XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 06:19:06 GMT, Jan Panteltje wrote:   
      
   > In the old days I had to buy a decoder key from Raspberry to even look   
   > at mpeg!   
      
   Presumably that was only to activate the decoder hardware. Otherwise   
   FFmpeg, VLC etc could play it just fine, just with a bit more CPU usage.   
      
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