OpenELEC

[Todd Howe]

I use OpenElec on my RasbPi which is nice, and lighter than RaspBMC, though
the interface is a wee bit sluggish still. Can't be bothered overclocking it.

It's perhaps ironic that the weak link in my media system is the multicore MythTV
server, probably a couple versions old now - it needs restarting sometimes to avoid
occasional stuttering. I've absolutely no idea how to troubleshoot that just yet.

But yeah, OpenElec is slick.

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On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 03:01:20PM -0500, Alex Volkov wrote:
> I run RasBMC on Raspberry Pi as a media center and can assure you raspberry
> pi has no problem playing 1080p videos, 96% of the area of the main chip is
> used for video encoding/decoding and I successfully played files  encoded
> as mp4, avi, and mkv -- I've even played the videos over the network using
> NFS. Sometimes it takes a couple of seconds to load the video, but
> otherwise playback is perfect.
> (Several people working on raspberry pi project mentioned that the chip was
> originally designed for stand-alone media players, and the remaining vacant
> 4% of the die area was used for a general-purpose cpu).
> 
> Raspbmc setup is pretty easy, just dd an image to SD card and connect
> raspberry pi to your tv -- http://www.raspbmc.com/download/. I suggest
> using standalone image, as network updates could be annoying.
> 
> Several issues I've noticed with raspberry pi as a media center player:
> 
>  * if you are playing a video over samba  it may cause some issues as samba
> protocol is rather CPU-intensive (thanks Microsoft!).
> 
>  * No youtube videos, and this seems the biggest downside
> 
>  * All proprietary formats such as WMV aren't playable.
> 
>  * Obviously, no netflix.
> 
> By the way Beagle Bone Black, though superior to Raspberry Pi in almost
> every other respect, has video decoder chip that not nearly as powerful and
> can only play 720p video at best.
> 
> 
> Alex.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 2:36 PM, teddy <teddymills-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > It is a linux distro so it is relevant.
> >
> > http://openelec.tv/
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHDddt4LhEk
> >
> > Unless you like to fuss with Raspberry I do not see the need for a
> > Raspberry or a Beagle.
> > I think these small units have trouble with 1080p playback.
> >
> > I just used a normal PC.
> > Dual Core with a decent DVI video card (6770) and a 2TB WD Green
> > Get a projector and setup your sound and your good to go.
> >
> > I prefer OpenELEC since it is very easy to install and setup.
> >
> > It can be running in 5 minutes and most addons work.
> > In XBMC or MythTV that may not be the case.
> >
> > A remote will be best, as a keyboard is clumsy.
> >
> > Teddy
> >
> >
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