General discussion • Re: MPEG-2 & VC-1 license key queries / issues #2

If you planning on selling your pi and you have purchased licenses - you should provide it with your pi as you can just print those on the paper. no need to include the SD card :

licenses are located at :
cat /boot/config.txt
decode_MPG2=0xnnnnnnnn
decode_WVC1=0xnnnnnnnn

you can also check if your licenses are enabled:VC1 license is also important as it accelerates youtube videos:

$ for codec in H264 MPG2 WVC1 MPG4 MJPG WMV9 ; do \
echo -e "$codec:\t$(vcgencmd codec_enabled $codec)" ; \
done
H264:H264=enabled
MPG2:MPG2=enabled
WVC1:WVC1=enabled
MPG4:MPG4=enabled
MJPG:MJPG=enabled
WMV9:WMV9=enabled <--- youtube, enabled with VC-1 license

You should sell your pi with licenses for 50% markup over market price of similar pi without licenses. If you are buying new or used pi 1,2,3,4 without license now - you would not be able to get those licenses at this point.

This is what it looks like without those licenses:
$ for codec in H264 MPG2 WVC1 MPG4 MJPG WMV9 ; do \
echo -e "$codec:\t$(vcgencmd codec_enabled $codec)" ; \
done
H264:H264=enabled
MPG2:MPG2=disabled
WVC1:WVC1=disabled
MPG4:MPG4=enabled
MJPG:MJPG=enabled
WMV9:WMV9=disabled

Good Luck!

Statistics: Posted by victorPi1234 — Thu Aug 08, 2024 1:06 pm

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