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

(2012-06-02 01:58)Jimmer Wrote:  

(2012-06-01 23:36)e8hffff Wrote:  I think the RPi is a tinkering toy, not a serious home solution for the average joe to get XBMC.

It's designed to be a tinkering toy. It's designed to get people to mess around with it. There's nothing wrong with that...

however, why is that idea mutually exclusive with some software development nudging this device towards a perfect little lower power xbmc box for a bedroom or office?

I'm hoping it works out well! I've got one ordered and can't wait for it. Both because I want to tinker with it, and also because I'd love it to be a front-end client for a small bedroom display pulling media off my primary htpc. I don't have particularly high expectations, just driving a 720p monitor and a pair of standard computer speakers with a wired network connection. Generally my media is around that quality level (my choice of quality vs. file size, so around 2-4gb/movie), so it should pan out pretty well.

But, even if it doesn't work out too well as a mini-low power-htpc frontend, that's ok. I'll have tons of fun with the little bugger regardless!

I've just installed the latest version (RC2) of Raspbmc onto my new PI and its excellent. I'm currently watching a 10gb 720p mkv and the playback is flawless.

It was also ridiculously easy to setup. All I needed to do was download an image file and copy it to my SD card using USB image tool. Navigation is fast as is accessing and loading files. Also my MCE remote works quite well, some of the buttons do not work but all of the main ones do.

Great work Sam!!

i also have been able to get 1080p to finally play almost perfekt using build 10902

I got Raspberry Pi few days ago as well.. but I can't decide if i should use openELEC or Raspbmc.

I guess I will give Raspbmc a try. But what do you all think?

Raspbmc seems to be making a more rapid progress from what I've been watching (don't have my Pi yet though) and seems to be a little more slimmed down so perhaps it runs a bit better.

Give them both a try though and see which is best in your opinion, it's as simple as swapping SD cards. I'd like to see some actual comparisons of the two.

Also turn off RSS feeds on the home screen and in the new RC2 with that and dirty regions you can get idle home screen CPU usage to around 15%

What's the dirty region setting you advice?

(2012-06-08 14:27)xbs08 Wrote:  What's the dirty region setting you advice?

Dirty regions are already enabled on Raspbmc RC2. RSS is also turned off by default. Check in ~/.xbmd/userdate/advancedsettings.xml

Mike

Nice, thank you Dilligaf.

Just got my raspberry today, manage to install Raspbmc which was very easy, only problem is that I couldn't make my MCE remote to work so I'm currently using android remote.

I'm trying a few things with the MCE remote. If I have any success it will be posted on the Raspbmc forum http://forum.stmlabs.com/