and on the quality of your power supply; we suggest that Quake 3 is a good stress test for checking if a particular level is completely stable. If you choose too high an overclock, your Pi may fail to boot, in which case holding down the shift key during boot up will disable the overclock for that boot, allowing you to select a lower level.
What does this mean? Comparing the new image with 1GHz turbo enabled, against the previous image at 700MHz, nbench reports 52% faster on integer, 64% faster on floating point and 55% faster on memory.

[Sysman]

$99 Raspberry Pi-sized “supercomputer” touted in Kickstarter project

Parallel computing for everyone promised with 16- and 64-core boards.

Adapteva calls it “Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone,” a 16-core board hitting 13GHz and 26 gigaflops performance, costing $99 each. If the $3 million goal is hit, Adapteva will make a $199 64-core board hitting 45GHz and 90 gigaflops. (Adapteva seems to be counting GHz on a cumulative basis, adding up all the cores.) Both include a dual-core ARM A9-based system-on-chip, with the 16- and 64-core RISC chips acting as coprocessors to speed up tasks. The Adapteva architecture hits performance of 70 gigaflops per watt, and 25GHz per watt, the company says.

[Normie]

Pi Update

I've now got one of my Rasp Pi running raspbmc (an XBMC Raspberry Pi port), serving video, music, pictures from my Windows Home Server. Also installed add-ins giving me iPlayer, 4oD, ItvPlayer, and Demand 5. Its tucked away out of sight behind the TV so the wife is happy. Now need to convince her of the need for a surround sound system.

Running very nicely indeed. Tried out a couple of Apps for my Android phone that give a nice remote control interface to XMBC.

[cojak]

I've now got one of my Rasp Pi running raspbmc (an XBMC Raspberry Pi port), serving video, music, pictures from my Windows Home Server. Also installed add-ins giving me iPlayer, 4oD, ItvPlayer, and Demand 5. Its tucked away out of sight behind the TV so the wife is happy. Now need to convince her of the need for a surround sound system.

Running very nicely indeed. Tried out a couple of Apps for my Android phone that give a nice remote control interface to XMBC.

Good grief this is actually starting to sound useful!

Is there anyway a non-technical newbie to this can get started and make anything as useful with a Pi? (It was supposed to be aimed at kids, afterall.)

[SupremeSpod]

Good grief this is actually starting to sound useful!

Is there anyway a non-technical newbie to this can get started and make anything as useful with a Pi? (It was supposed to be aimed at kids, afterall.)

BrewPi | Raspberry Pi

Might pique your interest somewhat...

[geoffreywhereveryoumaybe]

Because you're a Fanny?

It'll be interesting to see how close to $35 they can make it.

Was having a look at this last week - to have something that the kids can play with it seems you have to buy a lot of different equipment: - the pi, SD card, USB hub, keyboard?

Is there any company that packages up a starter kit that contains all that you would need to start with?