Hi all, Not sure if anyone is interested but I received a Raspberry Pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/) about a week ago and thought I'd try shoving Rivendell on it to see what happened.
The reason for my meddling is that its a $35 board about the size of a credit card with the height of approx a 2.5" hard drive. It runs off a 5v micro usb power supply or you can use 4 AA batteries (no idea how long they last). It also has 8 on board GPIO connectors, RS232 pin connectors and can hook directly up to an LCD screen using the standard ribbon cable (or HDMI or Component Video). Anyway I loaded up the Debian Wheezy BETA image onto a 16GB SD Card and then followed the instructions for a normal Debian from source install. It took 6 and a half hours to compile but it installed without a problem. It is just about usable however it struggles a lot. I'd put it in a slightly worse category than an old P4 for usage. I've not tried Riv on anything older so can't really get a good comparison. Here are the problems: ripcd takes up 100% CPU, which makes everything very sluggish No idea how to get GPIO working Playing more than 1 MP2 file caused glitches during the cross fade. I did mean to try it with plain WAV audio but haven't had the time (I believe this is due to a lack of CPU power but it could also be an audio chip issue as I don't have any decent USB sound cards handy). I tried offloading the Apache side to a normal PC running Riv but I keep getting errors generating peaks etc. I've never tried this before so I've probably just configured something wrong. The Wheezy image is BETA at the moment and the Pi folks are tweaking things to offload more to the graphics chip thats on board (which is capable of playing Quake 3). If it improves it could be a nice little play out box with a decent USB sound card. Pair it with a touch screen and tack the board on the back for a cheap "all in one" Rivendell machine. -- Wayne Merricks The Voice Asia 0121 522 6075 ####################### Scanned by MailMarshal ####################### ############ Attention: The information contained in this message is confidential and intended for the addressee(s) only. If you have received this message in error or there are any problems, please notify the originator immediately. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message is strictly forbidden. Christian Vision or any of its subsidiaries will not be liable for direct, special, indirect or consequential damages arising from alteration of the contents of this message by a third party or as a result of any virus being passed on. Please note that we reserve the right to monitor and read any e-mails sent or received by the company under the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulation 2000. Christian Vision is registered in England as a limited company 2842414 and as a charity 1031031 ############ _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
