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echo: rberrypi
to: PHILOSOPHER
from: JAN PANTELTJE
date: 2018-04-27 13:05:00
subject: Re: Rassberry/Pi Noob Que

On a sunny day (Fri, 27 Apr 2018 13:16:17 +0100) it happened The Natural
Philosopher  wrote in :

>On 26/04/18 08:01, Charles Stephenson wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I'm very curious about the 'Pi', I'm curious, is there a built in graphics
>> card, or is there some sort of device needed for video? I Noticed there are
a
>> few USB ports, networking ports on a few I've read about. These little
>> systems seem pretty neat, as I'm thinking about moving my BBS off of a 'big'
>> box onto a PI system, Looks 'cheap' and easy to maintain too.
>>
>> Thanks for any info
>>
>> Charles
>>
>A very good HDMI video - as it was originally designed IIRC for a set
>top box...

Indeed I have 'openelec'running on my very big HD screen playing movies.
You need to (well I did anyways) buy a mpeg2 decoding key from raspberry
and put it in the config file to enable hardware mpeg2 decoding.

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