Episode 185: Ben Heck’s Raspberry Pi Media Center Episode

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

Build Like Ben: Part List for building your Raspberry Pi Media Center:

Qty	Product Name	Supplier	Buy These PartsBuy These Parts
1	Raspberry Pi B	element14	Buy ItemBuy Item
1	SD card	element14	Buy ItemBuy Item
1	IR sensor	element14	Buy ItemBuy Item
1	WiPi module	element14	Buy ItemBuy Item
1	Resistor (100ohm)	element14	Buy ItemBuy Item
1	USB KB+ M	element14	Buy ItemBuy Item
1	HDMI cable	element14	Buy ItemBuy Item
1	USB hub	element14	Buy ItemBuy Item
1	Capacitor	element14	Buy ItemBuy Item
1	PSU	element14	Buy ItemBuy Item

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1	Remote control

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DAB over 7 years ago +1

Good episode, left me laughing with Ben.

DAB

retrogamer over 5 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 over 6 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 7 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 over 7 years ago

I just tried to watch a ripped DVD and it does run, albeit a bit jerky.
Felix, how would You go about to engage overclocking from within OpenELEC?

Nice job, b.t.w.

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

Christoph
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Former Member over 7 years ago

Great episode. Thanks guys. Any plans to upload the case model to Thingiverse?
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DAB over 7 years ago

Good episode, left me laughing with Ben.

DAB
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Former Member over 7 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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