XBMC running on Raspberry Pi

[twenty4seven]

1 week to go. Any more news on how to buy?

[DDY]

1 week to go. Any more news on how to buy?

It will only be available from their own web store.

...If you see a site offering preorders or claiming to be an official reseller at the moment, it’s a fake. Please don’t send them your money. Initially, this site will be the only place you can buy a Raspberry Pi, and we are not offering preorders...

[56kbs]

Although I have generally not got a use for such a device, how can I say no to not buying one? They are very cool bits of kit by the looks of things, especially running xbmc

[melon]

Does any one think it would be powerful enough to run an emulator like GIMX ?

M

[Skinleech]

I finally got my RPi on Wednesday via RS components after getting my invite to order on Friday. I registered my interest on release day at about 6:02 am, so it's taken a while!

I tried OpenElec on Wed afternoon, with limited success, it was freezing often and with a sluggush GUI as reported. I updated to a newer build yesterday, and gave it a quick try and got on much better.

I tried some DVDs encoded to x264 which played fine, as did a BBC HD cap of The Hour I recorded when it aired. I tried an MKV remux of one of my Blu-rays with AVC, also played fine from what I tested. I tried another MKV remux with VC-1 which was allegedly playing, but I got a blank screen only.

This was all through my TV, my inital tests weren't giving an image via my AVR to the TV, so I need to retry.

[Butuz]

Great for watching videos - absolutely useless at being used as a PC with a GUI for anything productive...

Butuz

[directhex]

Great for watching videos - absolutely useless at being used as a PC with a GUI for anything productive...

Butuz

Yep.

The chip on Pi is basically a set-top box chip. It's got a "high end" GPU as far as mobile GPUs go, and the CPU is pretty much the same as the iPhone 1, albeit at 50% higher clock speeds.

So XBMC is what it's *designed for*

[Bluecube]

I've seen versions of Linux running nicely on it. The CPU isn't that low powered, just low powered by today's standards.