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VLC Hardware acceleration

I'm new to Raspberry Pi. I am trying to develop a media player that would use a library like libvlc to do the decoding. Now the problem is that I can't get the hardware acceleration going... I have read a lot on the internet and but no one seems to…
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Why is my Raspberry Pi 2 so hot?

I have one raspberry PI and two PI-2, side by side, inside a little cupboard. I'm constantly monitoring their temperature. I'm worried because one of the Pi-2 is quite hot. The PI and the hot PI-2 are running raspbian jessie and mostly idling. The…
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Multiple IP addresses being assigned

My Raspberry Pi B+ is running Raspbian (Linux version 3.18.11+) updated, etc. It's connected to the network by ethernet. I want a static IP, and have assigned it one in /etc/network/interfaces (shown below). However, every boot it requests an…
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Can the Pi Emulate an HID device with via USB?

Does the Raspberry Pi model B+ have the capabilities of acting as a Human Interface Device (HID) with no extra hardware (other than a USB to USB cable)? I saw this question but it was about capturing output from the computer. My goal would be to…
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How does a program check whether it's running on a 512MB RPi?

Do the 512MB RPI's have a different board revision? ie, can you just look at the revision in /proc/cpuinfo to determine if you have a 512MB RPi? Otherwise what's the easiest way to check?
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SD card write speed seems to be 14 times slower than read speed

I was writing to an SD card this evening from a Mac Book Air internal card reader, and the performance reported was 1.4 MB/sec. I later read tested it on the Raspberry Pi and got 20 MB/sec. It is a class 6 card and neither of these figures sound…
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Remove GNU licence and 'no warranty' thing when logging into ssh

Whenever I login to my Pi via ssh I get this message: pi@192.168.1.251's password: Linux raspberrypi 3.18.11+ #781 PREEMPT Tue Apr 21 18:02:18 BST 2015 armv6l The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact…
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Reading video from camera (Kinect if possible)

I am starting up a project that will require Computer Vision to be used on the Raspberry Pi. I am relatively familiar with OpenCV and am aware that it can be installed successfully on a Raspberry Pi though I don't know how successful the Pi would…
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GPIO Pin Explanation

My Pi 2 kit came with the following GPIO pin reference card. In addition to showing all of the 5V, 3.3V, GND, and GPIO pin numbers, it has additional information on some of the GPIO pins like TXD, RXD, UART, CLK, PCM, DE0, CE1, SPI, DIN, DOUT, PCM,…
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How do I resize my debian partition?

I've seen advice here for resizing, which is fine if you have another linux distribution to work with. How can I do resize the partition otherwise? Are there any Windows tools for example?
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How to change the clock to 12-hour format in Raspbian?

By default, Raspbian displays a 24-hour clock: Normally, LXDE provides an option to change the clock format by opening Panel Preferences, selecting "Digital Clock", and clicking Preferences. However, this is disabled: How do I change the format?
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Is it possible to run a DHCP server?

Our home router is terrible at remembering configured static IPs, I'd like to use my RasPi instead. Is there anything particular I need to consider when setting it up?
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Raspberry Pi Frozen

Hi my Raspberry Pi has frozen, and I am not sure what is the safest way to restart/shut down without doing any damage.
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Why do I have to `sudo`?

I've followed a couple of tutorials on my RPi and a lot of commands start with sudo; what does it mean and what does it do?
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Can I run a terminal command from ssh to open the browser on X server?

I've hooked up the raspberry pi to a display. I have ssh'd in from another machine and I was wondering how, if possible, to open a browser window via epiphany http://example.com from my ssh session and have it appear on the screen.
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