Just pumped some SNSD tube mv into pi. (took like 1++ hr via ethernet, psftp, put command, about 3.35gb worth, which didnt like names that got special korean/chinese char...had to clean up the names.) Anyhow, some are 720p, SD and some newer ones are 1080p. Plays perfectly no lag, sounds comes out nice. My setup is just 3.1, but the subwoofer is a technic speaker, that after 20years still works... if you are a sound/speaker guy, you probably know, the surround foam on the thing is flawless, unlike certain karaoke brand speaker that my Mom was using, the foam disintegrated after like 5yr.

I never realise what a gem the old 3.1 speaker offers. Watching things like One Piece, Naruto, Fairy Tail on it, damn the bass is powerful.


All the while playing, the transmission is faithfully dling at 50KB/s. (I know slow, but I dont have unifi, and having the Pi allows me to download and upload constantly.)

My CEC remote, the fast forward works, rewind somehows works like its fast forward too...

I cant figure out how to right click.

For general, play, pause, stop, navigate playlist, skip forward or skip chapter, its ok

Good to hear Samsung TV working ok. I wonder if it is a driver/software support thing. If it is, hopefully it will work better as the support from open source guys increase.


For now, I think I got more then I expected. Works better then the shitty netbook that cost 7 times more then the Pi.
(I will need to find a way to set up network share, or a low power harddisk via ethernet/usb.) I fill up the 32gb way too quickly.
Less then 14hr and i have 15gb left out of the 32gb. If I transfer copy of 720p movie... bam finish

I wonder if something is taking up all those memory...



edit: Apparently, after testing out the "picture" function on the raspbmc, seems like it constantly hang up the program. Causing it to restart. Fortunately, I think the transmission daemon isnt affected. so torrent continues in the background.

This post has been edited by skywardsword: Sep 13 2012, 09:37 PM

This is weird. I played mkv from my SD card. The status bar is progressing, but no video at all. And I stream a 720p mp4 via ethernet, pixelated.

I had change the power source with iPad adapter, still feel the same. The last thing I gonna do is change my SD card. Currently I am using a class 4 micro sd with adapter. But I doubt it affect the performance over ethernet?

Have you mess with the sound setting? turn on DTS/AAC or whats it called.. digital sound receiver to enabled.
(mine is enabled.)

This post has been edited by skywardsword: Sep 13 2012, 10:55 PM

I leave everything to default. Just can't figure out what is the problem.

They say if you dont enable the DTS/ digital sound receiver. that will force the pi to decode the sound stream, causing lag when you switch between 720p file and 1080p files.

If by any chance yours is disable... you can try it just to see?


But I think the class 4 sd card might be suspicious? how many gb and the brand?

They say should avoid lousy brand.

DTS enabled. It's a sandisk 32GB class 4 micro sd. Maybe I should get a class 6 SD card and try it out. If still having the same issue, I don't know what should I do...

how many different file you try? all the same?

I tried few 1080p mkv. All not work. While 720p mp4 it can stream flawlessly sometimes.

From this list http://elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals

32gb class4 should be ok.

(before you run off to buy another one. maybe install fresh raspbmc with your ipad adapter)


I am tempted to get a 64gb SDXC since apparently people get it working.




This post has been edited by skywardsword: Sep 14 2012, 05:28 PM

Anybody for a Raspberry Pi supercomputer (or at least the Lego casing)?
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/lego-super-gallery/?pid=243&viewall=true

anyone got any picture what they are doing with raspberry pi?

Further testing, some of the mkv working fine, while some of the mkv only run below 10fps, that's why the screen black. Not sure what way to solve it.

You can adjust the refresh rate of the xbmc. Under one of the setting>videos

adjust it to the framerates of your videos and try again.

I guess it's a bug. I found someone posted that they have the same issue and developer said that it will fix in RC5.

Finally my CEC working by enable viera-link.

I have my first pixelated file. Hotaru no Hikari 2 E01 720p HDTV x264 mp4 file

Apparently just a 1280X720 file, Mpeg-4 AVC (part10)(avc1)
Frame rate of 29.970574

Audio is mpeg AAC audio (mp4a)

Subtitle is another srt file i downloaded separately.



The file plays fine on my PC desktop. Seems like on Pi, the moving subject is shrouded in pixelation.

File is only about 900mb in size and is on the class 6 sandisk microSD card.

Mine only happened on mkv. Don't know what is the caused. Tried on OpenElec, it still the same.

To all Sifu here,

Raspbmx can play .rmvb and .mpg??? I try it yesterday night, it seem is play the audio only and not run the video ya...........y leh???

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Added on September 16, 2012, 7:46 pmthe CEC is support is really shock me.............nice, i can use my LG TV remote to control XBMC, nice

This post has been edited by tanseehua: Sep 16 2012, 07:46 PM

raspBMX loaded and playing currently via cable from my HP microserver. good so far... very minimal stutter which I think is due to my slow router rather then the pi itself. What do you guys overclock yours to? I only manage CPU@ 825MHz and GPU@375MHz.

BTW is it required for us to manually upgrade the firmware? if so how to do it? didnt seem to work for me based on this https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update

Not sure about .rmvb. But I think .mpg require a mpeg2 license.

If nothing broken. Probably dont need to update.

I am not 100% familiar with raspbmc. While I dabble with debian wheezy/squeeze and then raspbian. I did do the firmware update via the command line.

Now, I think with raspbmc, it is suppose to update itself. The kernel??? I would not update unless instructed via the raspbmc website. I know that running sudo apt-get update/upgrade via the command line did break my first installation of raspbmc.

(Let us know if other Sifu knows otherwise.)

Note: I played one of my oldest 1080p file of Final Fantasy movie via network share smb on a win7pc. It lags every 5-8seconds.

I noticed that, I have mainly just 720p files. 1080p files just takes too long to down and upload. So I have given up on those. 720p files mostly played fine. Some do give problems. I say about 8 out of 10 were fine.
Since I setup my network share, I was able to try out lots of different files.

IDx subtitle files dont work with xbmc.


I give the Pi a score of 7.9 out of 10, as a stream to output unit in the living room, it is cheap and relatively good. If your playing mainly 720p, you should encounter problem 1 in10. 1080p, probably a bit more problem, since streaming might lag things up more. Hardly possible to move a 10gb 1080p on the Pi.

200-500mb 1080p Music videos - those are very very good. Even tested networked shared 1080p of that size, seems to work... may just be the particular file and audio encoding.

I think the multi-subtitle, multi audio track files, will encounter more problems.***just a guess







This post has been edited by skywardsword: Sep 17 2012, 01:37 AM