On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com" target="_blank">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Richard Morton<br>
<<a href="mailto:richard.e.morton@gmail.com">richard.e.morton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Have any of you used xbmc on a r-pi?<br>
> All the people I know that bought them for this purpose gave up on them not<br>
> because it can't playback the video but because the UI was tortuous to<br>
> navigate. Before asking people to write complex code I suggest a few people<br>
> give it a try with a large database of media and report back....<br>
<br>
</div>IMHO this is incorrect, it can be a little slow around the menus but<br>
video plays fine, including h264, SD xvid using the CPU. Haven't tried<br>
mpeg2 as I don't really have much of that.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>WIth the latest <a href="http://xbian.org/">http://xbian.org/</a> 8.2 distro release, the xbmc menus and UI are smooth now. It is significantly better than the prior versions and definitely usable. Video playback has always been smooth. I bought the mpeg2 license and use upnp to access the media on mythbackend to play videos recorded from a HDHR prime.</div>
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As to whoever suggested transcoding SD xvid stuff to h264, why??? Most<br>
xvid stuff is SD and the pi can handle that in CPU. Also transcoding<br>
involves decoding as well as encoding, so once you have decoded, why<br>
not just send it to the screen instead of encoding to h264 and then<br>
decoding to the screen???<br>
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