[ale] RasPI video play

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed Aug 19 17:56:03 EDT 2015


I am pushing mine.  2 wifi usb and 1 2 meter gmsk modem on usb.  My wifi is a bit slow.


On August 19, 2015 5:42:14 PM EDT, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
>Remember there are (now) four versions of the Pi 1:  A, A+, B and B+.
>The A and B had issues with the polyfuse (corrected in the Plus version
>of each and that design is carried over to the Pi 2) and the B and B+
>both had the RAM doubled from 256MB to 512MB.  The A+ is the newest
>addition which is the A coupled with the circuit enhancements from the
>B+ (polyfuse, video out, more GPIO, etc.)
>
>The B+ does pretty well and also has a boot switch that can boost the
>power delivered to the USB ports.  The Pi 2 took all the circuit design
>of the B+ and boosted the SoC and RAM (from single core 700MHz to
>quad-core 900MHz).  The A was always a low power device meant for
>battery powered embedded applications (e.g. robots) so the SoC was
>clocked down considerably to achieve a total power dissipation of 1.5
>Watts compared to the B+ 3.0 Watts and the Pi 2 at 4.0 Watts.
>
>



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