Why does the Raspberry Pi need a MPEG-2 licence? Ask Question 39. Since August 24 2012, it is possible to buy a licence to hardware-decode MPEG-2 videos. Here are my questions. Raspberry Pi did not include this to keep costs down. For us, a few quid is ok, but if they made a million units that is £3.6million extra they have to spend on.
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Hi AllI have owned a Pi since the release date so I am fairly familiar with it but I can't for the life of me get the MPEG2 license to work! I'm almost certain its something I'm doing wrong since I can't find anyone else with the same issue...
So this is what I done to install it:
SSH'd to my Pi and run 'sudo nano /boot/config.txt'
Paste the license from the email at the end of the file
Hit CTRL+X to save changes, confirmed the overwrite
Rebooted.I have run vcgencmd codec_enabled mpg2 many times and I cant get it to be enabled.
I should probably also mention this is a clean install, no overclock, new SD card & I have double checked the serial used was correct.
Can anyone shed some light on this weird occurrence?
Thanks in advance,
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Wayne