Yes, and you can overclock it too, which raspbmc does (to 700MHz I believe).
Raspberry Pi DLNA Client
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I've not managed to get the CEC (TV remote) to control the pi yet but Mad Iain is making great progress on getting DLNA TV's streaming SD content (http://hummy.tv/forum/threads/dlna-to-smart-tvs.1815/), with the Pi streaming HD it's now possible to stream between my rooms!
@af123 I thought the CPU was clocked at 700mhz by standard but I think you're right the XBMC for pi does or has a branch that overclocks it, if they can get a opengl accellerated Mpeg2 decoder going then the pi is in business, I keep wondering about the Xtreamer but I can't keep buying kit hoping one will stream it all ;-)
I did hope AppleTV may but reckon it will have the same issue as the Ipad2 which I have tested.
@af123 I thought the CPU was clocked at 700mhz by standard but I think you're right the XBMC for pi does or has a branch that overclocks it, if they can get a opengl accellerated Mpeg2 decoder going then the pi is in business, I keep wondering about the Xtreamer but I can't keep buying kit hoping one will stream it all ;-)
I did hope AppleTV may but reckon it will have the same issue as the Ipad2 which I have tested.
No idea what codecs are used by those.
the xtreamer mk1 will stream both sd and hd and is as cheap as chips on ebay.
http://hummy.tv/forum/threads/network-streaming-content-to-a-media-player.1665/#post-21977
i brought mine new for £99 i think a few years ago.
just search for xtreamer 1, they pop up everynow and again.
heres one http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Xtreamer-...ternet_TV_Media_Streamers&hash=item2a1f90e2e7
just search for xtreamer 1, they pop up everynow and again.
heres one http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Xtreamer-...ternet_TV_Media_Streamers&hash=item2a1f90e2e7
Yes, you're right. Raspbmc overclocks it to 800MHz (http://www.raspbmc.com/wiki/user/frequently-asked-questions/)
Black Hole
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Off topic, but of interest to RPi-ers: http://www.electronicsweekly.com/bl...comp.html?cp=NLC-EWCI220120711&attr=editorial
RC4 of 'Raspbmc' (Debian-based XBMC distro for the Raspberry Pi) is now available, after a couple teething problems HDMI-CEC is now working very nicely. There are XBMC plugins for iPlayer, ITV Player, 4oD and Demand5, all of which work very nicely plus a few others I've not tried. I think this little device has the potential to seriously dent the sales of smart TVs!!
Ezra Pound
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Raspi now can have MPEG2 support - £2.40 for the license key!
http://www.raspbmc.com/
Here's hoping over bank holiday weekend I get time to buy the license and try it out!
http://www.raspbmc.com/
Here's hoping over bank holiday weekend I get time to buy the license and try it out!
Black Hole
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Is that hardware based? A couple of quid doesn't add much to the parts list 
Ezra Pound
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Is that hardware based? A couple of quid doesn't add much to the parts list
The £2.40 buys a license to un-lock a feature, not add a hardware component
Yes the broadcom chip in it can hardware decode but to keep cost down they didn't license it, 2.40 buys a license attached to the serial number in the chip.
VC-1 can also be purchased for 1.40
And for free the .h264 hardware encoding is now enabled so I believe people are working on making it into a pvr now, another note suggests it can do more codecs but I'm hoping that the mpeg will mean it plays all the humax records as it already played hd content fine
Will try over the weekend
Regards
Damian
VC-1 can also be purchased for 1.40
And for free the .h264 hardware encoding is now enabled so I believe people are working on making it into a pvr now, another note suggests it can do more codecs but I'm hoping that the mpeg will mean it plays all the humax records as it already played hd content fine
Will try over the weekend
Regards
Damian
Black Hole
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I know! I meant the bill-of-materials cost of putting together an Internet stream capable media player (with hardware codecs).