[mythtv-users] Raspberry Pi now ships with 512MB RAM

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Per Hatlevik <jakeisawake at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well the code is there in xbmc, and presumably omxplayer.
>>
>
> as far as i could tell raspbmc just uses omxplayer.

Actually this quote from the page I pointed to would support that:

"As many of you are aware, XBMC has already been available on the
Raspberry Pi for quite some time. However, until now, that support has
not been a part of mainline XBMC. With this change, OMXPlayer (the
player used to playback 1080p video on the ARM powered Pi) enters
mainline XBMC as do many under the hood features for ARM and
RaspberryPi support."

Also from the OMXPlayer git page:

"OMXPlayer is a commandline OMX player for the Raspberry Pi. It was
developed as a testbed for the XBMC Raspberry PI implementation and is
quite handy to use standalone. "

My point was though that there must be some code there to crib from.
OMXPlayer is GPL2.

> i don't have a ton
> of experience with xbmc, do they even have an internal player?
>

For other platforms I am unsure, I know there is some sort of setting
to change the player if you want to, but I assumed (perhaps wrongly)
that if you left the setting at the default, you would be using xbmc
code rather than something external. So I don't know.