Mpeg-2 License Key Generator Raspberry Pi

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Apr 18, 2018  This is an effort to reverse-engineer the Raspberry Pi license key check for MPEG-2 and VC-1 hardware video encoding. A patch for start.elf, a firmwware blob for the VideoCore IV processor used by all Raspberry Pi models, was posted to reddit by /u/fuckthempegla on. Feb 14, 2018  The question about the license is if Raspberry Pi Foundation agreed to charge even after the patents expired, on a side note would any court enforce requiring the Raspberry PI Foundation to pay the license fees without a patent, other than for violating a contractual agreement. RPi2 mpeg2 license key not kept in config.txt. Help and Support. Raspberry Pi. If you haven’t already tried it, is to shut down the Pi system, extract the SD card, get it where another system can read it, and edit the config.txt there. Then edit config.txt and append your MPEG-2 license to the end of the file: sudo nano /boot/config.txt. RPi2 mpeg2 license key not kept in config.txt. Help and Support. Raspberry Pi. Then edit config.txt and append your MPEG-2 license to the end of the file. Possible idea: just reboot with different random values until it works. April fools issue or not, the whole thing really is madness. Hardware blocks that decide not to work without a key. ラズベリーパイで遊ぶよ～！ なんか面白そう！ってノリでラズベリーパイを買いました。Linuxやコマンドは全くの初心者、とにかく触って、イロイロやって遊んでみたいと思ってます！.

/openssl-generate-certificate-with-ec-key.html. This is an effort to reverse-engineer the Raspberry Pi license key check forMPEG-2 and VC-1 hardware video encoding.

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Patch

A patch for start.elf, a firmwware blob for the VideoCore IV processor used byall Raspberry Pi models, was posted toredditby /u/fuck_the_mpeg_laon 03-03-2017:

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Applying it to a4.14.44 start.elf(latest as of time of writing) results in the following diff:

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Some initial analysis was done by q3kon Hacker News:

Yes, it seems to patch a licensing function at 0xEC95FD4 [1] to always return 1,by patching the jump at 0xEC95FE2 (that should be only taken for the always-allowed H263 codec)to always be taken, thus always allowing all codecs.

Reverse-engineering

The initial entry point is disassembled using theVideoCore IV pluginfor IDA Pro 6 by hermanhermitage.

After loading and analyzing start.elf, we can find the is_licensed routineat address 0xEC96290 by jumping to the file offset given to us by xxdbeforehand. The relevant code sections are available insub_EC96290.asm and is_licensed.asm.

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Here, two memory locations (0xEE86680 for MPEG-2 and 0xEE869E0 for VC-1)that point to the .bss segment are checked to determine the return value ofis_licensed. There are no other obvious references to these locations instart.elf, so memory-breakpoint debugging (TBD) is probably needed.