Raspberry Pi video capabilities

A quick look at a pre-production Raspberry Pi board and in particular the video output capabilities, showing an HD video running in Linux from an SD card. You can find out much more about this cool project at http://www.raspberrypi.org and look at their FAQ to learn the details. They also blogged about the details of this video.

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[espdp2]

TRIPOD and MICROPHONE!!!

[Andy Piper]

yes, exactly the kind of things you have on hand at random at a tech event. If I'd had them, I would have used them. Gimme a break.

[bigun89]

What player are you using here?

[Andy Piper]

for the 48,000th time. Read the comments. This was on a pre-production board last year and I can't remember what they were using for playback. It was raw on the hardware not in X. You can now enable the codecs via a paid upgrade and get a general player app on Raspbian I think. You are best asking on the raspberrypi forums.

[Declan Thomas]

I Do agree with you, but there is no reason to start swearing.

[phillips1012]

._.

[Petar Todorovski]

What if I put I5 processor instead of that ARM will it work then?

[phillips1012]

You can't run directX or even windows (doesn't effect me as a linux user) on the pi, due to it's ARM11 architecture.

[Rockescer]

Do not feed the troll guys.

[Andy Piper]

NO. It will not.

You cannot run Windows on a Pi because there is no Windows build for ARM (except Windows 8 RT which only ships on tablets). Therefore there is no DirectX for Pi.

You can run Quake 3 (on Linux) with no issues at all and get really good graphics and framerate - but not a modern game that needs e.g. Direct X and OS X or Windows. Sorry.

[Petar Todorovski]

But if we install latest DirectX and GPU drivers I think BF3 might work.

[daynater]

DUDE

NO GAMES THAT ARE CPU DEMANDING WILL WORK. AND YES I TESTED IT SO SHUSH

[Theforumsguy]

R.I.P headphone users....

[Petar Todorovski]

why?

[Riebulka Ryzis]

Youre fucking stupid