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Raspberry Pi is not really good as a media player. It struggles for high quality high bit rate 1080p videos and it is limited with USB 2 and does not have gigab

Raspberry Pi is not really good as a media player. It struggles for high quality high bit rate 1080p videos and it is limited with USB 2 and does not have gigabit ethernet.

skMed 11y ago
I use an older Pi with Raspbmc (osmc) and I can stream 1080P movies just fine. The key is to 1.) Avoid streaming off a slow disk e.g. NAS, 2.) Ensure you have the necessary bandwidth to stream (no slow wifi), and 3.) Pass DTS audio to your receiver for decoding so your PI isn't doing double duty for audio/video.
- papaf 11y ago
  It is also worth looking at NFS if you use a NAS. I have been able to stream movies over terrible Wifi by switching from Samba to NFS. This wasn't with a Pi though.
- _lce0 11y ago
  Initially, I tried this setup.. disk [usb]-> router <-[wifi]-> raspB+ <- tv but it wasn't good for streaming videos over the network. The router was the problem. so when we upgraded to rasp2, I tried this setup.. disk [usb]-> raspB+ <-[eth]-> router <-[wifi]-> rasp2 ..and it's been working like that, flawless, for almost a year so far. The raspB+ shares the media collection over upnp, so we can consume it from pretty much everywhere on the house, and the rasp2 consumes using upnp so when can control it remotely. With a combination of these apps, you can do pretty much everything remotely from your phone.. - upnp: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.droidupnp https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.droidupnp - torrents: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.sugr.gearshift https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.sugr.gearshi... - run stuff: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.littlebytesofpi.pylauncher https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.littlebyteso... Now I just need a good radio support .. any ideas?
theshrike79 11y ago
It streams 1080p h264 just fine, haven't had a single issue yet. The only movie so far I've had problems with was a raw Blu-Ray rip of Pixar's Up that I streamed from my NAS. It has some crazy high bitrates and just refused to play smoothly even with all caches turned up to 11. But that's the only one from hundreds of movies I've tested.
baddox 11y ago
My Raspberry Pi 2 is working great as a media player. I threw OSMC on it (a Linux distribution specifically for Kodi with specific support for Pi's) and it is essentially flawless. It has no problem with high bit rate H264 videos. The lack of gigabit Ethernet isn't an issue. 100Mb Ethernet can easily stream raw Blu-Ray video (not that I've tried that with the Pi 2).
- _lce0 11y ago
  Second this. We also use it as a upnp-server to stream (over usb wifi) music/movies to the kids room. Plus the kids run emulation-station[0] on _top_ of OSMC to play games --we had a hell of fun playing 4 players games. [0] http://emulationstation.org/ http://emulationstation.org/
spottr 11y ago
Not really true for Raspberry Pi 2. I'm running it with Kodi@OpenELEC next to my TV, it's set-up to connect to NFS via WiFi served by one of the SOHO Mikrotik routers. On the other end Synology DS215j NAS is cabled in via 1Gbit. No hiccup on 1080p/720p whatsoever despite WiFi choker, but haven't tried anything bitrate-crazy yet. (For physical media I still just use a PS3.)

Raspberry Pi is not really good as a media player. It struggles for high quality high bit rate 1080p videos and it is limited with USB 2 and does not have gigabit ethernet.

skMed 11y ago

I use an older Pi with Raspbmc (osmc) and I can stream 1080P movies just fine. The key is to 1.) Avoid streaming off a slow disk e.g. NAS, 2.) Ensure you have the necessary bandwidth to stream (no slow wifi), and 3.) Pass DTS audio to your receiver for decoding so your PI isn't doing double duty for audio/video.

papaf 11y ago
It is also worth looking at NFS if you use a NAS. I have been able to stream movies over terrible Wifi by switching from Samba to NFS. This wasn't with a Pi though.
_lce0 11y ago
Initially, I tried this setup.. disk [usb]-> router <-[wifi]-> raspB+ <- tv but it wasn't good for streaming videos over the network. The router was the problem. so when we upgraded to rasp2, I tried this setup.. disk [usb]-> raspB+ <-[eth]-> router <-[wifi]-> rasp2 ..and it's been working like that, flawless, for almost a year so far. The raspB+ shares the media collection over upnp, so we can consume it from pretty much everywhere on the house, and the rasp2 consumes using upnp so when can control it remotely. With a combination of these apps, you can do pretty much everything remotely from your phone.. - upnp: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.droidupnp https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.droidupnp - torrents: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.sugr.gearshift https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.sugr.gearshi... - run stuff: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.littlebytesofpi.pylauncher https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.littlebyteso... Now I just need a good radio support .. any ideas?

theshrike79 11y ago

It streams 1080p h264 just fine, haven't had a single issue yet. The only movie so far I've had problems with was a raw Blu-Ray rip of Pixar's Up that I streamed from my NAS. It has some crazy high bitrates and just refused to play smoothly even with all caches turned up to 11. But that's the only one from hundreds of movies I've tested.

baddox 11y ago

My Raspberry Pi 2 is working great as a media player. I threw OSMC on it (a Linux distribution specifically for Kodi with specific support for Pi's) and it is essentially flawless. It has no problem with high bit rate H264 videos. The lack of gigabit Ethernet isn't an issue. 100Mb Ethernet can easily stream raw Blu-Ray video (not that I've tried that with the Pi 2).

_lce0 11y ago
Second this. We also use it as a upnp-server to stream (over usb wifi) music/movies to the kids room. Plus the kids run emulation-station[0] on _top_ of OSMC to play games --we had a hell of fun playing 4 players games. [0] http://emulationstation.org/ http://emulationstation.org/

spottr 11y ago

Not really true for Raspberry Pi 2. I'm running it with Kodi@OpenELEC next to my TV, it's set-up to connect to NFS via WiFi served by one of the SOHO Mikrotik routers. On the other end Synology DS215j NAS is cabled in via 1Gbit. No hiccup on 1080p/720p whatsoever despite WiFi choker, but haven't tried anything bitrate-crazy yet. (For physical media I still just use a PS3.)