#Hardware mpeg 2 decoder serial number
#Hardware mpeg 2 decoder drivers
#Hardware mpeg 2 decoder software
#Hardware mpeg 2 decoder license

Due to relatively low computational complexity this standard gained popularity and massive native implementations in video hardware. Elecard MPEG-2 Decoder can process DVD Subpicture, Closed Captions (DVD, ATSC. MPEG-2 is a video coding format, first standardized in 1995 and revised in 2013. For us, a few quid is ok, but if they made a million units that is ВЈ3.6million extra they have to spend on something only a fraction of people will use. DVD decoder, streaming components, and demultiplexer comprised in the pack are Microsoft DirectShow compatible. Raspberry Pi did not include this to keep costs down.

#Hardware mpeg 2 decoder serial number

The en/decoder libraries will request these and pass them into the hardware where they will be resolved on that chip if the key matches the serial number and is valid you will be allowed to use the exposed API (I can see this getting hacked very quickly).

#Hardware mpeg 2 decoder license

The license will be a file you place somewhere or a key you define as a global variable for the system.

#Hardware mpeg 2 decoder software

You do not need this license and can use software versions. It talks directly to the Video Memory (decoding) or RAM (encoding) making it nice and smooth. Hardware Video Decoder Capabilities GPU Architecture MPEG-1 & MPEG-2 VC-1 & MPEG-4 H.264/AVCHD H.265/HEVC VP8 VP9 AV1 Fermi (GF1xx) Maximum Resolution: 4080x4080 Maximum Resolution: 2048x1024. Hardware en/decoders are much faster and do not rely on the core CPU to process these files rather the GPU is used to process the files. Video Decoder Capabilities Table 1 shows the codec support and capabilities of the hardware video decoder for each GPU architecture.

For an extra ВЈ1.20 you can decode VC-1 video, ie Microsoft's Silverlight Video.

Vendors must supply either a DirectShow-compatible software decoder for each required DVD data stream, or provide a WDM streaming-compatible DVD decoder minidriver to support their DVD hardware decoders. The various types of MPEG-2 decoder may be broadly classified as shown below: Software MPEG-2 Decoders.

For an extra ВЈ2.40 you can watch MPEG2 video, ie DVD's are encoded in MPEG2! Microsoft does not provide MPEG-2 or AC-3 software/hardware decoder filters with Windows XP.

H.264 Encode is enabled in the latest version (Included in Pi Price) which is great!.

this implies that it does support 'purevideo hd' but doesn't say what version, however i think the 'HD' means 264.ДЄlso i think overall, nvidia is a bit quiet about VP2 and purevideo decoding since i believe they've had to keep it disabled entirely in Vista because of driver/drive model issues.The license enables you to decode and encode (where applicable) the mentioned media types using the built in hardware encoders/decoders. It also makes use of the hardware decoding features offered by many gfx-cards. Microsoft integrated a very good codec into Windows 7, which is able to play MPEG-2 videos.

3rd party codecs Windows 7 integrated codec.

#Hardware mpeg 2 decoder drivers

I currently have a 8800GTS 512M which seems to support VP2, however i received no acceleration with that component, i either need to get a newer quick time (if there is one with the new macbooks) or some new nvidia drivers from that build (anyone care to share?).Д®dit: i've done a bit more research and i think the 8800gt does support vp2. It is a good decoder which provides MPEG-2 playback out of the box. Here's a chart showing which models support what: Too bad nvidia only implemented vp2 on lower end nvidia hard and on only some of the more recent or higher ends (8800gt doesnt have it, however the 8800GTS 512M does have it). And reading this article (which is a bit dated) answers a bunch of things about VP2 with h264 decoding: