Raspberry Pi as media Player?


I find r-pi audio is messed up. If you're jacking in HDMI, typically audio will default to that channel, but you can fiddle with amixer in raspbmc/etc to repoint to the audio jack; great. Next yproblem seems to be a bug in the r-pi hardware (?), that it defaults to MAX volume, until you do 'something'; I've not nailed it down (not much experimentation), but sometimes just playing a sound, and then you can control volume; but if you make a .profile or other startup script that fiddles with mixer to set volume, it won't take.. you need to do 'something' first, and even then.. volume may not take.

Anyone have much experience there?

With raspbmc and xbmc, it works fine.. your TV can just have the volume lower, and you'd never notice; but for some game-console-with-rpi-inside, its rather a bitch :) I should just add an inline potentiometer so I can adjust vo9lume on the fly like a TV, but it annoys me that the software side shoudl work, but.. doesn't, usually :)

Need more fiddle time.. I'm sure its a 15 min fix, just donm't have 15mins .. anyone on top of this? :)

(currently putting r-pi into a Picade; I may just go to Beaglebone or old pandora pcb and be done with, though .. more power, and no weird audio bugs ;)

jeff
 
The pi cannot passthrough dtshd-ma or dolby true hd. With TrueHd it needs to decode the stream and video will stutter as it cannot keep up. With dtshd-ma it will passthrough the core stream.


But other than that the pi is a great mediaplayer. I use it with raspbmc and a usbhdd. Don't expect high transferspeeds to a usbhdd though. The usb speed is really slow. I get about 2 MB/s with my usb3 hdd. Enough to watch videos from but really slow when it comes to copying large files over the network.


The pi should be able to play every full-hd file encoded with up to high profile (4.1).


Also I use hyperion to have an ambilight effect with leds mounted behind the tv. Looks really nice :)


Edit: Skeezix: if you use the analog out you can set the volume with amixer but I see that this can be annoying. A potentiometer is what I use for my webradio with raspberry pi.
 
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mcobit .. no, the trick is that its inconsistent.. you can use amixer to adjust volume, but it doesn't work on boot, and doesn't always work later; some firmware or hw issue .. its a well known thing (I've just not researched it yet.)  Never presented an issue with xbmc for video playing (I stream, a lot!), but for picade its annoying when it boots up and is full volume :)

(but then, real arcade machines often do that too, so.... ;)

jeff
 
Well it looks as if I'm going to be getting a RPi2 as media player.

Anyone have recommendations for any additional items I should get along with it, which case, power supply etc.

Particularly interested in a remote to use it as a media player.
 
Ian J said:
Well it looks as if I'm going to be getting a RPi2 as media player.

Anyone have recommendations for any additional items I should get along with it, which case, power supply etc.

Particularly interested in a remote to use it as a media player.
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For a remote if your TV supports CEC you can just use your TV remote.

Otherwise you can install Yatse on your Android phone and use that as a remote control.

If you attach a bluetooth dongle you can set up a Wiimote as a remote control (But I haven't achieved this as yet)

:)
 
PokeParadox said:
Ian J said:
Well it looks as if I'm going to be getting a RPi2 as media player.

Anyone have recommendations for any additional items I should get along with it, which case, power supply etc.

Particularly interested in a remote to use it as a media player.
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For a remote if your TV supports CEC you can just use your TV remote.

Otherwise you can install Yatse on your Android phone and use that as a remote control.

If you attach a bluetooth dongle you can set up a Wiimote as a remote control (But I haven't achieved this as yet)

:)
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TV does support CEC but has everything through an AV amp so would have to check if that creates any issues

Yatse on phone sounds good but would be a problem for when I'm not around.

I do have a BT dongle and the Wii has been relegated to a carrier bag in the spare room since it's last use at Christmas so that sounds good too.

TrashyMG said:
I have an old Gyration media center remote I use with my Raspberry Pi... Most likely hard to get now, but really nice to use with Kodi with my Raspbmc setup.
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Damn that looks like it could replace all the remotes we have.  I'll have a scour of the net for one.
 
I was thinking of getting something with a built in keyboard for basic input like this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mele-Wireless-Keyboard-Intelligent-Computer/dp/B00DI4GMVG

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One thing I have just thought of, I see quite a few heat sinks for the RP, does it really need these installed?
 
Ian J said:
One thing I have just thought of, I see quite a few heat sinks for the RP, does it really need these installed?
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Can't say for sure about the RPi2, but I never needed one for the two original RPis I own.
 
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Do the film titles have to be in a specific format to get the posters?


We name all our films with the date of release then the title, would that be a problem?
 
as I told, I'm using MCE remote, the model 1039 with teletext buttons.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MCE_Remote

no configuration needed, trough the "number" buttons do not double as a keyboard out of the box, I have no idea if it's something doable...
 
I can't believe nobody has mentioned this! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fiveninjas/slice-a-media-player-and-more

It's built around the Raspberry Pi Compute Module, and provides a bunch of useful features on the host board including USB-slave-disk mode, and blinky lights.

If there's ever a Compute Module 2, it'll hopefully be a drop in replacement too!

I have the small Keyboard/Trackpad combo Ian J posted on the first page - I'm not a fan! The hunt for a good all-in-one keyboard continues... I think some of these are just too small.
 
Can anyone confirm that a My Passport type hard-drive will work without a powered hub.
 
Ian J said:
Can anyone confirm that a My Passport type hard-drive will work without a powered hub.
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I'm not sure about that I only have a powered drive on my Pi1 and my Pi2 has a Powered USB hub and Ycable for the HDD.


You may be able to if you have a good PSU for the PI and only plug in the HDD and use a wired connection instead of WiFi. and unplug any other devices
 
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