Rasberry Pi - Open ELEC - Which version?

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SpoonTech

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Hi,

I want to use a raspberry PI as a media centre, running OpenElec + XMBC.
I use a MacBook Pro, which I will be using to setup the SD card.

I have seen images from the following two sites:
http://www.openelec.tv/
http://openelec.thestateofme.com/

From MacOS its easier to use .img for boot disks, however there are so many images.
It seems like those offered on openelec.thestateofme.com are nightly builds and may give me issues. I also don't know whether to use an image containing Frodo or Eden. (I want to use PseudoTV and Supersport Plugin in the future). They do also have a folder: official_images which contains an older image from last year.

What do you guys have on your systems, and if installing fresh, which would you use?
[Raspberry Pi Media Centre users only to advise please]
 
My co-worker got the hi end model about 2 weeks ago, so can't talk as a permanent Pi owner. but played around with it for the day in the office. Loaded up wheezy-raspbian OS and one of the things I did was install VLC and try to watch a movie. Performance was abysmal at best, but at R300 you kind of expect that.

Maybe Raspberry Pi Media Centre is more optimised
 
I'm using Raspbmc version 11 Eden. works great , no issues even on hd stuff. I stream from media server from living room over EOP connection and then connect to my raspberry pi in main bedroom
 
I also use Raspbmc and I can view full HD with no problems, even streaming over the network. Have not tried openelec yet, but I do recommend that you try a stable build of both Frodo and Eden to see which works with the plug-ins you want. Better yet, SD cards are cheap, keep a version of both on hand and swap as necessary.

@FreddyB: VLC is not an option on the Pi yet. The pi has an arm processor and a Broadcom (iirc) GPU. It is closer related to your cellphone than your laptop. XBMC had to be specifically adapted to make use of the hardware acceleration. Until VLC is coded to make use of the specific hardware, it will be unusable. Same reason there is not yet a usable android build for the Pi or why you can't dump any linux distro on there.
 
Hmmm, I'm definately going with OpenElec, just hoping for a comment or two about which version.

@FreddyB, think you have clearly missed out on the Raspberry Pi HTPC 'micro-revolution'. Hardware acceleration for full HD video is supported by XBMC and other apps, so the slower processor doesn't do the heavy lifting.
 
I am running a nightly build OpenELEC-RPi.arm-devel-20130203010843-r13155, has been rock solid so far, found Openelec much more stable than Rasbmc.
 
As a matter of interest, can you still run sickbeard et al on the Pi running OPENELEC or is that pushing it a bit?
 
Chingha said:
As a matter of interest, can you still run sickbeard et al on the Pi running OPENELEC or is that pushing it a bit?
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OpenElec for RPi comes with Sickbeard, CouchPotato etc. installed. Not sure of performance. The XMBC Gui doesn't run in hardware acceleration so CPU gets warm and sits at 95% while browsing the interface.
 
SpoonTech said:
OpenElec for RPi comes with Sickbeard, CouchPotato etc. installed. Not sure of performance. The XMBC Gui doesn't run in hardware acceleration so CPU gets warm and sits at 95% while browsing the interface.
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Speaking of, switching off the rss feed at the bottom speeds up the gui quite a bit. For me anyway.
 
Performance is rather pedestrian for some functions but hey its tiny and cheap!
 
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