XBMC

[pieman16]

Hey ya all. I just got a Raspberry PI. So far so good. BUT here is the problem I am going to use it as a media center. I downloaded noobs and installed the XBMC program for Pi and the OS for pi. BUT when it boots up XBMC I get the long lines of code then the screen goes blank and just hangs. If I click the mouse I get Sketch (pi's programing platform.) What am I doing wrong. I tried installing XBMC a few times but no luck. Please help if you can.

[fruitoftheloom]

Hey ya all. I just got a Raspberry PI. So far so good. BUT here is the problem I am going to use it as a media center. I downloaded noobs and installed the XBMC program for Pi and the OS for pi. BUT when it boots up XBMC I get the long lines of code then the screen goes blank and just hangs. If I click the mouse I get Sketch (pi's programing platform.) What am I doing wrong. I tried installing XBMC a few times but no luck. Please help if you can.

Personally have always installed OpenElec without Noobs

http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/Insta ... spberry_Pi

[DougieLawson]

Personally have always installed OpenElec without Noobs

http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/Insta ... spberry_Pi

+1
Having wasted half an afternoon failing to get RaspBMC to recognise my WiFi dongle I've always stuck with OpenELEC since then.

[beta-tester]

i tried RaspBMC but for me, it is rubbish.
now i use OpenELEC what works best for me.
i have NOOBS on my SD card with installed OpenELEC + Raspbian + PiPLAY and all three OS work very well together without any problems.

[kusti8]

I have never gotten Raspbmc to work. It was always picky and never worked that well. I used openelec and found it worked well, but since it was built from scratch, I couldn't run my own code. Xbian is the perfect balance between the two. If you just want a media center, openelec is the fastest, but if you want your own code to run, xbian is the best. After all, the Pi is here to learn and experiment.