Raspberry Pi as a complete media server/PVR

[samclarke666]

Hi all,

Firstly, sorry if this has been answered before, but i'm trying to build a plan for my new media centre and i'm hitting a few snags!

Firstly, i want to be able to have device that will download from Sickbeard/CouchPotato via SABNZBD and save the files to a removable hard drive attached to the Raspberry Pi, then using a media server, streaming to a PS3 for playback. I'm guessing the RPI won't be powerful enough to stream HD files, so with that in mind, would the best thing be to install XBMC on the RPI too? I'm not sure how that would work.

Currently i do this via my main desktop PC, but i basically want something that's small/quiet and i can leave on 24/7.

If someone can shed some light on this, i think i might be overthinking this!

Thanks!

[gkreidl]

I cannot answer all your question and I'm using Raspbian and not XMBC, but I ran some tests with my own media server (written in Python). I could easily serve one HD stream from the RPI to another computer, while watching a HD video on the RPi itself and serving two more SD streams at the same time. The HD streams were 1080p recordings from Sat TV.

But torrent downloads / uploads may easily bring the RPi to its limits if too maby ports are opened (tested with transmission).