Pi looks promising indeed. It could do with WiFi, but apart from that I think the rest one can work with.
Popcorn Hour is new to me, and certainly looks interesting, and it seems that apart from the odd bug, usability is not bad. The thing with most of these boxes that is perhaps less appealing is the seeming emphasis on death-by-feature-set. Also if I got this right, the price is on the order of $200? Jailbroken AppleTv is $99 (~350k in UG) + a bit of time/effort. With the open source XBMC installed, it's a little black gem. And of course because it does WiFi, fewer extra wires added, which is gratifying. P. On Jan 08, 2012, at 14:46, [email protected] wrote: > True, the Pi is a low cost PC. And it's quite suitable as a media centre. I > have a Popcorn Hour, and I eventually had to abandon it for a home-built > media server due to poor customer support, lacking firmware upgrades, > unbelievably buggy NFS support, and not many customisation options. It is a > Linux powered box only in name (as opposed to in spirit), trust me; the way > it handles things on the inside totally defies any standards observed in > other Linux distributions. > > That said, if you are simply looking for a good and easy to use media centre > and plan to play media only from locally connected drives (SATA or USB), then > Popcorn Hour is a really good choice, and I recommend it. However, if it is > the Linux aspect of the device pickling your curiosity, don't bother. Then > there are both cheaper and better alternatives for you out there. > -- > Skickat från min Android-telefon med K-9 E-post. Ursäkta min fåordighet. > > "Peter C. Ndikuwera" <[email protected]> skrev: > Reading through the raspberrypi site now but it doesn't seem to be a media > player, more a low cost PC. Am I wrong? > > Popcorn Hour (http://www.popcornhour.com) makes a great full 1080p > Linux-based media player. Like all Linux-based devices it has some quirks in > the buy-it-and-start-using-it-immediately department, but with a little > configuring my Linux-unfriendly wife uses it to play music, view photos, > watch movies with zero problems. > > Her only problems come when I get bored and start trying to install > unnecessary stuff like python & tinyproxy! > > P. > > Other options are the Boxee Box from D-Link and Roku's many media player > options. > > -- > Evolution (n): A hypothetical process whereby infinitely improbable events > occur with alarming frequency, order arises from chaos, and no one is given > credit. > > > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any > way.
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