May I also suggest you consider learning to make stained glass windows? I did a short course a couple of years ago. It's very easy to do and the tools you need to be able to do this at home are very inexpensive, the major expense is the materials themselves. If I had a Victorian house like...
The GPU "driver" (not sure its actually a driver) is a closed source binary supplied by broadcom. You have to pay them to extra to enable various codecs so they can be processed by the GPU. The RPi has h264 but not divx/xvid as it would have bumped the price considerably.
You can still decode...
No probs mate, if you recall I was only going to recommend a builder, depending on what you wanted doing - conservatories/windows etc. is my line.
And don't get me started on planning...
i have some very religious family, and i'm familiar with the practices. spelling God as G-d is not necessary, especially since it's an english word.
what's your point?