I think I know why, do you have an old debian release as they changed the username and password in the new ones.
The old one was
pi
suse.
Nerds assemble! Raspberry pi close to launch date.
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I think I know why, do you have an old debian release as they changed the username and password in the new ones.
The old one was
pi
suse.
Just watched a film in the cinema room using the PI
Worked flawlessy in using the Raspbmc build
Streamed and skipped an paused with DTS audio fine.
Very odd for 27 quid and so small lol....The kids were in wonder! lol
Forgot to mention thsi was streamed over the network from the server too
Worked flawlessy in using the Raspbmc build
Streamed and skipped an paused with DTS audio fine.
Very odd for 27 quid and so small lol....The kids were in wonder! lol
Forgot to mention thsi was streamed over the network from the server too
Yeah I am still playing with debian, just tried out omxplayer and oh my god it's amazing, handles 720p fine!
I will see tomorrow, I am pretty sure it can.
Anyone running raspbian here? Heard it's better than squeeze but to be honest, it's actually very good in its current state.
I do want to try Open ElEC and raspbian but I need a few more sd cards. Very pleased so far.
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Arrived today. 
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I don't yet know.
Debian- The most noob friendly, works right out the box
Arch- For those who don't like doing things the easy way
Raspdebian- For those who want a bit more work but want hardware floating point functionality.
Fedora-It just doesn't work lol.
I got my second Pi today it seems, along with a nice t-shirt from Farnell, huge Element 14 logo and small Raspberry Pi one 
Had the first one a couple of weeks but didn't get much time to play with it until this weekend just gone, built and used OpenELEC and it was completely painless which is always nice.
Did some brief testing with some reasonable quality mkv's (~1.3Gb for a 42 minute file) and it performed well, it was a bit laggy when you brought up the menu over the video but for playing the files it was fine.
So yeah, quite impressed with it for £24 should make a nice media player, now to decide whether I really need two or to get rid of one
My main problem is because I can't get Windows 7 to share a directory without requiring a password, ended up using a linux vm and NFS to get the share working for xbmc, but need to sort out a NAS at some point anyway...
Had the first one a couple of weeks but didn't get much time to play with it until this weekend just gone, built and used OpenELEC and it was completely painless which is always nice.
Did some brief testing with some reasonable quality mkv's (~1.3Gb for a 42 minute file) and it performed well, it was a bit laggy when you brought up the menu over the video but for playing the files it was fine.
So yeah, quite impressed with it for £24 should make a nice media player, now to decide whether I really need two or to get rid of one
My main problem is because I can't get Windows 7 to share a directory without requiring a password, ended up using a linux vm and NFS to get the share working for xbmc, but need to sort out a NAS at some point anyway...
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got mine today, were are the cool cases?
You can quite easily mount smb shares with passwords, never played with OpenElec though so maybe it has some restrictions.I got my second Pi today it seems, along with a nice t-shirt from Farnell, huge Element 14 logo and small Raspberry Pi one
Had the first one a couple of weeks but didn't get much time to play with it until this weekend just gone, built and used OpenELEC and it was completely painless which is always nice.
Did some brief testing with some reasonable quality mkv's (~1.3Gb for a 42 minute file) and it performed well, it was a bit laggy when you brought up the menu over the video but for playing the files it was fine.
So yeah, quite impressed with it for £24 should make a nice media player, now to decide whether I really need two or to get rid of one
My main problem is because I can't get Windows 7 to share a directory without requiring a password, ended up using a linux vm and NFS to get the share working for xbmc, but need to sort out a NAS at some point anyway...
There shouldn't be a password though, and even if I set one on my user account it doesn't want to log in, or as a guest account if I enable that, it's just windows being special, doesn't work windows 7 to windows 7 either with my housemates machine.
Did do some googling, few threads with the same problem but no resolution that worked for me so I gave up after half an hour or so and setup the vm to do it, which took all of 20 seconds and works fine
EDIT: Sorry for the OT anti-ms rant, I do hate it when that happens
Did do some googling, few threads with the same problem but no resolution that worked for me so I gave up after half an hour or so and setup the vm to do it, which took all of 20 seconds and works fine
EDIT: Sorry for the OT anti-ms rant, I do hate it when that happens
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Pushed my Pi a little hard and tinkered a little too much. Poor thing is kernel panicking like a bitch.
Rebuild on the cards. Need to squeeze more out of her this time...
Rebuild on the cards. Need to squeeze more out of her this time...
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where are the links for xmbc port?
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Mine arrived today, unfortunately for the price they are going for at the moment on ebay Im selling mine. 45 pounds already..! (Ill just buy another one in a months time Im sure!)
Keep saying that, I think that it's not going to improve for a while, demand is massive.