On 7 March 2012 13:38, Alan Pope <alan.p...@canonical.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/03/12 13:33, Colin Law wrote: >> Out of interest, in what way is it not open? >> > > It needs a binary blob for the GPU and to boot apparently. They also > "only" licensed the h.264 and one other codec bundle from broadcom for > that blob. So only certain video files will play back accelerated. So > it wouldn't do for a FreeView set top box, but would be good for > playing back pre-recorded/downloaded h.264 encoded video.
OK, I see. I don't suppose it will take long for that to be hacked. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
