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This week Ben and Felix use a Raspberry Pi Model B to build a media center for streaming videos.

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  • DAB
    DAB over 10 years ago +1
    Good episode, left me laughing with Ben. DAB
  • retrogamer
    retrogamer over 9 years ago

    Nice video, but you can never have to many pinball machines Ben.  This build is great for people like me who like to watch online content.   This is a build I would like to do, and would enjoy using. 

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  • phoenixcomm
    phoenixcomm over 10 years ago

    Ben why did you and you Network Guy use SAMBA (CIFS) very slow (as you found out) why didn't just use NFS much, much faster... enjoy Cris

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    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to hyla@mayn.de

    Did you buy the mpeg2 license or shoehorn libdvdcss on to it?  I have a model b r1 and it's not jerky at all.  I went ahead and bought the license.

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  • hyla@mayn.de
    hyla@mayn.de over 10 years ago

    I just tried to watch a ripped DVD and it does run, albeit image a bit jerky.

    Felix, how would You go about to engage overclocking from within OpenELEC?

     

    Nice job, b.t.w. image

     

    And "me too" for the design files for the case.

     

    Christoph

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    Former Member over 10 years ago

    Great episode. Thanks guys.  Any plans to upload the case model to Thingiverse?

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    DAB over 10 years ago

    Good episode, left me laughing with Ben.

     

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    Former Member over 10 years ago

    You misspelled the configuration file for lirc.  It's supposed to be lircd.conf, not licd.conf.

     

    Either way, thanks for the IR example.

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