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Can anyone advise me how to put the mpeg2 license key into the config files please? Can this be done via windows network possibly? I am only running OpenElec now on the PI2. I also winder if this key is actually required when running a Home Run PVR as the backend. I cannot seem to decode HD.

Advertisement Cueing up some videos to enjoy on my Raspberry Pi yesterday, I made a startling discovery – it wouldn’t play MPEG videos! Has this happened to you? Are you running a Four weeks on and I’ve been playing with my Raspberry Pi in various ways, from using it to browse the web and standard day-to-day computing tasks to playing around with the various configurations that are. On your Raspberry Pi computer, or enjoy viewing videos through the desktop? Have you noticed that certain video files cannot be played back? If so, you’re not alone. Many people have run into trouble with the fact that while the Raspberry Pi will happily transcode high definition videos, it seemingly cannot playback MPEG-2 videos.

The reason for this is not a hardware failure or even a software failure, however – rather, it is all down to licencing. Many media players on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux distributions will allow you to enjoy MPEG-2 without any licencing issues, though – so what is going on? What makes the Raspberry Pi so different that it requires a licence to playback MPEG-2 videos, and how exactly does this license work? MPEG-2 Licencing & The Raspberry Pi Other operating systems include the cost of the various codecs within the price of the operating system. In the case of Linux distributions, free versions of media encoders and decoders are used instead. But hang on – the Raspberry Pi runs a Linux distribution, so why isn’t the MPEG-2 codec free?

The answer is simple. The Raspberry Pi is designed to be used for education, and while there are many who enjoy its multimedia capabilities, the developers decided to remove MPEG-2 in order to keep costs down. If you want to use MPEG-2, it is there for you to unlock for a small fee. Of course, you might not want to; after all, there are I’ve recently received my Raspberry Pi after a long wait – and I’ve got quite a few plans for it. The problem is, I’m not totally sure which project I want to attempt first. Beyond playing back videos.

How To Get The MPEG-2 Licence In order to install the MPEG-2 licence on your Raspberry Pi, you will first need to find out your device’s serial number. This can be found in the documentation that you included when you first received the computer, but if you don’t have this to hand, don’t worry, you can interrogate the motherboard.

Installing The MPEG-2 Licence On Your Raspberry Pi With the order made, you will need to wait up to 72 hours for your licence to be received by email (if it doesn’t arrive, you should email the Raspberry Pi people, but the process is usually reliable and efficient). When the licence key arrives you will find it in a text file as a single line, something similar to: decodeMPEG2=0x1234567 In order to use this on your Pi, you will need to edit the config.txt file, which can be found in /boot. Simply add the licence as a new line of text as shown above, then save and close. If you have multiple SD cards for different OS versions – perhaps one for As befits a man with too much tech on his hands, I’ve been playing with my Raspberry Pi recently, configuring the device so that it works to its fullest potential. It continues to run as. And one for RaspBMC – you will need to add the licence to each. Reboot your Raspberry Pi to complete the procedure, and you will then be able to enjoy MPEG-2 videos.

Could I Try a Hacked Codec? There are – apparently – hacked versions of the codec available online, but really when you consider what might be necessary (for instance, running software to spoof the device serial number) and the fact that the licence is so cheap, this really isn’t worth it.

Just put decodeMPG2=LicenseNumber in /boot/config.txt Did you not understand that the the previous post indicated that this was indeed an option, confirming ops posed question? Because I think your post, 4 hrs after ops question was answered, is quite disrespectful and dismissive of the time and effort that the OSMC team have spent to provide a simple method for users to accomplish such tasks, particularly novice users. Do it whichever way you like but, IMO your useless 'echo' here is unnecessary and disrespectful. I received a confirmation email with both licences in it, related to the serials of either Pi. So now I now which one is which.

However I've added them to the config.txt file as suggested (through the Pi Config add-on), and after a reboot there seems to be no change. Videos with the MPG extension only play sound with omxplayer as the default. If I change to DVDPlayer, MPGs play, but then they always did, and I get the wow and flutter sound problem again on all videos (see other thread).

Am I missing something, or is omxplayer incapable of playing these files? They are encoded with MPeg1 by the way.

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Yes I know a reboot is required. I amended the config.txt file 2 days ago, and rebooted both Pi's at least twice afterwards (as detailed earlier).

But mpeg decodeding did not work after each reboot. However it did work 24 hours later (and neither Pi had been rebooted during that time). This isn't a support query by the way, so please don't take it as one.

The licence key is working fine on both Pi's, and I'm perfectly happy with it. I'm just curious as to why activation did not occur after reboots, but after the board had been left unattended for a day. Lorisarvendu: I'm just curious as to why activation did not occur after reboots, but after the board had been left unattended for a day. What you seem convinced has happened here is simply not possible. Your method of determining if activation had occurred was likely flawed.

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The appropriate way to confirm installation of the key would have been to use the command provided in the email that contained your key from RPF. Vcgencmd codecenabled MPG2 Since nowhere at all in these last confused posts have you mentioned using or having any knowledge of this command, then I would assume you simply overlooked it in the license key email and were not really using a reliable method of confirming codec function. But alas, it would seem this horse has now been beaten.