Meet the Raspberry Pi - download the e-book! http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1680
The cut-down version of Meet the Raspberry Pi, written by Eben Upton, our Executive Director, and Gareth Halfacree, is now available on Amazon as a Kindle e-book. It's only£3.29. Build a $35 Media Center with Raspbmc and Raspberry Pi http://www.howtogeek.com/119924/build-a-35-media-center-with-raspbmc-and-raspberry-pi/ ...the Raspberry Pi is awesome at decoding h.264/MPEG-4 content but because of hardware and/or licensing limitations (http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/592) it cannot play MPEG-2 format video (a rather common format). If your entire library of content is in MPEG-2 and you don't want to go through the hassle of transcoding it, that could be a deal breaker. ...the menus can feel sluggish if you're used to running XBMC on a dual-core media center computer. That fits with another review which said the Pi was underpowered for running XBMC. Being dependent on hardware decoding using proprietary drivers is a good way to end up with a product that won't keep up with changes in video formats. There are several much faster (quad-core, faster clock rate) devices in the pipeline with $100 price tags that are better options for this purpose. I wish the community would stop trying to push the Pi as a media player. US Distributors for Raspberry Pi: Newark (ETA < 3 weeks, shipping unknown (you have to login/register)) http://downloads.element14.com/raspberryPi2.html?isRedirect=true&ICID=raspberrypigroup_us Allied (ETA unknown (you have to submit a form to ask), shipping ~$10) http://www.alliedelec.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?SKU=70229569 -Tom _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
