On Sunday 06 July 2014 04:11:27 Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Saturday 05 July 2014 17:30:19 Joe wrote: > >> Joel mentioned the Raspberry Pi, which is a very low-power [ARM] > >> device, which does the UK catchup channels pretty well, apart from the > >> occasional glitch when a provider thoughtlessly changes his protocol. > > > > Not for me it doesn't. And I was told that I was asking too much of it. > > I simply couldn't get it to stream. It would start, and then the stream > > would cut out. That was my first door-stop! > > Sorry to jump in late and in the middle of this conversation, but I'm > surprised by your experience with the Pi. I've run both Xbian and > Raspbmc (both Debian derivatives devoted to providing XBMC on the Pi) > with success, streaming BBC content with the iplayer plugin. Only very > occasionally have I experienced bad buffering and it's usually been > explained by a change by the BBC which the plugin developers are very > quick to pick up on. I do find it necessary to set the video speed > rather than leave it on "Auto", which apparently starts at high speed > but can't maintain it. And the video is sometimes pixellated. But > mostly I've found the Pi very able to handle the stream. And I've > recently become aware of the Hummingboard (a Google search will find > it), which looks as if it may be even more capable than the Pi and not > much more expensive.
Thanks, Patrick. But BBC only isn't enough anyway. I did probably have the video speed set wrong. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201407061047.26367.lisi.re...@gmail.com
