#Mediacenter con raspberry pi software#

Normal graphical environment (X server) does not use accelerated graphics. Also bear in mind that omxplayer is quite young project and while it's quite stable, it's not perfect (like most things on RPi dedicated software). If you are planning on running your own distribution, you have to integrate omxplayer. It is used by RaspBMC so if you plan on using this solution, you should have no problem. And hardware decoding only works with dedicated video player (omxplayer). But you will have to transcode all your material that is in different formats. Graphics chip on RaspberryPi is VERY powerful and if video is encoded with a format supported by the hardware decoder, it can easily play HD content 1080p. You can buy a licence key to enable additional hardware decoders from RPi foundation (currently you can buy MPEG2 and VC-1 license).

Hardware acceleration has to be used but by default only H264 can be hardware accelerated. The CPU of RaspberryPi is quite low-end and it can't really decode video at decent speed (even SD MPEG2). However here are a couple of glitches you may encounter:

So a lot of people are running raspberrypi as media center with success. It was never designed to be media center it just happens to be possible to use it like that. Currently RaspberryPi is more oriented to developers than to normal users. They are worked on all the time but still, it's not yet as polished as it could be.

#Mediacenter con raspberry pi software#

First of all, remember that software for RaspberryPi is in early state of development and there are a lot of problems with it.