Raspberry Pi & Co Meetup.

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ntt

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Jul 11, 2012, 11:33:47 PM7/11/12
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We're planning a Raspberry'Pi Meetup next week. It's already in the Hackerspace Calendar. Michael Cheng will be hosting us. 

It will be like a "Show and Tell" session with those who already have had their grubby paws on the Raspberry'Pi sharing what they have been doing on it.

Please feel free to join us and if you have a Raspberry'Pi please do share with us what you've been doing with it.


Njoy,

-Chinmay

Alvin Jiang

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Jul 21, 2012, 7:16:25 AM7/21/12
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I don't have time to play with my brand new raspberry pi so I left it
in the space, above the router.

Please help yourselves to it, return it after use and don't take it
home.
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Michael Cheng

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Jul 23, 2012, 9:43:09 PM7/23/12
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Hi,

So i got my hands on it. And tried setting it up with Raspbian "Wheezy". Works like a breeze. Manage to install a BitTorrent client. Downloaded a file with ease. Tried installing VLC, but somehow it couldn't play videos properly. Tried installing Rasp XBMC. RC3 had some issues booting up after the installer formatted the SD Card.

Here's a photo album:


Gonna try again at setting up the media center. Otherwise, i will use another option called OpenELEC.

Regards,

Michael Cheng CM
Mobile: +65 9185 5166



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ntt

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Jul 24, 2012, 7:52:35 AM7/24/12
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Try it on Raspbian. The hard float version. I think it should do the VLC better. We also had problems playing videos on VLC at the RS Demo a few months ago.

Michael Cheng

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Jul 24, 2012, 8:20:00 AM7/24/12
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I am on Raspbian "Wheezy". Don't think its improved. The CPU maxed out to 100% but nothing shows.

Regards,

Michael Cheng CM
Mobile: +65 9185 5166


Antti Nissinen

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Jul 24, 2012, 8:20:37 AM7/24/12
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as far as I know, there's no GPU acceleration for vlc video output, there's not acceleration even for X windows...
I would start with omxplayer or maybe directly jump to XBMC

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Michael Cheng

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Jul 24, 2012, 8:25:05 AM7/24/12
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Tried Raspbmc (http://www.raspbmc.com/) on the weekend. RC3 had some bugs. Might be a problem with my installation. Will try it again soon.

I am also considering OpenELEC. :D

I actually tried to use OMXPlayer - but the distro i found had s problem with Wheezy (couldn't find the libpcre shared library even though its installed).

Regards,

Michael Cheng CM
Mobile: +65 9185 5166


Antti Nissinen

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Jul 24, 2012, 8:29:27 AM7/24/12
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I don't know about the raspbmc, haven't tried it yet, with omxplayer you need to probably do a symlink with wheezy sudo ln -s /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/libpcre.so /usr/lib/omxplayer/libpcre.so.1

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Jason Ng

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Jul 24, 2012, 9:12:32 AM7/24/12
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How about trying compiling XBMC on Raspbian?

http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianXBMC

I just tried it over the weekend. Well, it works. Managed to play videos but the interface is a little laggy. A word of caution though, it takes a long to compile on the RPi. I started on it on Saturday evening and left it running. Managed to finish on Sunday morning.

Cheers
Jason

Michael Cheng

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Jul 24, 2012, 1:16:15 PM7/24/12
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Ah! Thanks! I was wondering where to get it! I'll give it a shot!

Regards,

Michael Cheng CM
Mobile: +65 9185 5166


Michael Cheng

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Jul 24, 2012, 1:16:33 PM7/24/12
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Interesting...

Regards,

Michael Cheng CM
Mobile: +65 9185 5166


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