[GRLUG] another Raspberry Pi article

[Richard Nienhuis]

Actually the broadcom chip they are using can do 1080p encoding as well.
 They just have not implemented that yet.  I expect people will come out
with some sort of implementation shortly after the board ships.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:11 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:30:26PM -0500, Mike Williams wrote:
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/28/raspberry_pi/
> >
> > I want at least one of these critters.
> >
> > From the article, " Users can run Debian, Fedora and ArchLinux ARM
> > GNU/Linux distributions on the Pi, although not Ubuntu at this
>
> I am amazed that it can decode 1080p video.  This thing is amazing.  I
> want one to put next to the television with a large USB drive attached.
>
> I read somewhere that the $25 price tag (though this article says $35)
> is for the board itself.  Even with a case this thing can't be more than
> $40 or so.  Even for $50 that's a great price for what it can do.
>
> > time."   (So it does belong in this here mailing list)
>
> Why wouldn't it?
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