[mythtv-users] How much is too much CPU?

Ronald Frazier ron at ronfrazier.net
Sat Jun 1 02:56:12 UTC 2013


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com
> wrote:

> By not licensing the MPEG2 codec they probably saved themselves
> a few dollars per device(*).  And when you sell millions and millions, that
> turns into real money (which is kept in Ireland :-).
>

Seems to me they could have it locked by default and then sell a license in
the app store that would enable the hardware decoding. If somebody was
interested in MPEG2, then they could pay for it.


-- 
Ron Frazier
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