The Official RaspberryPi Thread

[abzo]

How have you found them in playing back 1080p content?

[Pakka]

I just got mine today. I'm busy installing raspbmc at the moment. Will report on my findings about how it handles full HD once I tested it a bit!

[trixie53]

Any idea if it will be possible to fit one of these boards into the underside of a monitor base? I guess it depends on the height, but basically something this size:

I am developing a Pi enclosure that fastens to the VESA mount FDMI positions on the rear of most LCD screens, how many would be interested ?

[maeztro]

Any idea if it will be possible to fit one of these boards into the underside of a monitor base? I guess it depends on the height...

Total rough size is 95mm x 66mm x 18mm. That is with the overhanging bits but without anything stuck into it yet.

If you want to place it underneath the monitor base, you could always make a round perspex base to raise the monitor slightly, and position the card inside a cutout in the middle of the circle. Grooved channels for the cables and bob could be your uncle.

[Pakka]

Any body had any success installing Transmission on raspBMC or openELEC?

I'm on openELEC but the download just won't start from the add-ons menu

EDIT: Seems like non of the add-ons for openELEC installs..

[Fudzy]

How smooth are the menus etc?

One thing I've found with both the Fedora and Debian images is the processor takes a huge knock when it's running lxde and it's meant to be lightweight!

[Bluefinllama]

Still waiting on mine, taking too long By the way, have any of you guys tried any of those reverse car camera lcd screens? I think I might just pick one up and convert the 12v power cable somehow :O I don't own an HD TV or anything and I mostly want this for portability.

Here is a class 10 16Gb card for R145 it seems: http://www.pricecheck.co.za/offers/2...0+Memory+Card/

BTW, what are the chances this would work for a monitor? :P http://www.comx-computers.co.za/E164...ap-p-52305.php

[Pakka]

After over clocking mine a wee bit I finally managed to play all my movies through openELEC. Even the big ones!

Menus are okay, I found it to be much snappier when changing the theme of openELEC to Quartz.

Now I'm hoping someone implements an easy to use torrent system that can run with openELEC and I will be very happy.

I can really see us using the Pi as our home theater device. It certainly works better than our current setup that uses the xbox for streaming.

[bekdik]

What speed did you overclock to?

I'm running at 850 without any problems, but I'm not viewing movies.

[froot]

Still waiting on mine, taking too long By the way, have any of you guys tried any of those reverse car camera lcd screens? I think I might just pick one up and convert the 12v power cable somehow :O I don't own an HD TV or anything and I mostly want this for portability.

Here is a class 10 16Gb card for R145 it seems: http://www.pricecheck.co.za/offers/2...0+Memory+Card/

BTW, what are the chances this would work for a monitor? :P http://www.comx-computers.co.za/E164...ap-p-52305.php

That screen will have to be powered by a USB source other than your Pi.
The memory card you have there is a decent one.

[Pakka]

What speed did you overclock to?

I'm running at 850 without any problems, but I'm not viewing movies.

I've got the following now on OpenELEC

arm_freq=865
gpu_freq=380
sdram_freq=400

It works well for playing my movies Seems stable.

I can't get my sdram to overclock though. Causes freezes the whole time

[wily me]

That screen will have to be powered by a USB source other than your Pi.
The memory card you have there is a decent one.

The onboard USB ports are designed for USB devices using one "unit load" (100 mA) of current. Devices using more than 100 mA are incompatible with the Raspberry Pi, and for them a self-powered USB hub is required.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

Read this thread and take note of the 1 ohm resistors across the polyfuses.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/vi...1f81&start=125

[dualmeister]

Raspbian-based SD card image released

We are pleased to announce the release of our first SD card image based on the Raspbian distribution. This is the result of an enormous amount of hard work by Alex and Dom over the past couple of months, and replaces the existing Debian squeeze image as our recommended install. Notably, it is the first official image to take full advantage of the Raspberry Pi’s floating point hardware for, amongst other things, much faster web browsing.

Users who are still using Debian squeeze will definitely want to switch to this, as it contains numerous tweaks and performance improvements to the firmware, kernel and applications. Those who are using the recent Debian wheezy beta will also see a very worthwhile, but somewhat smaller, improvement.

Among many others, we would particularly like to thank:

Mike Thompson and Peter Green from the Raspbian project
Simon Hall for his optimised ARMv6 memcpy() and memset() implementations
Everyone who has contributed to the Raspbian project so far

Special thanks to Edgar (gimli) Hucek, whose omxplayer accelerated media player is preinstalled in this image, and Sergio Conde for his work on packaging it for distribution.

Those interested in the remarkable history of the Raspbian project might like to take a look at this brief timeline. Adam Armstrong has done some benchmarking which demonstrates the benefits of hardware floating point across a range of applications.

As always, the image is available from our downloads page.

Source

[Fudzy]

Raspbian-based SD card image released

Source

Nice!

[qc_fs]

I've got the following now on OpenELEC


It works well for playing my movies Seems stable.

I can't get my sdram to overclock though. Causes freezes the whole time

Just a quick question, where must I put the config file that contains the above info when using Openelec, I know for the Debian release it is under /boot