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Raspberry Pi lands MPEG-2 and VC-1 decoding through personal licenses, H.264 encoding and CEC tag along. We 've had a few people ask exactly what they can do with the new MPEG-2 and. We’ve had a few people ask exactly what they can do with the new MPEG-2 and VC-1 licences we made available last week for.

I've got a bunch of old DVDs I want to encode and put on my NAS as AVI. I'd like to use my Raspberry Pi Model B for the encoding as I won't miss it if it's out of action for hours/ days/ weeks.

In the past I would have used a (now defunct) old Linux box running Debian and Handbrake. At the hardware end of things I have a USB external DVD reader/writer and a powered USB hub.

What is the best combination of operating system and software to achieve this on the Raspberry Pi? Are there any other considerations around hardware? Or is the Pi CPU to low powered for practical video encoding? First of all its not efficient to rip a DVD on Raspberry Pi. I doubt Raspberry CPU/GPU can handle this without hardware acceleration.

But you can give a shot for Handbrake. Or is the Pi CPU to low powered for practical video encoding?

The GPU on the other hand is made just for that. It is technically possible to decode MPEG-2 and encode h264, all in hardware. Carmine appice realistic rock drum method pdf. You will need a license for MPEG codec from the raspberry fondation (2.79 €), and some software which is being written since december 2012.

NOT READY FOR PRODUCTION YET. You may want to check the raspberry forum thread here: Note: the thread is hidden in the OPENMAX forum, which is dedicated to the language used to operate the GPU. Basically, there is no guide yet, you have to read the whole thread, and then you can try to compile one or another version from the different git repositories. If you don't know what git is, don't even try. Your best bet is Handbrake indeed, or wait until some binary pops up, in a month or in a year. The guys aren't paid for this, you can't even be sure it will ever happen, although I'm quite confident.

DVD Video is packed into MPEG-2 (aka H.222/H.262) as defined by the ITU and referenced at You can buy a hardware This will enable hardware encoding and decoding for any MPEG-2 formats, including your desired DVD containers. The only problem is that there is no software that is capable of using the Broadcom API to fully use the hardware for MPEG-2. The best format to encode to will be in MPEG-4 (aka h264) - The Pi is already licensed to encode and decode to this format using the dedicated hardware. The only problem is getting the data from MPEG-2 directly into MPEG-4 encoders so that the CPU will be idle while the dedicated hardware does all the hard work. Handbrake will only use the CPU so if you don't mind it churning away in the background then thats the best you will get for now.