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I have been playing around with a Pi for a kitchen TV. It's taken a bit of experimentation, but I have finally go there. Overall I am very happy. There are a couple of small issues like tearing of videos when you fast forward and slightly laggy controls, but for 38GBP, including case it's excellent.<br>
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I am using xbmc as a front end with the mythtv plugin and an android phone as a remote. If you want the least hassle install use raspbmc, which has everything built in. I am actually using Arch because I want the box to do some other stuff, which wasn't straightforward using rasbmc.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Ian.</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div style>Actually for a "least hassle" system I would go for openelec as you just copy the image to the SD carc, insert in the pi, switch on and its done. No need to go through further install steps :-)</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>That said both work well :-) I just find openelc lighter weight which will help the pi</div><div style><br></div><div style>I assume you have installed the mpeg2 codec..you didnt mention but I wouldnt expect you to get smooth playback without</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>(Now having a bit more success building mythtv on the pito try it as a slave backend :-) )</div><div style><br></div><div style>Martin</div></div></div></div>