Raspberry Pi - $35 Linux computer

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I MakeMKV'ed one of my movies, and the Pi plays just the audio, no video!

This is rapidly failing my 'just works' criteria for a media player :(
 
Why won't it play vobs by the way? Jerky or just simply won't play? XBMC supports vob files so I don't see why it wouldn't.
 
Turns out the Raspberry Pi isn't licensed to play MPEG2 using hardware acceleration, and its not powerful enough to do it on the CPU, so MPEG2 support is simply disabled.

It's a restriction of the hardware, not XBMC.
 
Ok done a bit more research and turns out just running my VOBs through MakeMKV isn't enough either, I'd have to fully re-encode them, which I'm not going to do.

So once the peripherals I ordered arrive its going on eBay and the MM here.
 
Skeeter said:
It's a restriction of the hardware, not XBMC.
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Nothing is wrong with the hardware, it's the firmware that lacks the license to decode MPEG2 via the GPU. The only reason this was not included was due to the high cost demanded by the MPEG consortium for a license.

Another solution would be to uses a transcoding UPNP media server. You use another (high power) computer to transcode the MPEG2 videos on-the-fly into something the RPi can handle. It's not a very neat solution, but it could do the job until you find something that better suits your needs.
 
I've already got a full on desktop PC that plays everything I have through Media Center. The Pi was an experiment to see if it could replace it. Turns out it cant (easily) but its still been worth the test, and the Pi remains a great bit of kit.

I'm going to go back to the Windows 7 PC for the time being, all be it switching to XBMC as my front end, while I look into other more powerful linux options for an embedded XBMC experience. Something like the Pi but more powerfull and with a premade OpenELEC release would be spot on.
 
Skeeter said:
I've already got a full on desktop PC that plays everything I have through Media Center. The Pi was an experiment to see if it could replace it. Turns out it cant (easily) but its still been worth the test, and the Pi remains a great bit of kit.

I'm going to go back to the Windows 7 PC for the time being, all be it switching to XBMC as my front end, while I look into other more powerful linux options for an embedded XBMC experience. Something like the Pi but more powerfull and with a premade OpenELEC release would be spot on.
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I hope to use a Pi for a 1080p DTSHD-MA box, can you elaborate on the problems you have had. Maybe I need to rethink.
 
How would you use HDMI-CEC with Viera Link?

There's no mode button on the TV remote for other devices...

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Basic CEC worked from my Sony TV to Raspbmc out of the box. By basic I mean the direction buttons and return and stuff. Never tested the video controls though.

There no need to change the device on the remote, it just passes the button presses to the device that's on the screen if it can.
 
Just got my Raspberry Pi at Nokia AC-10X power cable, now just waiting on my delivery of SD card, HDMI cable and Ethernet cable :(

Quick question to raspbmc users, does it come with/possible to get a browser for it as it would be cool if I could monitor my sabnzb client through it (which runs as a web server on my PC), and is it possible to watch youtube content on it? Any other tips/tricks/info I need to know about with raspbmc? I plan to control it with the android app so controls shouldn't be an issue.
 
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