Raspberry Pi - $35 Linux computer

Suarez7 · 13 Apr 2013 at 16:43

Far Cry 3 at 2x1 resolution.

Drukk · 13 Apr 2013 at 17:05

Using mine with raspbmc on the downstairs TV. Works very well.

Dr Delphi · 13 Apr 2013 at 17:31

Suarez7 said:
Far Cry 3 at 2x1 resolution.

pretty sure it could do a bit better than that, that would just be two squares on a screen!

RomanNose · 13 Apr 2013 at 17:33

Main use is for programming assignments and general tinkering.

Drukk · 13 Apr 2013 at 19:47

After a lot of looking around, the best combination for a media server I found seems to be raspbmc or equivalent software on the PI and Plex on your server side. The two seem to work really well together.

Frozennova · 13 Apr 2013 at 20:38

Drukk said:
After a lot of looking around, the best combination for a media server I found seems to be raspbmc or equivalent software on the PI and Plex on your server side. The two seem to work really well together.

Mine is perfect just steaming via samba I've only had one file play badly and that was due to dts audio as the pi hasn't got hardware decoding for it yet

uncle_rufus · 13 Apr 2013 at 20:48

Drukk said:
After a lot of looking around, the best combination for a media server I found seems to be raspbmc or equivalent software on the PI and Plex on your server side. The two seem to work really well together.

I think it probably depends what the server is running... If your server is linux-based then I can't imagine much will beat raspbmc on the pi mounting NFS shares from the server... Samba works but NFS seems to be the best to me (and actually is easier to set up than Samba in my opinion)

IrishChr1s · 16 Apr 2013 at 16:35

Is there a way to get the linux SPSS to work on this?

inSilica · 20 Apr 2013 at 21:27

IrishChr1s said:
Is there a way to get the linux SPSS to work on this?

I would imagine you will have better luck with PSPP (looks like there is an arm binary). Also if you're crunching large data sets it's not going to be very productive, I.e not as fast as you might think.

Is SPSS available for arm? If so I can't see why not

IrishChr1s · 21 Apr 2013 at 11:03

inSilica said:
I would imagine you will have better luck with PSPP (looks like there is an arm binary). Also if you're crunching large data sets it's not going to be very productive, I.e not as fast as you might think.

Is SPSS available for arm? If so I can't see why not

Ahh it was just a mad idea, I've been doing large datasets for a while, but ill stick to the laptop, id hate for anything to go wrong and lose everything.

This has to be my favourite purchase in a long time, I've been messing around with wheezy and Raspbmc, my tablet has been completely retired.

Just ordered a tv mounting bracket from modmypi, and also a Bluetooth dongle, so essentially it will connect to pretty much everything I have.

The dlink powered usb hub has come in so handy, its got an external 500gb hard drive connected, wifi dongle, usb keyboard/mouse dongle, mobile phone charger, and soon a Bluetooth dongle and the Pi hasn't reset once. Definitely a major advantage to power the devices externally.

I also tried a test file on raspbmc, Avengers, 1080p, 32gb file size, and the thing played flawlessly from my usb hard drive. Its made me realise how much I hate my tv, think its time for an upgrade.

PooBrain · 22 Apr 2013 at 10:21

Hello, do any of you lot know where i can get a Raspberry Pi power adapter with a switch on it please?

Frozennova · 22 Apr 2013 at 10:36

PooBrain said:
Hello, do any of you lot know where i can get a Raspberry Pi power adapter with a switch on it please?

This is probably the closest you'll get

http://www.pi-supply.com/buy-it-now/

PooBrain · 22 Apr 2013 at 11:07

ManLoveRulesOK said:
This is probably the closest you'll get

http://www.pi-supply.com/buy-it-now/

Cheers, also do you know if i can use a 32 or 64 GB SD card for extra storage on top of the bit used for installing linux?

Evilpaul · 22 Apr 2013 at 11:48

PooBrain said:
Cheers, also do you know if i can use a 32 or 64 GB SD card for extra storage on top of the bit used for installing linux?

The RPi only supports SDHC cards, so you are limited to a maximum of 32GB. You could connect a USB HD, or even a USB memory stick, if you really need more space.

PooBrain · 22 Apr 2013 at 15:21

Just looked and it appears i'll have to wait 2 weeks on delivery...that's lame.

Frozennova · 22 Apr 2013 at 17:55

PooBrain said:
Just looked and it appears i'll have to wait 2 weeks on delivery...that's lame.

Seems to be standard practice from RS although mine was about 4 days earlier than the 2 weeks initially stated

Joebob · 24 Apr 2013 at 11:58

Just got myself a Raspberry Pi and I'm keen to set it up as a media server. Anyone know if I can get it to stream movies to my PS3?

uncle_rufus · 24 Apr 2013 at 13:12

Joebob said:
Just got myself a Raspberry Pi and I'm keen to set it up as a media server. Anyone know if I can get it to stream movies to my PS3?

You could try putting mediatomb on it, which will let your PS3 stream from it, but I think you'll have to make sure the video files are the right format (as otherwise your Pi will be doing a lot of heavy work to pre-process the files for the stream) Off the top of my head I don't know which format but you could google mediatomb to find out (or see if anyone has it running on the pi)

Joebob · 24 Apr 2013 at 14:49

uncle_rufus said:
You could try putting mediatomb on it, which will let your PS3 stream from it, but I think you'll have to make sure the video files are the right format (as otherwise your Pi will be doing a lot of heavy work to pre-process the files for the stream) Off the top of my head I don't know which format but you could google mediatomb to find out (or see if anyone has it running on the pi)

Ok, thanks. I use PS3 Media Server at the moment, but I have problems with my Windows 7 laptop as the CPU usage seems to max out for no apparant reason!

Maybe I will keep my media library as is and have it streaming to my bedroom TV using the PI to play to TV.

uncle_rufus · 24 Apr 2013 at 18:07

Joebob said:
Ok, thanks. I use PS3 Media Server at the moment, but I have problems with my Windows 7 laptop as the CPU usage seems to max out for no apparant reason!

Maybe I will keep my media library as is and have it streaming to my bedroom TV using the PI to play to TV.

I think the problems you're having with PS3 media server are probably along the same lines - i.e. the server is having to do a lot of work to transcode (ah! that was the word I was looking for before!!!) the media files into a format suitable to stream across to the console, which hits the CPU pretty hard... The Pi is going to be especially useless for this (as it has a weak CPU)

So is your current setup a media library hosted on a Win 7 laptop, and you want to stream to your TV? The Pi can work nicely as a media player, and although you'll have the best results if your server (or laptop etc) is also running some flavour of Linux, I'm sure there are plenty of options to do it from a windows machine.