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WebM would be the way to go if the GPU can decode with hardware acceleration. I know there was a push in early 2011 for hardware vendors to cater for WebM - and quite a few mobiles offer HA WebM playback (Samsung bada for one). Its an open codec & container - and it would be cool to have a hardware ...

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I'd say sandisk extreme pro - 95mb/s is its top speed - but I've not taken a look at the wiki to see what's compatible yet. Any good class 10 cards with write speeds between 20/30 mb/s should be best bang for buck depending on how big on size you go. I'm looking to run on sandisk extreme pro 32GB ca...

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Class 10 card @ 20mb/s reduced to £8.99 doesn't seem bad also

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electro ... fer=search

Justin

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Heres a tip for getting the best available download via get_iplayer. Rather than probing the schedule number to find out what formats are avaiable for the programme you need just use the following command: --modes=best This will download 720p if available for the programme or flashhd if not Example:...

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It seems the Ebay seller has already sold a Raspberry Pi domain name back in May 2012 for £6.50 lol

Doesn't seem like his new money making venture is working as he's dropped the price of the latest offering to £19.99 haha!

Got to love Ebay sharks

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Curious to how this turns out - because as I understand it Raspberry-Pi-Store doesn't infringe on the 'Raspberry Pi' word mark due to the dashes. I may be wrong but I don't think that can be classed as a trademark violation Take a look at these sites that have been up for months without challenge:: ...

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There is mention of dependencies. You just have to keep selecting those options and the installer then goes away and installs those as well. I suspect I didn't take full notice of the small print when I installed iceweasel so will have another go. Yup - I missed the dependancy notes also - will try...

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I've had better luck with Chromium though. Up and running! Moving between the various tabs on the BBC site is brisk and visually I cannot see any difference from my Lubuntu running Firefox. Interestingly, while the CPU on my 1GB RAM Lubuntu will often max out moving between screens, the Puppy CPU t...

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Seems one of my 2GB SD cards only has 3862528 sectors available regardless of formatting choice. The image requires a minimum of 3968055 sectors available so that rules out cheap no name 2GB cards. In theory your SD card must offer 1.89GB of available formatted writeable space - Cheap 2GB cards won'...

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Nothing is as easy as one might wish! I had hopes of using the Rpi to play 1080p film files but I am beginning to think that this might not be possible. The test file with the Debian squeeze latest image plays just about OK but with no sound. I'm thinking it might need serious overclocking and mayb...

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That its an 1-bit PWM signal doesn't necessarily mean it gives poor audio quality, many high end CD players in the past used 1-bit converters because of their high quality. The PWM signal of the RPI is probably not in the same league, but the quality of the RPI has been compared to FM-stereo, so no...

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dbach wrote:Is omxplayer preferred over VLC?
Thanks

I would say yes as omxplayer takes advantage of decoding 1080p using the Pi's hardware GPU.

VLC would decode using software decoders thus I doubt 1080p would be possible without major framerate drop out!

Justin

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Its not everyday you get to make a 1080p laptop with 7 hours battery life for £120 :) The RPi is capable of playing 1080p video, but the lapdock screen is 720p. Just to nitpick :twisted:[/quote] Ah yes but its still capable of playing 1080p in hardware = for me not having multiple MVK's laying all ...

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So I'm scratching my head wondering how I can take HDMI audio from the dock to headphones. If you feel like doing some hardware hacking, I guess you could replace the speakers on the lapdock with a headphone jack? I dunno if the voltage-levels would be compatible though...? Hmmm That's a pretty goo...

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Got mine all set up - However a spanner has just hit the works......... I was hoping to use this setup as a nice 1080p portable video unit - but using headphones via the Raspberry Pi's onboard analog jack is hideous. Really poor quality as it picks up electrostatic from nearly everything on the boar...

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Just posting some findings using headphones via the onboard 3.5mm audio jack via Raspbmc. It seems that distortion is present at any audio level in high frequencies using the following test files: MP4 video with 192kbs AAC audio MVK video with 384kbs Dolby Digital I'm not sure if this is being cause...

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Partition Wizard 7.1 minitool will sort it out nice and quick

http://www.partitionwizard.com/?gclid=C ... tAod3hc3zg

Free also

J

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Yes using raw, and tried various levels. xxxstarmanxxx have you encoded any videos yourself? can anyone confirm they have done it? Hi matey - No I've not begun any codec tests yet until I'm happy with an xmbc setup but glad you got it sorted. Weird that that the decoder seems picky about CBR bitrat...

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Are you playing these back as raw h.264 files or inside a container ??? MP4/Matroska??? IF NOT - and you're just using the raw h.264 video that at least rules out header compression. The only other thing I can think of that springs to mind is the encoding output level is above L5.0 and its some kind...

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I think the whole foundation should be hugely proud of the fact that they have already managed to distribute such huge numbers concidering the following statement: The Sinclair ZX80 is a home computer brought to market in 1980 by Science of Cambridge Ltd. (later to be better known as Sinclair Resear...

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Nice job Hetman - Can't wait to build a box! I've also been looking at this as a way to encolse the RasPi underneath the lapdock. I'm gonna strip it out to bare bones and so there is room for portable harddisk and all manor of things that come along in the future. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TARGUS-LA...

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Still available through Amazon UK - Price has risen to £74.99 - distributed by Pandy. It doesn't seem to be anywhere else in the UK at the moment :( I got mine from Nextgadget.co.uk for £59.99 (Free next day delivery) It might be worth giving these guys a phone call on 0871 7042 506 Their a small co...

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Great thread people :) I've also gone down this route for a portable device the only difference in my setup is I've ordered this for the HDMI conversion. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/270982484668?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649 The hope is once its shaved down a bit it will hold the ...

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The more I look at that raspberry - especially whilst drinking - the more it looks like 'Mario' a la Nintendo lol

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-.....125wt_1181

These look quite good - You could adapt the tray underneath for all manner of peripherals.

I like the idea that its flip top also.

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