
I don't think it's needed for x264 video files which are MPEG-4. You open the file and add the lines to the file. The codes that the Raspberry Pi foundation email must be added to a file called config.txt which is located on the boot partition of the Pi’s SD card.
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Essentially, the license enables GPU encoding/decoding of MPEG-2 video, which is better than CPU encoding/decoding. The MPEG-2 option costs £2.40 and the VC-1 codec costs £1.20, you buy the options from the Raspberry Pi store and then they mail you the codes.
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In the case of Linux distributions, free versions of media encoders and decoders are used instead. I didn’t make any changes other than the several reboots yesterday, but. MPEG-2 Licencing & The Raspberry Pi Other operating systems include the cost of the various codecs within the price of the operating system.

So i bought a MPEG 2 license (still waiting) and i just wanted to confirm the location i would add the key to? My MPEG video files now play fine through omxplayer. You purchase the license, the Raspberry Pi Foundation will send you back a numeric. The Raspberry Pi Foundation looked into also enabling that codec by de. However it did work 24 hours later (and neither Pi had been rebooted during that time). But mpeg decodeding did not work after each reboot. I’m just curious as to why activation did. I amended the config.txt file 2 days ago, and rebooted both Pi’s at least twice afterwards (as detailed earlier).

So i bought a MPEG 2 license (still waiting) and i just wanted to confirm the location i would add the key to? The licence key is working fine on both Pi’s, and I’m perfectly happy with it.
