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Shane-O-Mac posted:I've been working on making mine into a NAS/SABnzbd machine. I was able to watch an HD video using XBMC on my laptop with no problems. I haven't been able to test simultaneous watching/downloading, though. I'd be nice-ing the crap out of the post process stage if you plan on watching videos simultaneously. The unpack can even make my late 2011 MBP chug if Im not careful.
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duck monster posted:I'd be nice-ing the crap out of the post process stage if you plan on watching videos simultaneously. The unpack can even make my late 2011 MBP chug if Im not careful. Another potential issue is io - even if the cpu usage is low-priority, it might still keep the io subsystem busy. (Has Linux got some form of priority-based disk scheduling? I've only really looked at FreeBSD lately.)
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duck monster posted:I'd be nice-ing the crap out of the post process stage if you plan on watching videos simultaneously. The unpack can even make my late 2011 MBP chug if Im not careful. I've been pausing the download queue if I want to watch something. That has been working even though it's annoying. I'm working on finding another server so I can use the Pi for RaspBMC, as I had originally planned.
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Computer viking posted:Another potential issue is io - even if the cpu usage is low-priority, it might still keep the io subsystem busy. (Has Linux got some form of priority-based disk scheduling? I've only really looked at FreeBSD lately.) Yeah there's also ionice. Both nice and ionice are built in to SABNzbd as an option so it's pretty easy to set up. Unrelated to rasp pi (as it's only got one core) but you can also get a multi-threaded version of par2 to speed things up.
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I just received one in the mail. I had totally forgot about this. If I would like to use it as a media center, simply plugged into a TV to watch streaming video off a network share, is there a recommended way to do this? I can obviously set up an nfs share and just watch videos with vlc or mplayer or whatever, but I guess what I am really looking for is some hacked together interface/system that is Roku-esque or something like that? I still need to get an SD card and something to get it on wifi...
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Woah. I am buying the Patriot brand sdcard mentioned a few pages back. What is a small usb wifi adaptor that will "just work" when plugged in? I am reading through http://elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals , but the few devices that were specifically tested on raspbmc seem to require building modules and unfun things like that.
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Kaluza-Klein posted:Woah. I am buying the Patriot brand sdcard mentioned a few pages back. What is a small usb wifi adaptor that will "just work" when plugged in? I am reading through http://elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals , but the few devices that were specifically tested on raspbmc seem to require building modules and unfun things like that. This one does not work, at least not without doing extra work that you mentioned. Not much of a help, I know.
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Finally ordered one today. Tried to hold out until it was available for shipping right away....that was a waste of time...
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I ordered one on the 18th from Newark. It shipped today.
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Guy Axlerod posted:I ordered one on the 18th from Newark. It shipped today. Anyone picked up the "gertboard" interface kit?
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Kaluza-Klein posted:Woah. I am buying the Patriot brand sdcard mentioned a few pages back. What is a small usb wifi adaptor that will "just work" when plugged in? I am reading through http://elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals , but the few devices that were specifically tested on raspbmc seem to require building modules and unfun things like that. I did have some trouble getting it to work plugged directly into the Pi, but it works fine using a powered USB hub (which I'm actually now using to power the Pi).
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I'm currently using this, playback is perfect but the UI can be very laggy at times and for some reason I can't get it to automatically use sequential playback, I have to manually queue the next video if I don't want to be dumped back to the folder view. I'm gonna give openelec a whirl tonight and see if that's any more polished.
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DicksToAsses posted:I'm currently using this, playback is perfect but the UI can be very laggy at times and for some reason I can't get it to automatically use sequential playback, I have to manually queue the next video if I don't want to be dumped back to the folder view. I'm looking forward to hearing how this works out - I'm using XMBC on a jb'd ATV2, and am planning on using 1 Pi to to run XMBC - I don't mind if it's sluggish as long as teh playback is good, but if there's a better media center available that doesn't have the ui issues that'd be cool. Maybe I should just get a half dozen SD cards and load a different OS on each depending on what I want to do. Is anyone using an HDMI->DVI conversion cable (like this one from Monoprice)? - I don't have any HDMI native monitors for playing with and this seems like a solution.
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DicksToAsses posted:I'm currently using [Raspbmc], playback is perfect but the UI can be very laggy at times and for some reason I can't get it to automatically use sequential playback, I have to manually queue the next video if I don't want to be dumped back to the folder view. I haven't tried OpenElec, but I can recommend Xbian, the UI is much, much faster than Raspbmc. Not to say it's lag-free, and there are some bugs (about the same as Raspbmc) but getting lots of updates and bugfixes. I was also very impressed that HDMI-CEC (so you can control the UI using your TV remote) works out of the box. Another few months and I'll be able to recommend this setup (Raspberry Pi + XBian) to friends as an ultra-cheap HTPC setup, I think. Botanigo fucked around with this message at 06:53 on Aug 31, 2012 |
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Botanigo posted:I haven't tried OpenElec, but I can recommend Xbian, the UI is much, much faster than Raspbmc. Not to say it's lag-free, and there are some bugs (about the same as Raspbmc) but getting lots of updates and bugfixes. I've been having issues with Xbian playing back certain videos. It likes to barf on nonstandard resolution videos. Corrupted video is the most common side effect. Though, sometimes Xbian just sits and spins on the loading thing and I have to reboot the rpi.
