Sep 17 2012, 09:02 PM
QUOTE(skywardsword @ Sep 17 2012, 01:29 AM)
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
I have not had much problem with 720 or 1080p so far... 1080p i dont have many files to try but so far so good. slowdowns occured in some videos today but no problem after restarting smooth throughout the whole 2 hours plus. the OC of the GPU really helped. but the chip is blurdy hot, I even put a "massive" heatsink from a old south bridge chip and it was hot. still waiting for the RAM heatsinks for the other power transistor and ethernet/usb controller.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
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