XBMC on Raspberry Pi - Wonder if this will work out? (Historical Discussion Thread)

welshblob · 2012-01-21 17:10

Hi guys,

I haven't posted on this forum for ages as xbmc is just stable and I don't have any problems to post about! Porting xbmc to the Raspberry Pi is great and thanks for all the time and effort you guys are putting into this.

One question though, all the demos we have seen are with HD videos which appear to be using the H264 codec which the GPU on the RPi supports by default ... very impressive. Given that, to the best of my knowledge, there is no native support for xvid etc. does this mean that this will be offloaded to the CPU and is the CPU on the RPi man enough to do this decoding?

From reading the RPi forums I know that Eben is planning to write a blog on what codec support is provided by default which may help to clarify things. But he is a busy guy so I would expect this to take some time to appear.

Cheers
Rob

mikeplow1961 · 2012-01-21 17:34

Hitcher Wrote:XBMC on Raspberry Pi SCALE 10x 2012

You guys rock. That looks fantastic.

CrashX · 2012-01-21 21:19

@davilla:

How is the usb based remote control support on this device ?

**davilla** · 2012-01-21 23:14

CrashX Wrote:@davilla:

How is the usb based remote control support on this device ?

same as with any other linux based system.

ubuntuf4n · 2012-01-22 00:19

This device is wonderful and the power consumption is also very neat :-)
I was wondering if you could use powered usb-hubs to extend the max. amount of usb-ports ?

mikeplow1961 · 2012-01-22 00:28

One quick question, Davilla or Gimli when you next pop in. Was the board used in your video 128mb?
Keep up the good work

dlove67 · 2012-01-22 00:31

Oh, I stand corrected, my bad Smile

How well does the pi handle large lists(for instance, my music collection is >20000 songs, and would cause XBMC to hang upon opening.

Sorry if answering so many questions gets annoying, but these are hardly things I can google for and I'm excited Tongue

dlove67 · 2012-01-22 00:32

ubuntuf4n Wrote:This device is wonderful and the power consumption is also very neat :-)
I was wondering if you could use powered usb-hubs to extend the max. amount of usb-ports ?

As far as I understand it, thats what you're expected to do on the pi in order to have more peripherals.

**davilla** · 2012-01-22 00:52

mikeplow1961 Wrote:One quick question, Davilla or Gimli when you next pop in. Was the board used in your video 128mb?
Keep up the good work

No. 128MB of ram is not enough to run XBMC.

A600 · 2012-01-22 01:23

Does it support hardware deinterlacing?

mikeplow1961 Junior Member Posts: 44 Joined: Oct 2011 Reputation: 0	2012-01-21 17:34 Post: #132 Hitcher Wrote:XBMC on Raspberry Pi SCALE 10x 2012 You guys rock. That looks fantastic.
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CrashX Posting Freak Posts: 1,216 Joined: Jan 2009 Reputation: 2	2012-01-21 21:19 Post: #133 @davilla: How is the usb based remote control support on this device ? The normal XBMC log IS NOT a debug log, to enable debug logging you must toggle it on under XBMC Settings - System or in advancedsettings.xml. Use XBMC Debug Log Addon to retrieve it.
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davilla Team-XBMC Developer Posts: 10,399 Joined: Feb 2008 Reputation: 58	2012-01-21 23:14 Post: #134 CrashX Wrote:@davilla: How is the usb based remote control support on this device ? same as with any other linux based system. MediaInfo : http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/ Do not e-mail XBMC-Team members directly asking for support. Read/follow the forum rules.
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ubuntuf4n Posting Freak Posts: 786 Joined: Jan 2010 Reputation: 2	2012-01-22 00:19 Post: #135 This device is wonderful and the power consumption is also very neat :-) I was wondering if you could use powered usb-hubs to extend the max. amount of usb-ports ? . Cheers ubuntuf4n
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mikeplow1961 Junior Member Posts: 44 Joined: Oct 2011 Reputation: 0	2012-01-22 00:28 Post: #136 One quick question, Davilla or Gimli when you next pop in. Was the board used in your video 128mb? Keep up the good work
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dlove67 Junior Member Posts: 3 Joined: Jan 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-01-22 00:31 Post: #137 Oh, I stand corrected, my bad How well does the pi handle large lists(for instance, my music collection is >20000 songs, and would cause XBMC to hang upon opening. Sorry if answering so many questions gets annoying, but these are hardly things I can google for and I'm excited
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dlove67 Junior Member Posts: 3 Joined: Jan 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-01-22 00:32 Post: #138 ubuntuf4n Wrote:This device is wonderful and the power consumption is also very neat :-) I was wondering if you could use powered usb-hubs to extend the max. amount of usb-ports ? As far as I understand it, thats what you're expected to do on the pi in order to have more peripherals.
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davilla Team-XBMC Developer Posts: 10,399 Joined: Feb 2008 Reputation: 58	2012-01-22 00:52 Post: #139 mikeplow1961 Wrote:One quick question, Davilla or Gimli when you next pop in. Was the board used in your video 128mb? Keep up the good work No. 128MB of ram is not enough to run XBMC. MediaInfo : http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/ Do not e-mail XBMC-Team members directly asking for support. Read/follow the forum rules.
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A600 Fan Posts: 461 Joined: Oct 2003 Reputation: 7	2012-01-22 01:23 Post: #140 Does it support hardware deinterlacing?
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