How do i connect 2 rpi2 together?

[Motoman462]

Hello I'm new to this rpi2 and really don't know a whole lot when it comes to computing
I recently got a rpi2 and flashed rasbian onto it. I got it so I could watch my movies off my hard drive via VLC. But when I play a movie it's just sound and a frozen image of the movie.
Could I connect two rpi2 together and dedicate one for sound and one for video? I don't really know how any of this works so thank you for your patients

[fruitoftheloom]

Hello I'm new to this rpi2 and really don't know a whole lot when it comes to computing
I recently got a rpi2 and flashed rasbian onto it. I got it so I could watch my movies off my hard drive via VLC. But when I play a movie it's just sound and a frozen image of the movie.
Could I connect two rpi2 together and dedicate one for sound and one for video? I don't really know how any of this works so thank you for your patients

VLC is not hardware accelerated, you need to use CLi OmxPlayer, which is now installed by default:

http://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2013/0 ... mmand-line


Though you will likely prefer a GUI and kweb has omxplayerGUI:

viewtopic.php?t=40860

[GTR2Fan]

I recently got a rpi2 and flashed rasbian onto it. I got it so I could watch my movies off my hard drive...

You could just install KODI Media Centre on top of Raspbian. That's the same media centre software that many others run with a dedicated OSMC or OpenELEC install, but KODI runs very nicely via Raspbian on a Pi2B.

There are various versions around including one in the Raspbian repository, but one of my favourites is gkreidl's KODI 15.2 which you can get by copying the text below then opening a terminal and pasting it in...

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wget http://steinerdatenbank.de/software/kodi-15.2-jessie-rpb.tar.gz
tar -xzf kodi-15.2-jessie-rpb.tar.gz
cd kodi-15-jessie
sudo ./install

...then pressing Enter when it appears to be finished to make it run the last line. A nice icon should appear either in your taskbar or in Menu - Sound & Video (I can't remember which) so you can launch it whenever at the click of a mouse button.

If this all sounds too complicated then don't worry. I'm sure others will be along with more advice shortly.