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The Pi makes a fantastic media center when combined with XBMC.
by etherealG 12y ago
The Pi makes a fantastic media center when combined with XBMC.
- ern 12y ago"Fantastic" may be overstating it. I've been running Raspbmc for about 15 months now, and although the video rendering is very good, the XMBC UI is a bit laggy and unresponsive (although there seems to have been an improvement recently). I've also used it as an SFTP client and to run a few light cron jobs (rock solid there). Given the price, I am pleased with it, but I wouldn't recommend it as a media center for the non-tech savvy.
- invmatt 12y agoIf you're willing to spend quite a bit of time configuring XBMC it runs smoothly. I use openelec with the theme 'bello', any animation heavy themes will kill it straight away.
- lmedinas 12y agoYou should try Openelec[1] instead. It's much more lightweight and less bugs imho. 1 - http://openelec.tv/ http://openelec.tv/
- ykykkyky 12y agoAgreed. I wish that RPi has some kind of cheap prebuild of a mediaplayer. If would be GREAT for non-techies if it just had a real power on/off switch, IR sensor & a basic remote that just works (probably asking for too much there). I reckon you could fix the lag of the GUI if someone implemented Raspbmc/OpenELEC with Wayland instead of X-server. Not much has to change for this to be possible. Only the power switch & IR sensor would have to be apart of it. Remote could potentially be third party and WBMC would a man hours issue.
- lmedinas 12y agoIt seems Wayland support for XBMC was merged last October[1]. Not sure if it will benefit on RPI. 1 - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ4NDE http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ4NDE
- newman314 12y agoA little bit of an overclock, use SD as boot only with a fast USB stick and things work real snappy.
- MikeKusold 12y agoI've found SFTP to be horribly slow. I would recommend FTP instead so that the CPU doesn't need to do encryption.