OK i got dumb question. Now that the cubieboard is announced I am curious.. the raspberry pi is 700Mhz core vs the cubieboard of 1GHz, but both have the Mali-400 GP, so

1. Does this mean the cubie might be more capable in movie playbacks? Basically is the GPU's ability tied to the CPU's in SoC?

2. Does this mean we have to wait for another cubieboard port of XBMC like raspBMC?

Cubie more expensive but feature looks nice, raspberry pi I can overclock up to 900mhz and stable

Cubie looks like clone of Raspi but with faster cpu more RAM. and a few extras.
Should run raspBMC straight, but without the "extra" features.

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Added on September 8, 2012, 9:55 amCubieboard not fast enough?
Try the quad core ODROID-X

https://www.geek.com/articles/chips/odroid-x-is-like-a-quad-core-raspberry-pi-for-129-20120712/

This post has been edited by totally_skint: Sep 8 2012, 09:57 AM

Received my Raspi from element14 today. It's the rev2 made in the UK. Woot woot!

The SATA port is really good for attaching SATA HDD for media center purpose...

4GB flash on-board, no need a SD card...

Of coz, we always welcome more and more RAMs!!!!

But with SD card so easy to swap OS.

just to share my experience ordering from element14.

i order
RM111.00 SBC, RASPBERRY PI, MODEL B RASPBRRY-PCBA RASPBERRY-PI
RM31.93 ENCLOSURE, RASPBERRY PI, CLEAR MC-RP001-CLR
RM6.46 LEAD, USB A MALE-MICRO B MALE
RM0.70 DIODE, DO-35,100V,200MA

some of the item not in stock but i just order so my total order is rm150.09

they sent my package in 3 shipment

1)RM111.00 SBC, RASPBERRY PI, MODEL B RASPBRRY-PCBA RASPBERRY-PI
RM0.70 DIODE, DO-35,100V,200MA


2)RM31.93 ENCLOSURE, RASPBERRY PI, CLEAR MC-RP001-CLR

3)RM6.46 LEAD, USB A MALE-MICRO B MALE

i just received my final shipment. i need to login to element14 website later to check. hopefully they did not charge for the other 2 shipment.

No. They won't charge extra for shipment.

We will swap sata hahaha, RPI was abit unstable on sd for intense io, it will hang I tested

What kind of OS and application you tested with?

Running a apache PHP webserver, and image downloader (picture grabber stuff) about 1 download per 10 sec, and queued 30 files at sametime.

Finally get my Pi today. Load with Raspbmc and stream 1080p movie and it laggy while 720p is fine.

stream from your pc? external harddrive? wifi or ethernet?


I play mine via class6 sandisk 32gb SD card. Smooth

- it takes some time to copy over via putty psftp.

Stream from PC via ethernet and external HDD. Both same result.

try this thread on raspbmc.

http://forum.stmlabs.com/showthread.php?tid=1269

Does it lag if you copy the file over to the SD card?

I seen some people saying to run xbmc properly they up the swap file on the SD card. Forgot where I saw it though. I tried looking but yet to find it.



This thread probably has more stuff that relates to your problem.

http://forum.stmlabs.com/showthread.php?ti...ghlight=sony+tv

This post has been edited by skywardsword: Sep 11 2012, 11:32 PM

My Pi is arrive yesterday. order on friday. but is at my friend house now

I got around to do some testing with raspbmc + transmission. I have it connected to sony tv40BX420 - donnu got DTS or not, but seems like it works, got an old Pioneer Dolby Surround sound amp that was was working for a Lazer disc player. The sound pass thru to the amp no problem, tv also got sound at the same time.(reason i mention this is because, other people on raspbmc forum has reported that if your tv/receiver cannot decode DTS, forcing raspberry pi to cpu decode will cause lag in 1080p)

*** also try to change the refresh rate of your video to match your video files framerate, could work.

After muddling around with it twice. Since I made the noob mistake of running apt-get update & upgrade manually.

Anyhow 2nd time also mess up the first ssh in config...

I dled a test file Gangnan style from youtube. 178mb


using psftp to put it onto Raspberry pi.



My refined raspbmc + transmission installation. Note: I have yet to set up smb or nfs or an external harddrive. Running purely on 32gb SD card. I have a seagate 250gb external slim hdd, which i doubt will work since it draws entirely via usb connection.

I set my transmission to 40 peers, download limit of 50-80, up of 5-9, since i using lousy streamyx connection only... I was able to play the 1080p file and sustain 80KB/s download, 8up.

I used information from this page and modified a bit to my purpose





I created extra folders, but not sure if it could be properly used by transmission. The last install of xbmc that i did with raspbian, the entire 32gb got filled and i end up wiping the whole sd card since, it refused to delete stuff in rubbish can. So it could be a chmod problem.


**** the raspbmc - totally got my sony tv remote's cec to work on it. Fast forward works, backwards doesnt. Stop, play, next all works. Yippee free remote!

How do you get your Pi to utilize the 32GB? Use Gparted? And what is the idle CPU usage? Mine always 100% even idle. Guess I need to fine tune some setting.

And CEC not work with my Panasonic TV.

Hmm, raspbmc installation, took care of partitioning. So I did not have to do any additional partitioning. (previous debian had to do the partition expanasion to fill entire 32gb, since the raspbian started, the first time boot, they got like a config program to run and do that job



Initially was at 100%, after 10minute or so is at 75%


CEC, did you go into the setting and see if your is enabled? go to system, setting/system or something like that. special one on input.


I cant figure out why though, just one morning of dling some jdrama and it seems to have taken up 10gb of space when I just dled actually 2gb of stuff. weird.

When connected to my Samsung TV it detects CEC compatible device and auto enabled CEC (the prompt appears for a few seconds on the lower right of the home screen). The basic remote buttons (up,down,left,right,enter) works as expected, but other buttons gave unpredictable results.

No CEC prompt appears when connected to my older model Sharp TV.