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Raspberry Pi - An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25

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Odd, I had heard that it was going to nearly impossible to run xbmc on this thing, good to see that it was wrong.

Or was it that you couldn't playback media over the network with xbmc because of some issue, can't remember. In the video they are only doing playback over flash drive.

Ah, its only h.264 playback that is native, anything else and the device may have some issues with it, mainly HD xvid (aka all HD TV shows that are ripped). You'd essentially have to re-encode all your HD TV shows in order to watch it play smoothly on the device (so far anyways).
 
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Agreed it might be a pain to re-encode everything, but slap an external HDD and you are good to go.

Also for $25 I'm sure I can have a lot of fun with this thing.
 
Actually you'll have to buy the 35$ version, as they have stated the 128mb memory 25$ version does not have enough memory to run XBMC. Only the 35$ version, which is 256mb memory (which also has the ethernet connection) will be able to.

35$ for an htpc still isn't bad, just it will be if it can only properly support h.264 as to me anyways time is money. So if I have to rencode every HD tv show I watch, it's not worth the low price. You'll also want to protect this thing in some kind of "case", probably not overly expensive but will drive the total cost of the thing a bit higher.
 
How long will this thing take to scrape all my media files?

What I read about XBMC and Raspberry Pi is that videos will play fine but that the UI will be a laggy (And it was a little laggy in that video.)
 
Arinoth said:
35$ for an htpc still isn't bad, just it will be if it can only properly support h.264 as to me anyways time is money. So if I have to rencode every HD tv show I watch, it's not worth the low price. You'll also want to protect this thing in some kind of "case", probably not overly expensive but will drive the total cost of the thing a bit higher.
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I believe there is a "blog update" by the raspberry pi team pending to clarify hardware codec support. Regardless of hardware support, I don't think there will be an issue supporting non-HD formats.

A viable media player application would only be a minor fringe benefit of the Pi. It, and devices that it inspires, are going to have, literally, thousands of applications.
 
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