Raspberry Pi - $35 Linux computer

Evilpaul · 28 Jun 2012 at 15:52

pdw8 said:
Has anybody using raspbmc or openelec got DTS-HD passthrough working?

I've seen the options in the latest OpenELEC builds but my telly doesn't support it, so I can't test it out.

sharingan_sasuk · 28 Jun 2012 at 19:14

Preordered mine. £30 from Farnell UK.

boxman2000 · 29 Jun 2012 at 13:04

WOOHOO - mine came in via DHL today

That's my afternoon sorted

PiKe · 29 Jun 2012 at 13:08

Those receiving them today, how long ago did you order?

Gooner Leroy · 29 Jun 2012 at 15:11

PiKe said:
Those receiving them today, how long ago did you order?

Mine came an hour ago. I ordered mine 1st April apparently (according to my dispatch note) but I'm sure it was before then.

Now.... what am I going to do with this thing?!

pthug · 29 Jun 2012 at 19:26

Gooner Leroy said:
Now.... what am I going to do with this thing?!

Try and take over the world

boxman2000 · 29 Jun 2012 at 22:39

PiKe said:
Those receiving them today, how long ago did you order?

Pre-ordered the day it was released. Paid for in May or right at the end of April, I forget. Ordered with RS.

Farnell do seem much quicker. A mate ordred 2 weeks after me and got his a week ago.

timmy85 · 30 Jun 2012 at 11:07

just got mine from farnell via post man. Now to find an old mobile phone charger......

Dist · 30 Jun 2012 at 13:20

Are they going to ramp up production any time soon? I really want to get my hands on one of these now and have signed up to a couple of the UK places that stock it to be emailed when they are available again, but so far nothing.

MarcLister · 30 Jun 2012 at 14:08

Dist said:
Are they going to ramp up production any time soon? I really want to get my hands on one of these now and have signed up to a couple of the UK places that stock it to be emailed when they are available again, but so far nothing.

I'm not 100% sure but I do know that they want to target September for release of Raspberry Pi's for school so it could be August/September when they ramp up production.

I think it is down to RS and Farnell to produce this now?

PiKe · 30 Jun 2012 at 14:28

Wasn't part of the delay initially due to not having a CE stamp, or was that before they were even available for pre-order?

Longbow · 30 Jun 2012 at 14:44

I think the CE only set them back a week or two if that.

rexehuk · 30 Jun 2012 at 19:02

It's here!!!

Arrived back from a night out minutes ago, and now my screen says Installing Root Filesystem (go grab a coffee)

YES SIR.

RomanNose · 30 Jun 2012 at 22:06

Anyone been following that fishpi project?
It's nice in ideas but I can see huge flaws in their design sadly.

rexehuk · 1 Jul 2012 at 10:08

Bit miffed.

Got Raspbmc installed... and it seems to be very slow? Playing 720p TV series MKV and it isn't smooth at all... pauses etc.

CPU usage looks to be 50-70% idle :/

Is OpenELEC more stable?

jaybee · 1 Jul 2012 at 10:20

rexehuk said:
Bit miffed.

Got Raspbmc installed... and it seems to be very slow? Playing 720p TV series MKV and it isn't smooth at all... pauses etc.

CPU usage looks to be 50-70% idle :/

Is OpenELEC more stable?

I thought people prevously had full 1080p rips running ok? This can't be right?

kierenharrold · 1 Jul 2012 at 10:30

rexehuk said:
Bit miffed.

Got Raspbmc installed... and it seems to be very slow? Playing 720p TV series MKV and it isn't smooth at all... pauses etc.

CPU usage looks to be 50-70% idle :/

Is OpenELEC more stable?

I've found openELEC to use more memory but use about the same cpu usage.

1080p playback is a bit hit and miss for me. But 720p and SD works flawlessly for me.

make sure you have a decent network, streaming over wireless will only cause a lot of pain go wired over a gigabit network.

Longbow · 1 Jul 2012 at 10:33

rexehuk said:
Bit miffed.

Got Raspbmc installed... and it seems to be very slow? Playing 720p TV series MKV and it isn't smooth at all... pauses etc.

CPU usage looks to be 50-70% idle :/

Is OpenELEC more stable?

DTS audio or AC3?

DTS audio always causes issues for me.

rexehuk · 1 Jul 2012 at 11:07

Longbow said:
DTS audio or AC3?

DTS audio always causes issues for me.

Think it's DTS... would have all been default Raspbmc.

As for the network it's wired into gigabit switch running at around 80-120MB/s, so that isn't the issue.

rexehuk · 1 Jul 2012 at 11:14

Turned off DTS... seemed to be playing ok...

Same thing just happened, it pauses but the video counter is still going?

Anyone got Android remotes working with the Raspbmc build?

I'm using RASPBMC 12.0 ALPHA3 compiled June 20 2012