[mythtvnz] Raspberry Pi as a multimedia frontend: first impressions.

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:41 PM, jfp <jfpn at clearfield.com> wrote:
>
> Jut got myself a Raspberry Pi (Model B) and just tried it as a Multimedia Player running XBMC.
>
> The good: It will play Mythtv Freeview DVB-T HD recordings (As well as standard MP4/MKV/AVI's). I've tried TV3 and TV2 recordings, that was quite impressive.
>
> The bad:
> - The interface is a bit sluggish (to be expected)
> - While it plays Mythtv recordings it only does so over NFS, using SMB/(Windows shares) it shows something like a frame a second. Apparently SMB is very expensive CPU wise compared to NFS.
>
> The really bad:
> - Starting playback for HD content takes about 30 seconds.
> - NFS is a bit flaky currently.
>
> It's early days, but it looks promising.
>
> This is using the Openelec distro, you copy it to the SD card and it just works.
> I also tried the Raspbmc distro but it's harder to install and seems to freeze fairly often.

Have you tried the mythbox addon?

What is it like on material where there is no hardware acceleration
support (eg xvid, mpeg2)?