[jesterod]

any word on avi xvid? all my movies/shows are in xvid....

[Lunatixz]

any word on avi xvid? all my movies/shows are in xvid....

I'm also interested in it's performance handling other formats other then x264...
CPU Load and FPS info would be nice

[Ned Scott]

Rumor has it that the hardware can do it, but it might not be enabled due to licensing costs. Which is not to say that someone won't be able to figure out how to enable it later on, but it might not be a safe bet right now.

[davilla]

any word on avi xvid? all my movies/shows are in xvid....

avi xvid are mpeg4 part 2.

[darkscout]

Rumor has it that the hardware can do it, but it might not be enabled due to licensing costs.

Xvid licensing costs? You mean the codec that was invented solely to be an OSS solution to DivX?

[asdfaoeu]

Xvid licensing costs? You mean the codec that was invented solely to be an OSS solution to DivX?

There are still licensing costs for the patents which cover the codecs, Xvid / DivX, which follow the mpeg4 part2 standard. Having said that they have paid the licensing for that and it can hardware decode it

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/592

[OccupyCouch]

Could the Raspberry Pi serve as an alternative solution for a standalone Couchpotato/Sickbeard device instead of using a NAS?

[Jaken]

Could the Raspberry Pi serve as an alternative solution for a standalone Couchpotato/Sickbeard device instead of using a NAS?

As long as you like usb hard drives.

[Milhouse]

Wouldn't OPENELEC be ideal for this?

See Raspbmc - XBMC Linux distribution for Raspberry Pi thread - your question is asked and answered there.

[zoeck]

See Raspbmc - XBMC Linux distribution for Raspberry Pi thread - your question is asked and answered there.

http://www.openelec.tv/component/k2/item...-supported

Or use Openelec

[pettergulbra]

I`m not verry good at specs, but I tnink this would be better. Little more expensive, but:

http://www.fxitech.com/

[deanmv]

Well that general sale/release went badly. Anyone manage to bag one?

[PaulC2K]

Got my order in, 90min of f5'ing between pages & order processing
The 2 distributors have been near enough useless, Farnell barely working the entire time, and RS might as well have not bothered cos they're not even attempting to sell it yet. So i officially dub them 'Farcehell' and 'RSholes' .

Not particularly impressed with the price either, £29.46 ($47) is a fair way from the $35 it was marketed as being, and thats with free UK postage too.
Got to wait 12 days for estimated delivery though.
Cant help but think there must have been far far better ways to go about this whole thing, especially a 6am launch for a UK product sold by 2 UK distributors, so if theres the problems most people predicted they're both closed and they pick a launch time thats hardly ideal for folks in the UK, US, EU... anywhere?

[Jimmer]

Yeah, it's a bit sh!t that they announced farnell and RS on their frontpage, but only one of them actually had it for sale. I initially went to RS because I've already got an account with them, thinking it would streamline my buying experience! By the time I actually got the page to load it was "express your interest". By the time I got to farnell their site had melted, too! Then they had sold out.....

still can't get the Farnell page to come up now.....

[effbiai]

for pre-ordering go to:
http://export.farnell.com/jsp/bespoke/be...erryPi.jsp

EDIT:
http://export.farnell.com/jsp/search/dis...-BOARD-BUS
might also work