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porktree posted:I'm looking forward to hearing how this works out - I'm using XMBC on a jb'd ATV2, and am planning on using 1 Pi to to run XMBC - I don't mind if it's sluggish as long as teh playback is good, but if there's a better media center available that doesn't have the ui issues that'd be cool. Openelec seems to be pretty much the same as raspbmc, except it doesn't want to index all my TV shows neatly like raspbmc did without prompting. I think I'm going to stick with raspbmc for now and see if it gets any smoother with development. Botanigo posted:I haven't tried OpenElec, but I can recommend Xbian, the UI is much, much faster than Raspbmc. Not to say it's lag-free, and there are some bugs (about the same as Raspbmc) but getting lots of updates and bugfixes. I tried this, and much like the poster above me found there to be a bunch of weird niggling issues where it would lock up or completely fail to play files that the other builds had no problem with for no reason. The UI is a lot faster though, you're right. If they could get raspbmc working as fast, or get xbian to be as stable, then they would definitely be onto a winner. Also it looks like continuous playback straight up isn't supported in the media players they're using in these builds, hopefully that gets fixed soon. History Comes Inside! fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Aug 31, 2012 |
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I have xbian up and running. Easy as pie. I am trying to connect to it with the android XBMC Remote app. It can connect to the webserver on port 80, but then it wants to connect to some EventServer via UDP port 9777. I can't find anything in the xmbc gui config referring to this. Anyone know what it is asking for?
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Wow xbian really is great, I hadn't heard of it before and just switched over tonight. The difference in menu responsiveness is hard to believe. And I didn't even know HDMI could do this whole CEC thing, it worked first thing with no configuration required at all. No need to use android xbmc remote anymore
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peepsalot posted:Wow xbian really is great, I hadn't heard of it before and just switched over tonight. The difference in menu responsiveness is hard to believe. And I didn't even know HDMI could do this whole CEC thing, it worked first thing with no configuration required at all. No need to use android xbmc remote anymore God damnit now I want a new tv.
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Kaluza-Klein posted:I am trying to connect to it with the android XBMC Remote app. It can connect to the webserver on port 80, but then it wants to connect to some EventServer via UDP port 9777. I can't find anything in the xmbc gui config referring to this. Yeah, you need to click around in Settings and turn this on. Depending on what skin you're using, it's in different places. It'll be called something like "Allow other computers to control XBMC". There are at least two different bits you need to turn on, kind of annoying.
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I have a setup on an old (windows) desktop currently running sickbeard, sabnzbd, couch potato and XBMC. This draws huge amounts of power and makes some noise, too. I have two raspberry Pis available, and wanted to use one for sickbeard, sabnzbd and couch potato, and the other for XBMC: this struck me as the best split, load-wise, so as to keep the XBMC Pi responsive. I'm pretty confident about setting the communcations layer up: the relevant software all runs happily to non-localhost IP addresses with specified ports. The thing that has been putting me off is the fact that I have plenty of TV series, films etc stored already. Has anyone already ported from an existing XBMC or sabnzbd installation to a new one on their Pi? I'm going to miss vital config files, I am sure 
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Mine arrived last week, I went through different ISOs and distributions to see its potential, it arrived at work address, all my colleges were excited and gave ideas, one of them was to install some of our systems, I am still trying to adapt some of the windows dependent code. But one thing I saw was that networking on the Pi consumes lots of cpu so in all intensive networking applications I got a slowdown, what is your general experience with networking? like streamming?
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Shane-O-Mac posted:So If I remembered everything correctly, your Pi should be all set up in terms of basic OS stuff. I followed this guide to install SABnzbd, SickBeard, and CouchPotato... Brilliant, thanks: that was just what I was looking for, a couple of posts up, but I had somehow skipped p15 of the thread.
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Endie posted:Brilliant, thanks: that was just what I was looking for, a couple of posts up, but I had somehow skipped p15 of the thread. Good luck with it. I found that the Pi just wasn't strong/fast enough for what I needed to do, and switched to a different machine. Now I'm using the Pi for RaspBMC.
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Idg today linked to http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/freshers/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/ "Computer Lab Raspberry Pi Tutorials - Baking Pi - Operating Systems Development" This website is here to guide you through the process of developing very basic operating systems on the Raspberry Pi! Oh how i wish i could have gotten started with something like this when i was a kid. Early 90s i bought an Amiga 500 and looking through some of the computer magazines i read back then i see that i did some tests like "are you thinking like a programmer?" and there was a ton of Aros code etc, but i never ever tried doing anything with it.
