The fact that the design might limit the current to stop the board burning a hole in your desk... would not normally be considered a design flaw! That said, I wonder if the OPs problem is really load sensitive rather than temp sensitive. I too have a microusb phone charger which I bought to use as a...

Since no-one has mentioned the obvious, I guess maybe I should: SDHC cards are a separate standard - very similar, but different from SD. Older SD card readers may not support SDHC, rather the drivers for that reader may not support SDHC: so it might be worth checking for updated SD drivers for the ...

IMHO, this is one of the applications that the RPi will not be good for. Video eats lots of memory (the 256MB limit will be a problem), plus decoding compressed video will eat lots of CPU. The ARM could do it, but it wouldn't leave much left to run the rest of Linux. If and when we get GPU assisted ...