Raspberry Pi - $35 Linux computer

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Wondering if someone can help me out. Trying to find out the biggest file size the Pi can play. All i see is 1080p files. But i've got 1080p files that are a few GB's, to full bluray rips that are 20gb+. Can the Pi play such large files?

I've got a feeling i'll need to crack Handbrake out again and start encoding.
 
MarcLister said:
Ah, I get you now. :)

That example looks nice. What is it called? Can't find anything on the main site.
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I'm pretty sure they've done that just using a combination of HTML/CSS and Javascript... So it's not really an "off-the-shelf" product as such, you'd have to write some code to get the results you want (but that's also it's strength - you can customize it to be just what you're looking for)... Still I think with some digging around (I'll take a look tomorrow, about to hit the hay!!) you could probably find the source-code for a basic slideshow page which would be a good starting point, and build in the RSS and stuff from there... Sound okay?

Edit: I couldn't resist doing a little digging... here's the article where I found that example:

http://designshack.net/articles/jav...-photography-slideshow-website-without-flash/

It is actually a tutorial which would act as a reasonable starting point to get to where you want (though as it's got slightly different aims in mind it will probably require a bit of tweaking to your needs)... Skimming it it looks as though they are using Jquery (Javascript basically)... He starts from a pre-made (and free) plugin for Jquery which gives a sort of slideshow effect and then customises it by removing the slideshow controls etc. to get the final result... So yeah - have a read and you should get an idea at least of what's involved... And of course note that this is only one of several possible approaches (which would be similar but not exactly the same) - this is pretty much the first result I found on Google which sounded along the right lines

Kobi said:
Wondering if someone can help me out. Trying to find out the biggest file size the Pi can play. All i see is 1080p files. But i've got 1080p files that are a few GB's, to full bluray rips that are 20gb+. Can the Pi play such large files?

I've got a feeling i'll need to crack Handbrake out again and start encoding.
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I'm sure someone said to me they had ~30Gb bluray rips playing on their Pi perfectly fine so I would give it a go before you spend hours encoding :D
 
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MarcLister said:
I've been wondering if I could use a Raspberry Pi to replace the PC. The plasma screen is quite old so no HDMI. I can use the component instead. Is there some kind of Powerpoint-esque application I could use on the Pi that would allow me to integrate a scrolling RSS feed and design a new plasma screen layout? I just think a nice, small, low energy, cheap Raspberry Pi would be a cool solution to our little problem.
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There was quite a bit of discussion about this over on the raspberrypi forums, it might be worth searching through the projects sections and see if someone has put something together already....

e.g.:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=12396
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=51807
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=29397
 
uncle_rufus said:
I'm sure someone said to me they had ~30Gb bluray rips playing on their Pi perfectly fine so I would give it a go before you spend hours encoding :D
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When you start getting to those sort of file sizes then you are going to want your transport costs to be as low as possible, so local storage (USB HDD) would be advisable.
Also, while the RPi can handle the video streams through the GPU all the audio goes through the CPU. Even if you're passing through the audio stream to an external decoder over HDMI, if you've got multiple audio streams in the file you are going to get jerky playback.
 
uncle_rufus said:
I'm pretty sure they've done that just using a combination of HTML/CSS and Javascript... So it's not really an "off-the-shelf" product as such, you'd have to write some code to get the results you want (but that's also it's strength - you can customize it to be just what you're looking for)... Still I think with some digging around (I'll take a look tomorrow, about to hit the hay!!) you could probably find the source-code for a basic slideshow page which would be a good starting point, and build in the RSS and stuff from there... Sound okay?

