Raspberry Pi now available to be ordered in bulk

[Vis1/0N]

Just keep it away from really high quality mpeg because that little ARM processor simply doesn't have the grunt to decode it.

The processor is a decent GPU with a ARM core cpu tagged into it. RPi foundation paid for licensing H264, but licensing mpeg would have added to the price - AFAIK Mpeg decode functionality is there in the GPU but is locked, therefore the ARM core will soft decode it.

[Messugga]

The processor is a decent GPU with a ARM core cpu tagged into it. RPi foundation paid for licensing H264, but licensing mpeg would have added to the price - AFAIK Mpeg decode functionality is there in the GPU but is locked, therefore the ARM core will soft decode it.

Cool stuff, thanks for the additional info.

[Praeses]

Cool! Can you tell me a little bit more about your set up?

It's a raspberry pi with a 16GB SD card in it, ethernet cable..and a HDMI cable
I control it via my android phone - so no keyboard nor mouse necessary. I can do some basic linux stuff by ssh'ing from my PC.

[jannievanzyl]

No suprise, is their nothing you don't run XBMC on? I'm sure you even installed it on your Dishwasher ...

Dishwasher not yet connected to the LAN. At least not the mechanical one, the biological is fully integrated And I'm not done yet. Need to build another 2 composite video XBMC boxes for my centralized media players, to replace the current Netgear units. Was hoping to drop Raspberries in but they are not there yet in terms of usability.

[AfricanTech]

@wilyme thanks and appreciated

Any idea of delivery costs?

Heh! - had lots of spare lego so decided to go with Lego Case - see other thread for pics

[YingYang]

Heh! - had lots of spare lego so decided to go with Lego Case - see other thread for pics

Which thread is that?

[AfricanTech]

Which thread is that?

Here:

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthre...t=raspberry+pi

[Sysem]

Here:

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthre...t=raspberry+pi

Awesome! Will definitely try this

[xrapidx]

Running XBMC on mine

How you finding the performance?

[Messugga]

How you finding the performance?

A buddy of mine runs XBMC on his (Mine is acting as a headless server for downloading, remote access, etc). Anyway, he's fairly happy with it. The distro's are a tad buggy still but they're definitely getting there. It manages to play back a 30-something GB 1080P h.264 copy of Lord of the Rings without any issues.

[Vis1/0N]

The processor is a decent GPU with a ARM core cpu tagged into it. RPi foundation paid for licensing H264, but licensing mpeg would have added to the price - AFAIK Mpeg decode functionality is there in the GPU but is locked, therefore the ARM core will soft decode it.

Latest news, for £2.40 you can now get the hardware decode Mpeg functionality - see http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1839.
They also discovered that H.264 encode was already covered with the H264 playback licence. Great news, now I just need support of the $5 webcams that proliferate on ebay.

[Speedster]

Anybody know where I can get one locally, or do I need to have one shipped from overseas?

[jannievanzyl]

How you finding the performance?

Haven't found it yet...

Menus are very laggy but once the video plays, it's not too shabby. But it's a crappy user experience at the moment.

Suspect we'll need to wait for an optimised build.

[AfricanTech]

Haven't found it yet...

Menus are very laggy but once the video plays, it's not too shabby. But it's a crappy user experience at the moment.

Suspect we'll need to wait for an optimised build.

Agree. Rather sluggish experience. Hopefully we'll get that optimized build soon

[Elro]

Anybody know where I can get one locally, or do I need to have one shipped from overseas?

+1

http://za.rs-online.com/web/generalD...id=raspberrypi says:

'The requested article is expected to be available by 15/12/2012.'