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I'm considering getting a raspberry pi 2 and running kodi on it. It's pretty impressive how much development is going on for the raspberry pi version of kodi. My only two questions for anyone who might know are...
1. With the standard non-gigabit ethernet connection on the rp2, will it be able to handle streaming 1080p HD video via ethernet from my desktop computer?
2. Will the rp2 be able to play EVERY video and audio codec? Can I install those? Or is this something handled by kodi?
3. I have no HDMI inputs on my receiver. So, I have to have optical sound. Does anyone know if these HDMI - HDMI/SPDIF converters are any good? I keep reading quite a few people on Amazon saying it makes their fuse boxes trip.
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1. Yes
2. Kodi can play most things out of the box. However there is an MPEG codec available from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, it costs a couple of quid. But personally on the rare occasion that it cannot decode a video I just re-encode it to something it can decode using FFmpeg.
3.No idea.
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Correct. It's even possible to convert between optical and coaxial, and vise versa, as the "signal" is the same (I don't entirely understand how that works, though, lol).
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I mean in how the adapter works between converting the optical and coaxial signal.
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It's only the physical level.
If you use a TOSLINK transmitter, the PCM is sent optical, if you use an electric driver you send electrical.
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Yes, I know that. My comment was to express how impressed I was that the same signal can be sent either way. Let's just say I found joy in a simple example of physics ;)
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2015-08-06, 13:29
(This post was last modified: 2015-08-06, 13:31 by zehner.)
If your tv has a SPDIF-Out, then you can connect your pi with your tv by HDMI and your receiver with your tv by SPDIF
I have also an old receiver and a slightly newer tv and tried to connect the pi to the receiver. Connecting the pi and the tv with two different cables introduced a small delay in the audio in my setup. If your tv does some post-processing, then audio and video can get out of sync, but if you use the audio from your tv, everything stays in sync