Raspberry Pi as a media centre

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Seems to work fine :cool:

http://www.raspbmc.com/

Just downloaded the standalone image and it worked first time. Didn't seem to want to see a usb hard drive, but that might be to do with some weird formatting of the drive. Pendrive OK. Into a samsung sa300 monitor , sound straight out of the Pi 3.5mm into radio aux socket. Sounds and looks fine. Pulling 400mA. :cool:
 
Raspberry Pi? Bulky, expensive, clumsy things! Have you seen this

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That stick thing is not a media centre, raspbmc is.
Especially if you have an older TV (which I do) the Pi allows to watch internet content on tv.
And with a big drive you can watch video too.

So far I only found one thing that is wrong with it and that is that I can only play individual songs, it stopped playing "albums"...
 
SvenH said:
That stick thing is not a media centre, raspbmc is.
Especially if you have an older TV (which I do) the Pi allows to watch internet content on tv.
And with a big drive you can watch video too.
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It certainly can be. It has HDMI output and I have used it for exactly that.
 
Conachair said:
Seems to work fine :cool:

http://www.raspbmc.com/

Just downloaded the standalone image and it worked first time. Didn't seem to want to see a usb hard drive, but that might be to do with some weird formatting of the drive. Pendrive OK. Into a samsung sa300 monitor , sound straight out of the Pi 3.5mm into radio aux socket. Sounds and looks fine. Pulling 400mA. :cool:
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Enable sound over HDMI and you can avoid the audio cable.
 
agurney said:
Enable sound over HDMI and you can avoid the audio cable.
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Not poss in this case, it's a VGA monitor through a HDMI adaptor. WHich cost quite a bit more than the Pi :eek:

Bit does sound great through the aux in on the radio system, at the cost of another 0.5A.
 
Conachair said:
Seems to work fine :cool:

http://www.raspbmc.com/

Just downloaded the standalone image and it worked first time. Didn't seem to want to see a usb hard drive, but that might be to do with some weird formatting of the drive. Pendrive OK. Into a samsung sa300 monitor , sound straight out of the Pi 3.5mm into radio aux socket. Sounds and looks fine. Pulling 400mA. :cool:
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Can the Raspberry Pi provide enough current to spin up the hard disk?
 
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