Raspberry Pi now available to be ordered in bulk

[Vis1/0N]

The processor is a decent GPU with a ARM core cpu tagged into it. RPi foundation paid for licensing H264, but licensing mpeg would have added to the price - AFAIK Mpeg decode functionality is there in the GPU but is locked, therefore the ARM core will soft decode it.

Latest news, for £2.40 you can now get the hardware decode Mpeg functionality - see http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1839.
They also discovered that H.264 encode was already covered with the H264 playback licence. Great news, now I just need support of the $5 webcams that proliferate on ebay.

 

[Speedster]

Anybody know where I can get one locally, or do I need to have one shipped from overseas?

 

[jannievanzyl]

How you finding the performance?

Haven't found it yet...

Menus are very laggy but once the video plays, it's not too shabby. But it's a crappy user experience at the moment.

Suspect we'll need to wait for an optimised build.

 

[AfricanTech]

Haven't found it yet...

Menus are very laggy but once the video plays, it's not too shabby. But it's a crappy user experience at the moment.

Suspect we'll need to wait for an optimised build.

Agree. Rather sluggish experience. Hopefully we'll get that optimized build soon

 

[Elro]

Anybody know where I can get one locally, or do I need to have one shipped from overseas?

+1

http://za.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=raspberrypi says:

'The requested article is expected to be available by 15/12/2012.'

 

[nit3watch]

Hi guys, you can check all the re-seller info and reviews over at http://raspi.co.za. I have listed all the resellers I could find and would be great if we can get some more reviews in.

 

[Praeses]

Hi guys, you can check all the re-seller info and reviews over at http://raspi.co.za. I have listed all the resellers I could find and would be great if we can get some more reviews in.

Nice website. Just enjoyed the youtube videos, was really fun to watch.