Raspberry Pi : Experimenting with MPEG-2 (DVD) and VC-1 (WMV) licences ZDNet Fortunately, there are a couple of good explanatory posts on the Raspberry Pi web site; first, the announcement of the codecs, and then a what can you do with them, including a nice table that shows what plays and what doesn't with which decoder(s).
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Raspberry Pi: Experimenting with MPEG-2 (DVD) and VC-1 (WMV) licences – ZDNet
Carrie Anne’s end-of-year edition of Geek Gurl Diaries had some news in it that might interest you. The whole of the video (especially the book competition) is likely to be something you’ll find interesting – but the REALLY interesting bit is the announcement that Carrie Anne makes at around the 3:49 mark. Congratulations Carrie Anne – we’re really looking forward to seeing you on Monday morning!
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News from Carrie Anne Philbin
Back in May, we mentioned that we’d been sponsoring the development of the ARM port of PyPy, the high-performance Python interpreter. Earlier today the team released a first beta of the upcoming 2.1 release, which for the first time adds ARM as an officially supported architecture. You can see the announcement here , and download binaries for Raspbian here .
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PyPy 2.1 beta released
BBC News Raspberry Pi and Comp Sci: Is IT teaching back on track?
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