Online media woes
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:28 pm
Hello all, I recently recieved my RPi through the post and am personally very happy with it. I've got it up and running and connected wirelessly to the net, successfully installed and used X-Chat - there's not a whole lot more I really expected out of it, however...
I told my sister the things you could possibly do with it, things such as browse YouTube, on demand TV services (4od, iPlayer and the like) etc. and she also bought one. So I doubled up and bought a wireless adapter for both of us, two wireless (bluetooth) keyboards and HDMI cables. I'm starting to feel a bit like I should have done a bit more research, as I haven't yet been able to do any of the things I said it could do.
I was wondering if anyone was in a similar predicament. I've got flash working (gnash) but it is incredibly slow in Midori, taking 30 seconds to freeze on a still of the video. Minitube doesn't work period. Using lsusb, the Pi recognises the bluetooth adapter as a Cambridge Silicon radio - the blueman bluetooth manager however does not recognise the device.
Anyway, my complaint isn't with the Pi itself. If it comes to it, I'll buy the extra Pi from my sister. There must be some great evil I can achieve with two of these things
I'll spend a couple more days trying to find some solutions, until then, I'm just looking for some pointers.
Cheers!
I told my sister the things you could possibly do with it, things such as browse YouTube, on demand TV services (4od, iPlayer and the like) etc. and she also bought one. So I doubled up and bought a wireless adapter for both of us, two wireless (bluetooth) keyboards and HDMI cables. I'm starting to feel a bit like I should have done a bit more research, as I haven't yet been able to do any of the things I said it could do.
I was wondering if anyone was in a similar predicament. I've got flash working (gnash) but it is incredibly slow in Midori, taking 30 seconds to freeze on a still of the video. Minitube doesn't work period. Using lsusb, the Pi recognises the bluetooth adapter as a Cambridge Silicon radio - the blueman bluetooth manager however does not recognise the device.
Anyway, my complaint isn't with the Pi itself. If it comes to it, I'll buy the extra Pi from my sister. There must be some great evil I can achieve with two of these things
I'll spend a couple more days trying to find some solutions, until then, I'm just looking for some pointers.Cheers!