True, the Pi is a low cost PC. And it's quite suitable as a media centre. I have a Popcorn Hour, and I eventually had to abandon it for a home-built media server due to poor customer support, lacking firmware upgrades, unbelievably buggy NFS support, and not many customisation options. It is a Linux powered box only in name (as opposed to in spirit), trust me; the way it handles things on the inside totally defies any standards observed in other Linux distributions.
That said, if you are simply looking for a good and easy to use media centre and plan to play media only from locally connected drives (SATA or USB), then Popcorn Hour is a really good choice, and I recommend it. However, if it is the Linux aspect of the device pickling your curiosity, don't bother. Then there are both cheaper and better alternatives for you out there. -- Skickat från min Android-telefon med K-9 E-post. Ursäkta min fåordighet. "Peter C. Ndikuwera" <[email protected]> skrev: Reading through the raspberrypi site now but it doesn't seem to be a media player, more a low cost PC. Am I wrong? Popcorn Hour (http://www.popcornhour.com) makes a great full 1080p Linux-based media player. Like all Linux-based devices it has some quirks in the buy-it-and-start-using-it-immediately department, but with a little configuring my Linux-unfriendly wife uses it to play music, view photos, watch movies with zero problems. Her only problems come when I get bored and start trying to install unnecessary stuff like python & tinyproxy! P. Other options are the Boxee Box from D-Link and Roku's many media player options. -- Evolution (n): A hypothetical process whereby infinitely improbable events occur with alarming frequency, order arises from chaos, and no one is given credit.
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