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

(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?

(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.

And it can't be both why?

(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.

Dude we got it the PI is nothing for you : http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=126995&page=4
Let other people be happy with it.

i think that my pi is broken in some way, i can't play h264 mkv files like i't shood i geting only 1 frame at the time and my screen constantly blinking i have try to streame from local network and from usb flash but end resault is same xvid and divx working just fine HELP!!! i dont know what to do

You need to remember that this is early beta software. There will be kinks in things, stuff that needs to be fixed etc. The first RC version literally *JUST* got released so give that one a shot if not.

(2012-06-04 23:23)Doktor-X Wrote:  i think that my pi is broken in some way, i can't play h264 mkv files like i't shood i geting only 1 frame at the time and my screen constantly blinking i have try to streame from local network and from usb flash but end resault is same xvid and divx working just fine HELP!!! i dont know what to do

Check that your power supply is appropriate (mA wise)

i have order power supply from rs when i was ordering my pi so power supply is fine it is 1200 mAh so thing this is enough

i just check cpu load over ssh using top command and i see that cpu load is around 5-20% but 1080p video play's like i have low BW on my network

[edit - double posted]
odd, seems i posted my message earlier, yet when i looked later it was still wrote out in my 'reply to post'.

anyway, things have changed slightly since, so the below post is where im at.

I was running the RaspBMC Beta fine, the H.264 files are GPU Accelerated and the CPU load will be minimal compared to when its in the menus (even idle) because of how XBMC works. The RC should have lower CPU load, but the GPU is still doing the work for HD content, and i believe the CPU is decoding for SD which was the initial cause for concern. When i tried it though, it loaded just as quickly as any HD content (~3sec) and worked absolutely flawlessly, skips instantly without issue, whereas HD has that visual f-up that takes a couple of sec to fade away and its fine. That was also streaming from my WHS2011 file server too, not local.

I've had some trouble with the RC though, booted the Pi up and it started to do an update but failed, had a look on their website and noticed a link so figured i'd do a fresh install, maybe thats what was required. Flashed it, let it work its magic, and then it seemed to be getting SD errors.
Ive since noticed that the img is the same file, same size, date and everything, so im guessing thats nothing more than a basic platform in which to download the latest files and install it?
So i did that, took 12min including a reboot afterwards, and looking in the system, im running Raspbmc 12.0 Alpha2 compiled May 30th, and my CPU usage is around 75-80%

Is that just wrongly labelled, hasnt been modified to reflect its change to Beta or RC1, or am i somehow running an old version??