Yeah, I saw that... Interesting read really. Elaborate setup by the sounds of it. Who said geeks don't get any? Well, actually, I guess his pi getting some. But he gets to watch and fine tune it, haha.Not sure how many of you read through that reddit post... but one guy is using his as a Raspberry Pibrator for his wife...
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Have you run into any issues with it? Plays 1080p x264 videos smoothly? Anything to be aware of/limitations?
rasbmc can be flakey, at least the version I tried. If you are running a 256MB board, don't even bother with it, it will lock up on you while trying to navigate menus and playback video at the same time (which is what it is designed to do, you can't avoid this); you really need a 512MB (rev2) board to make it work. Occasionally, I'll get video stutter on some high bitrate files (really high 5+mbit burst) when streaming from samba/nfs but I'm not sure if this is a network problem or a raspi problem (raspi seems to be capped at around 80mbps effective bw). It has hardware assisted decoding for mpeg4 and h264, so as long as you're not trying to stream your DVD images (mpeg2), it's pretty durn quick and seamless, even at 1080p24&p30 (I don't have any p60s, or I'd try it). Decoding is based on ffmpeg as far as I can tell, so it's very compatible and accurate demuxing & decoding. I use stereo out because I'm sending to a monitor (hdmi->dvi converter) instead of to a TV so I can't speak on the hdmi audio output, but I'm sure proper futzing with pulseaudio will get it working. The plugins for TV show metadata in xbmc suck, even with configured "properly" and have a hard time recognizing folders & subfolders, but it plays back the files just fine from the browser.
I thought about ordering one, then I thought it'd be much more fun to build one. Probably go the lego route as well..
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Out of curiosity, did anybody buy a case for theirs? I was looking at some of the cases online and they look pretty cool but I also found some nice instructions for building cases out of LEGOs which are fun and cheap.
Who did you buy from? I see Amazon has dozens of sellers all for the same price.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009SQQF9C/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I already tried that. A well refined distribution, but despite the accelerated x driver, scrolling performance on the Windows desktop is horrible and a simple flash animation will grind to a halt the browser window in the RDP session. According to qualified posters on Raspberry official forum, the Raspberry GPU is unsuited to drive a X-based desktop. The Raspberry Pi foundation sponsored solution will be a Wayland porting. This will hopefully be more suited to the peculiar SOC architecture of the Raspberry Pi.
Care to elaborate? I tried disabling RSS and a bit of OC (1GHz stable) but neither fixed my problem. Not like you can still get a model B w/ 256MB of ram, but I'm curious to know how I could have fixed it.
It's been great. I only use my netbook OS for audio and video. I've got my primary drive synced between my netbook, NAS, and Windows 7 VM so no matter where I am I have all of the data I need. I have 2 dedicated servers in 2 different data centers, one is about 40ms latency and the other is about 70ms so I keep my Windows 7 and Server 2008 VMs in the closer data center while keeping my linux distros in the other.
Which FM transmitter?Going to setup an FM Transmitter and drive around tomorrow and watch peoples reactions as I interrupt their station they're listening to
I hear the FM Transmitter can actually be pretty powerful, I'm about to find out
You can do what I did with mini itx for eons.
Anyone temperature tested a case like that with the Pi?
^I'm going to build this one.
