2011-10-01, 11:50
McGeagh Wrote:I have played with the Raspberry Pi, and it is frustratingly slow (not surprising based on spec) running ubuntu/lxde
I think it would be on par of beagleboard, so dont expect high framerate without a lot of optimisations. This is all guesswork as I have not worked on getting xbmc on it yet.
The only good thing is the cost, so cheap, anyone and everyone should pick one up, if only just to play around with it!
I think the interesting part is if it has a usable dedicated video decoder and it can handle the interesting content. Because even beagle is enough to display a limited skin of xbmc in 720p with 30fps. So could be a contender (or floss version) of atv2.
But yeah, the GUI might need customization, don't buy it and expect every skin to run perfect on it.