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i was thinking of buying a raspberry by to use as just a streaming device for a tv in the bedroom it is cheap and supports 1080p but to those that have one do they work well as a xbmc device i am a little concerned because of the ram and also the 100m lan if they could handle strreaming the 1080p rips
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not tried streaming yet, but 1080p playback is fine it you don't use the pi the downmix DTS sound, tho its fine with AC3 sound, but for £30 you cannot go wrong
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For £30 its probably worth a punt, if its no good just throw it away. just don't expect too much and avoid disappointment.
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I've got one running at the moment and I'm pretty impressed with it. For the money, it's excellent.
There are a couple of codecs you can buy to enable hardware decoding for MPEG-2 and VC-1 which give a few more playback options.
There are limitations in terms of responsiveness and playback of high bitrate content, but that is expected when running with restricted resources.
Since first installing it the software has developed massively, and no doubt with time, will gain more efficiency. I've not updated mine for a while, but I believe the dynamic overclocking has now been implemented, which should make the whole XBMC experience a lot more fluid.
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I have three of them, two of them running XBMC currently and I'm pretty impressed with it too. With a bit of overclocking (which is easy to do) it downmixes DTS and AC3 just fine for me.
Also, the Pi's are now shipping with 512MB of Ram instead of 256 from what I read. Not sure if that will improve things or not but it can't hurt.
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No ISO support, which is a deal-breaker for me. It's a neat toy, but right now mine is in a drawer since a good 50% of my media is in ISO format.
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(2012-10-21, 13:32)bznotins Wrote: No ISO support, which is a deal-breaker for me. It's a neat toy, but right now mine is in a drawer since a good 50% of my media is in ISO format.
ISO support is currently being worked on. It's enabled but there's kinks to work out.
