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I am thinking of buying a Raspberry Pi to run XBMC and use it just as a media centre.
I have read that the Raspberry Pi can only play H.264 files.
Is this true?
How can I get it to play AVI, Mpeg, Xvid or DivX files?
Or is there another piece of hardware that I should look out for?
Thanks for any replies.
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You can purchase very cheaply mpeg2 codec from rpi website.
Most SD material should be fine via cpu.
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Thanks,
However I have quite a few HD files so if it can't handle these I am out!
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So you have HD files that are not encoded in h264?
Frankly I have never been sure if RPi does or doesn't do divx in hardware (which is mpeg4, but a different standard than h264).
Do you have a sample file I could try out for you?
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