Edit: I couldn't resist doing a little digging... here's the article where I found that example:

http://designshack.net/articles/jav...-photography-slideshow-website-without-flash/

It is actually a tutorial which would act as a reasonable starting point to get to where you want (though as it's got slightly different aims in mind it will probably require a bit of tweaking to your needs)... Skimming it it looks as though they are using Jquery (Javascript basically)... He starts from a pre-made (and free) plugin for Jquery which gives a sort of slideshow effect and then customises it by removing the slideshow controls etc. to get the final result... So yeah - have a read and you should get an idea at least of what's involved... And of course note that this is only one of several possible approaches (which would be similar but not exactly the same) - this is pretty much the first result I found on Google which sounded along the right lines
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Evilpaul said:
There was quite a bit of discussion about this over on the raspberrypi forums, it might be worth searching through the projects sections and see if someone has put something together already....

e.g.:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=12396
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=51807
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=29397
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Nice one. Both of you! :)
 
Thought I'd ask for help again, got my second RPI setup in the bedroom, identical setup as the living room. When searching samba share it finds my laptop and the living room rpi share that I had setup.

I can connect to the laptop using the login username and password, but for the life of me I cannot find what username and password it wants to connect to the living room RPI. I've tried them all and no success.

Any ideas?
 
uncle_rufus said:
Forgive my foolishness, but why does it need to connect to the other Pi?
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My first Pi has all my files on a external hard drive. I have this hard drive shared on the network. I want to stream these files across to a second pi in another room.

Both pi are running raspbmc latest version.
 
Okay I take it you've tried the default password for the share? (pi - raspberry)

Pi to Pi I'd have thought an NFS share would be a more reliable (not to mention faster) way to connect. I'll check on my Pi later to see whether raspbmc has an automatic NFS option like it does with SAMBA, but if it doesn't it shouldn't be too difficult to setup yourself
 
Pi up and running! Ok, question. My SD card has raspbmc on it and i've got a usb stick with raspbmc on it. How do i know the Pi is running off the usb stick?
 
Kobi said:
Pi up and running! Ok, question. My SD card has raspbmc on it and i've got a usb stick with raspbmc on it. How do i know the Pi is running off the usb stick?
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Did you use the raspbmc installer and select the USB option?

If you did it some other way then you could check by exiting XBMC, to drop yourself to a terminal and then you'll want to check where the root of the filesystem is mounted. I don't have a linux system to hand to confirm this is 100% accurate but I believe you need to run

Code: 
df -h
This should list the sizes of your mounted devices - showing the location of each device (which should start with something like /dev/) and the location where the device is mounted. From this you'll be able to tell but without checking I can't tell you which will be right (I think the USB ports will likely be listed as /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2 or something like that, but the SD slot has a longer name (...Googles...) I think it's /dev/mmcblk0... At any rate you probably want to know which one is mounted at "/" (root) :D

Hope that helps, sorry I can't be more specific

Edit: Sorry the command was "df -h" not "du", changed it above
 
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Launched my Pi last night and got lots of text in the bootup sequence complaining about something, I held down Shift for recovery mode.. but there's no option to repair your installation just install it all again :/
 
MarcLister said:
I've been wondering if I could use a Raspberry Pi to replace the PC. The plasma screen is quite old so no HDMI. I can use the component instead. Is there some kind of Powerpoint-esque application I could use on the Pi that would allow me to integrate a scrolling RSS feed and design a new plasma screen layout? I just think a nice, small, low energy, cheap Raspberry Pi would be a cool solution to our little problem.
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Have a look at Xibo; it's a open source display signage solution. It might be a little OTT for a single display setup but it offers a decent array of features and is relatively straight forward to get to grips with.
 
If you want to autostart an application on startup simply copy the appropriate .desktop file from /usr/share/applications to the directory ~/.config/autostart (creating the autostart directory if it does not already exist).
 
I use OpenELEC as I'm easily able to track the changes introduced and build it myself. It is also designed to do one job, and do it well.
If you want to do more stuff than XBMC provides (e.g. download server, etc.) then you need to look at Raspbmc or XBian.
 
All I want to do is play videos/mp3 shared from my server.


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Have got 5 of them in work, they use 2W doing their streaming radio through VLC :)
 
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