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Who's running Xbian? I put it on my Pi and let it chug along and update the libraries (overnight) - but I seem to be having a lot of issues streaming even low quality (SD) content from my media share. The same stuff runs without a hiccup through XBMC on my ATV 2, or streamed wirelessly to my iPad (using Airvideo). I'm going to load up a card with RaspBMC and see how that does with playback. Or, are there any tweaks I should try with Xbian?
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My Pi shipped! Will be in Monday! 
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porktree posted:Who's running Xbian? I put it on my Pi and let it chug along and update the libraries (overnight) - but I seem to be having a lot of issues streaming even low quality (SD) content from my media share. The same stuff runs without a hiccup through XBMC on my ATV 2, or streamed wirelessly to my iPad (using Airvideo). I'm going to load up a card with RaspBMC and see how that does with playback. Or, are there any tweaks I should try with Xbian? I was able to stream HD to an Xbian no problem. I then had to borrow the SD card so it is very offline at the moment.
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porktree posted:Who's running Xbian? I put it on my Pi and let it chug along and update the libraries (overnight) - but I seem to be having a lot of issues streaming even low quality (SD) content from my media share. The same stuff runs without a hiccup through XBMC on my ATV 2, or streamed wirelessly to my iPad (using Airvideo). I'm going to load up a card with RaspBMC and see how that does with playback. Or, are there any tweaks I should try with Xbian? What kind of content is it? If it's encoded in H264 or MPEG4 then it should play no problem, but if it's MPEG2 then it'll struggle even with SD unless you buy the MPEG2 hardware decoder licence.
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porktree posted:Who's running Xbian? I put it on my Pi and let it chug along and update the libraries (overnight) - but I seem to be having a lot of issues streaming even low quality (SD) content from my media share. The same stuff runs without a hiccup through XBMC on my ATV 2, or streamed wirelessly to my iPad (using Airvideo). I'm going to load up a card with RaspBMC and see how that does with playback. Or, are there any tweaks I should try with Xbian? It shouldn't take overnight to update. Only took a couple minutes for me if i remember correctly. Are you using a wifi dongle with a spotty connection or something? Just sounds to me like you are getting terrible network speeds.
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So the way I understand it, the GPU has its own ROM and it communicated with the CPU through shared memory. I was looking through these tutorials, which were pretty decent, but unfortunately it doesn't have anything for HDMI. I imagine getting the GPU to transmit over HDMI is a lot more complicated, but does anyone know of a tutorial that gets it working (not using Linux or another OS). It would be pretty amazing if the GPU rom could speak HDMI/EDID/DDC and we didn't need a super complicated driver to get it up and running.
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Been thinking about getting one of these; I have only just started learning programming, but it looks like a useful tool. Plus if (when) I manage to break it horribly, it's only $25 lost! 
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For anyone thinking about picking one of these up, they are releasing a 2.0 shortly. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/09/06/1331244/raspberry-pi-revision-20-board-announced
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Tiger.Bomb posted:I imagine getting the GPU to transmit over HDMI is a lot more complicated, but does anyone know of a tutorial that gets it working (not using Linux or another OS). It would be pretty amazing if the GPU rom could speak HDMI/EDID/DDC and we didn't need a super complicated driver to get it up and running. That tutorial works with the framebuffer, so it should work with HDMI as well.
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Internet Explorer posted:For anyone thinking about picking one of these up, they are releasing a 2.0 shortly. No performance changes - they haven't any planned - but a bunch of tweaks here and there, and mounting holes on the PCB.
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Are these still hard to find? I went to the distributors on the website and looks like they're out of stock for a while for USA. Are there any local places that source it at all? I guess I'm just spoiled by newegg and amazon, ha.
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BotchedLobotomy posted:Are these still hard to find? I went to the distributors on the website and looks like they're out of stock for a while for USA. I ordered mine aug 28 and it shipped the other day, will arrive Monday. Went through Newark/element14.
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EgoEgress posted:Been thinking about getting one of these; I have only just started learning programming, but it looks like a useful tool. Plus if (when) I manage to break it horribly, it's only $25 lost! If you're just starting out with programming, you're probably better off on a PC or Mac. The RPi is limited enough that it'd be a massive pain to run a debugger or modern IDE; even a cheap, old PC can run one without a sweat. And, if you're worried about breaking things, a virtual machine is probably a better option than a dedicated piece of hardware: it costs nothing and no matter what you do you can always just restore from a backup snapshot. The RPi's real advantage is that it makes embedded development easy; it has way more power and flexibility than a microcontroller, but nowhere near the electrical, cooling, and space issues of a full PC. If you've already got an idea for a project that involves putting something on a network (anything from a TV running a digital sign, to a local streaming video playback box, to a networked IR blaster, to a tiny home NAS), the Pi makes a great physical platform. And, if you've got a little experience it's a great platform to learn embedded development on. But, if you just want to "learn about programming" in general, it's probably better to start out on something with a bit more power to it.
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