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Raspberry Pi MPEG-2, VC-1 license patch
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osmcCodecPatch.sh
sudo su <<EOF
cd /boot
cp start_x.elf start_x.elf_backup && \
perl -pne 's/\x47\xE9362H\x1D\x18/\x47\xE9362H\x1D\x1F/g' < start_x.elf_backup > start_x.elf
EOF
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piCodecPatch.sh
sudo su <<EOF
cd /boot
cp start.elf start.elf_backup && \
perl -pne 's/\x47\xE9362H\x3C\x18/\x47\xE9362H\x3C\x1F/g' < start.elf_backup > start.elf
EOF
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is there a workaround without perl?

@captain
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captain commented May 7, 2021 •
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You could replace the byte with a hex editor, EPiC-APOC, but I'm not even sure this is a valid solution. I still don't get mpeg2 or vc1 enabled. shrug

BTW, "sudo -s" is usually the way to get a root shell. (but is also frowned upon. just prepend sudo to your three lines of code. ;-)

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is there a workaround without perl?

Mount SD on Linux , i used a virtual machine with an Ubuntu dist and used perl there.

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infojoe commented Oct 1, 2021

Last version this works on is Apr-15-2020:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/9e3c23ce779e8cf44c33d6a25bba249319207f68/boot

The latest files all show the following after the 47E933363248 string:

start.elf: 0918
start_x.elf: has two locations, 0090 and 1D18

Hopefully someone smarter than me will be able to make it work.

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