Saw my first Raspberry Pi last night..

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Have you tried Navi-x on it yet Llew? There's a version specially for the Pi.
 
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Couldn't you just stream your TBS cards output over the LAN?
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Hmm... Hadn't considered doing that. Worth a try maybe.
 
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Tut tut, won't show MPEG2. Need to buy an MPEG2 licence from RPi Foundation - £2.80. Cheek. Sent off for one, expect it'll come the other side of Xmas now.
 
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rolfw said:
Have you tried Navi-x on it yet Llew? There's a version specially for the Pi.
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I've downloaded the Navi-x zip file Rolf, not sure how to add it to XBMC yet.
 
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OK now, needed to have the file in a folder to add it, not as a standalone zip file. Looks the bees knees, plenty of choice, old and new. Thanks for the pointer.
 
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No probs Llew, I've found it very "useful". :) Also, wasn't aware that when an item is highlighted, by clicking on menu, it can be downloaded, much better than streaming. Happy Christmas by the way. :)
 
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That looks to be a useful extra Rolf. Was watching Charlie Brown's Christmas last night, hadn't seen that for years - great music by jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi.

I've got a 16Gb USB stick which I can record to, so thinking about putting the Pi in a box as a self-contained PVR unit, then get another Pi for playing with.

Happy Xmas to you too and all of our Staff and members.
 
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I've now received the licence key for enabling MPEG2 in OpenElec's XBMC. Playing an MPEG2 stream via my main PC is showing some stuttering, which I assume is down the RPi's CPU not being up to speed. Will try overclocking it a little, also putting the MPEG file on a USB stick on the RPi and running it directly from there to see if that makes any difference.
 
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I've been following the PI for a year, just bit the bullet and ordered one cased from Farnell.

I was actually quiet surprised to see XBMC doesn't have a decent Full RSS reader, so I guess I'll just find one for Debian.
 
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My Raspberry Pi became Raspberry Crumble today. I got so infuriated with it and it's constant refusal to work right, that I took it out to the garage and pulverised it with a hammer.
After wasting so many hours and only going backwards, it had to stop, so now I can get back to the real world - it was very cathartic.
 
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