Raspberry Pi – DIY Media Player

[disorganizer]

hopefully someone build a nice box around the board and brings this as an open source media box into the customer market

[minorityracer]

hopefully someone build a nice box around the board and brings this as an open source media box into the customer market

I'm really keen to see this too - a media centre 'kit' or premade box.

Might be a great little bitorrent client & media centre.

[bond007]

Ordererd mine 2 weeks ago at RS. Delivery time would be 4 weeks max.
Can't wait to start experimenting with XBMC or OpenElec on the PI.

With the full blown features off XBMC (like movie scraper info: automatic downloading of moviesheets,...) I finally can leave this manual moviesheet sh...t behind.

This means the end of my Wdlive period probably....

I think future for mediaplayers is OR Raspberry PI (xbmc) or those Android TV setup boxes

[disorganizer]

would be interesting to see if my needs can be fullfilled by the new sony goolgetv boxes.

if they allow the "normal" android appstore (e.g. for dreambox livetv apps) and work with hdtv.... maybe that will be a stock solution worth buying (if the price fits).

but on the other side... where is the fun in a stock solution just working as expected from the start

[recliq]

but on the other side... where is the fun in a stock solution just working as expected from the start

None!

[recliq]

Got my Raspberry Pi today and tried raspbmcOpenELEC...

As expected it's no replacement for a real mediaplayer like WDTV right now (and I doubt it ever will be).
If you're lucky you can play some 1080p x264 mkv with digital audio pass-through without stuttering (as long as you don't bring up the OSD...),
but as soon as I use mixdown I can't get ANY 1080p movie to play smoothly.

I might add that I only tried playing files over network so far (NFS/uPnP).

Analog audio quality is quite bad as well, this might change with better drivers hopefully.

I'll keep you posted on my XBMC on RPi experiments

[dzebrys]

Got my Raspberry Pi today and tried raspbmcOpenELEC...
As expected it's no replacement for a real mediaplayer like WDTV right now (and I doubt it ever will be).
If you're lucky you can play some 1080p x264 mkv with digital audio pass-through without stuttering (as long as you don't bring up the OSD...),
but as soon as I use mixdown I can't get ANY 1080p movie to play smoothly.
I might add that I only tried playing files over network so far (NFS/uPnP).
Analog audio quality is quite bad as well, this might change with better drivers hopefully.
I'll keep you posted on my XBMC on RPi experiments

i also does not see it as replacement but an RPi beeing driven by XBMC fetching mediainfo
from local database and with its streaming capabilities [many subtitles scrappers support,
huge lib of add-ons] would be nice company to wdlxtv.

[ripper2860]

Got my Raspberry Pi today and tried raspbmcOpenELEC...

As expected it's no replacement for a real mediaplayer like WDTV right now (and I doubt it ever will be).
If you're lucky you can play some 1080p x264 mkv with digital audio pass-through without stuttering (as long as you don't bring up the OSD...),
but as soon as I use mixdown I can't get ANY 1080p movie to play smoothly.

I might add that I only tried playing files over network so far (NFS/uPnP).

Analog audio quality is quite bad as well, this might change with better drivers hopefully.

I'll keep you posted on my XBMC on RPi experiments

I'll be watching closely. I'm afraid the WDLXTV LIVE is nearing the end of its life and development is close to running its course on this product. Not do to lack of creativity or effort, but due to WD doing everything it can to squash outside development with every new firmware release. This and the age of the product are of concern to me. Raspberry Pi may be an avenue to focus this fantastic development community on a truly OpenSource platform without a company doing all it can to kill development. I'm anxious to see if this can become a new development platform allowing our devs to deliver a product that actually competes with and beats WD in the media player appliance space.

[recliq]

Raspberry Pi is not going to be a real mediaplayer alternative in the near future.
One reason for this is the lack of HW accelerated video codecs. So far the Raspberry Pi foundation has only licensed h264 and mpeg4 codecs.
Some open source codecs might follow in the near future, but there will still be missing codec support for some other important codecs
(like VC1, WMV, mpeg2, ...)

[RMerlin]

I'll be watching closely. I'm afraid the WDLXTV LIVE is nearing the end of its life and development is close to running its course on this product. Not do to lack of creativity or effort, but due to WD doing everything it can to squash outside development with every new firmware release. This and the age of the product are of concern to me. Raspberry Pi may be an avenue to focus this fantastic development community on a truly OpenSource platform without a company doing all it can to kill development. I'm anxious to see if this can become a new development platform allowing our devs to deliver a product that actually competes with and beats WD in the media player appliance space.

If some of us switch to a new platform, it's most likely to be one from Hauppauge, as b-rad is now a full-time employee there.

Low-powered devices such as the Pi will always be limited to tinkering IMHO. They lack the power to do anything more advanced, and the userbase will always remain way too small to be worth doing any full-fledged development on it.