![]() I had to adjust my screen alignment, but I am also using an older TV. Menu transitions are fluid, even during playback. Spent an hour trying to figure that out.īesides that, everything runs very smooth. In case you are curious, I had it plugged into the wrong input and then not plugged in at all. Also, after closing the menu while the video was still playing in the background, I have noticed a slight increase in the playback speed as if it were trying to catch up, but that might just have been because of the amount of time I had spent in the menu while troubleshooting a sound issue. When trying to access the menu during playback it takes 3-4 seconds before it displays, but that's trivial in my opinion. There are only a couple of places where I can say I have experienced "lag". I don't have a WiFi dongle to test out the wireless, but my wireless sucks anyways. Over a network cable I have not seen any lag. I use network shares from my main computer, and my roommates, to watch videos in the living room. Like Stu, I'm using XBian on my Pi and have a few different computers networked to it. This thread is a little old, but figured I'd give my 2 cents anyways. if all you need is multimedia player, buy something else, some finished product designed for this purpose. So my suggestion is - if you plan on learning something about Linux, embedded devices, multimedia etc and are willing to spend some time reading about that and experimenting and having working multimedia device is only a bonus, Raspberrypi will be good choice. It may not be simple enough to get it working without problem and this is what you are looking for. PS3 MEDIA SERVER LAGGING VIDEO SOFTWAREHardware is powerful enough (if you can transcode everything to h264) but software is not mature enough and has some glitches. I believe it's not a good question because it's not really power issue here. To sum up - you asked if it's powerful enough. But this may take some time to get there. Most of the issues mentioned above will be invalid after some time as it will probably be fixed. Especially if you are planning on using Wifi. You may need to use good active hub to connect USB devices. PS3 MEDIA SERVER LAGGING VIDEO DRIVERSMost of them are addressed right now in new versions of software but there may be some more.īecause of the way USB on RaspberryPi was designed and because of the drivers issues, there may be problems with some USB keyboards or other remote contollers. And since network chip is also connected using USB, there may be some glitches. There are also problems with USB on Rpi, this wont let you use USB card to make audio problems go away. There are some problems with sound as it's drivers are not good quality AFAIK XBMC is using OpenGL ES which does use hardware acceleration so it's not a problem if you plan on using it. This is why you found some informations about slow GUI rendering. Normal graphical environment (X server) does not use accelerated graphics. Also bear in mind that omxplayer is quite young project and while it's quite stable, it's not perfect (like most things on RPi dedicated software). ![]() If you are planning on running your own distribution, you have to integrate omxplayer. It is used by RaspBMC so if you plan on using this solution, you should have no problem. And hardware decoding only works with dedicated video player (omxplayer). But you will have to transcode all your material that is in different formats. ![]() Graphics chip on RaspberryPi is VERY powerful and if video is encoded with a format supported by the hardware decoder, it can easily play HD content 1080p. You can buy a licence key to enable additional hardware decoders from RPi foundation (currently you can buy MPEG2 and VC-1 license). Hardware acceleration has to be used but by default only H264 can be hardware accelerated. ![]() The CPU of RaspberryPi is quite low-end and it can't really decode video at decent speed (even SD MPEG2). However here are a couple of glitches you may encounter: So a lot of people are running raspberrypi as media center with success. It was never designed to be media center it just happens to be possible to use it like that. Currently RaspberryPi is more oriented to developers than to normal users. They are worked on all the time but still, it's not yet as polished as it could be. First of all, remember that software for RaspberryPi is in early state of development and there are a lot of problems with it. ![]()
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