[H-GEN] media centre

[Julian DeMarchi]

On 02/05/2013 02:45 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> It all went well for my test as a Linux platform for student experiments
> but not so much as a media centre so I bought another SD card for $20
> and installed Raspbmc (there is a tool that writes a bootable tool to
> the card that runs and installs a variant of Debian with the required
> XBMC support that boots straight into XBMC).
> 
> In XBMC I then installed plugins for Youtube, TedTalks,  iView (and
> other catchups) and a mythtv client.
> 
> The XBMC user interface is pretty slow but when it comes to running HD
> video there were no problems.
> 
> It looks like I need to purchase a codec for mpeg (a few dollars) to run
> the mythtv client (at the moment I get audio but no video).
> 
> The extra nice thing is that the tv remove will drive XBMC (although
> entering text is a bit of a pain - but there is an Android app for that
> :) )

100% what I ended up doing with mine with 1 deviation. I used a logitec
clamshell bluetooth keyboard. Perfect!

I have yet to purchase the codecs for mine however.

I also pwoer my Pi off the USB out on my T.V. Turn the tellie on, the Pi
is on! :)

Brilliant peice of hardware IMHO.

--julian