Raspberry Pi as a HTPC

[morkhans]

I'm streaming over LAN from my Windows PC.

Might be worth attaching a USB drive and testing the same movies from local storage.

Make no mistake both Raspbmc and OpenELEC are still in very early day stages, so give it some time to mature. I've had to shelve my ideas of using it for an HTPC because there is no USB audio support yet (I need optical out).

[ghoti]

My download of 6666 roms has finished, now importing all the SNES games. Taking a long time :/ Cant wait to try out Mortal Kombat again

[qc_fs]

After countless hours of struggling with RaspBMC, I fanally decided to try OpenELEC. it's setup was much easier and quicker.

Unfortunately, some of my full HD movies stutter a lot! Very dissapointing!

Does anyone have any advice?

Thanks

I am also experiencing stuttering with certain files, at this stage it seems to be limited to files which include a DTS sound track. One thing I read you can try is to set Openelec to passthrough audio if you have a DTS capable receiver. I can stream 1080p files which contain a AC3 sound track without any issue.

[ghoti]

Does anyone know of a good cheap game controller to use with the XBMC rom manager? I would love to set this up for 2 player games.

[Richardxtc]

Can someone please enlighten me about the actually price, from hearing that the device is $35 to now seeing that that price was excluding VAT so now its $42 and there is another $8 tax fee making it a total of $50 at R8.18 (from Sharenet) so now that makes it R409 from other people reporting to have paid R360? i know its only R49 difference but what about import duties etc? What will the total cost i will pay?

[bekdik]

Can someone please enlighten me about the actually price, from hearing that the device is $35 to now seeing that that price was excluding VAT so now its $42 and there is another $8 tax fee making it a total of $50 at R8.18 (from Sharenet) so now that makes it R409 from other people reporting to have paid R360? i know its only R49 difference but what about import duties etc? What will the total cost i will pay?

This RS site shows Rand prices

[Richardxtc]

This RS site shows Rand prices

When i click the Raspberry PI link it takes me to a place saying Personal or Business, i clicked personal then it takes me to a page saying Enter Site, i click that and it takes me to the International website...no rand values.

[Nerfherder]

My download of 6666 roms has finished, now importing all the SNES games. Taking a long time :/ Cant wait to try out Mortal Kombat again

I want to do this as well... I heard its quite easy to get the xbox controller to work on the pi

[jay-co]

pick the business one

[Richardxtc]

pick the business one

Ha that worked thanks very much!

[jay-co]

still waiting for mi PI to arrive.
if they stay with the delivery times on the order confirmation its gonna be next week Wednesday.

fack i cannot wait

[SFW007]

its my anniversary today

its a month ago today i 1st ordered my piece of the PI

[akescpt]

maybe you should add where you buy these wonderfull toys in the OP. some people might not know where you get them. by people, i mean me, of course.

[cAfstA]

Week 3 of my 10 week wait... Lmao I'm like a kid waiting to unwrap his gift under the xmas tree....

Can't handle the wait anymore.

Let's just hope it doesn't dissapoint as a Media pc

[bar1]

Hey...
If i go from 800 X 600 to full HD (1080i) sound is stuttering ...i have this problem with openelec and raspbmc