{"id":709,"date":"2013-08-17T21:01:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T04:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/?p=709"},"modified":"2013-09-17T21:01:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T04:01:37","slug":"4-new-raspberry-pi-media-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"4 New Raspberry PI Media Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years I have used many different types of devices to play digital movies on the TV.\u00a0 This started back in the late 90's with a Haupage TV out card with a wireless 2.4 Ghz transmitter over to my<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRBTITkEkpZ9obN-dWTGqUm9c0ue2wUIcm8XUYoyvI9tSmmtPBiww\" width=\"251\" height=\"201\" name=\"1Yaq6Aw0tsHEmM:\" data-sz=\"f\" \/><\/p>\n<p>rear projection TV, upgraded to a dedicated home theater PC, replaced with a Xbox mod running XBMC, replaced then with an apple TV running XBMC so I could handle 720P, replaced with a Pivos running Android to run 1080p, replaced again with a Pivos running XBMC on Linux.\u00a0 This has finally all been thrown out the window and I have landed on the solution that I should stick with for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Features<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Runs 1080P content SMOOTH<\/li>\n<li>Serial adapter will map to a TCP\/IP port.\u00a0 This will allow the automation system to send the TV serial commands over the network (one network cable to the PI runs video\/control)<\/li>\n<li>Small and low power<\/li>\n<li>Updates to newer XBMC versions on each boot (Raspbmc feature)<\/li>\n<li>Renders 1080P 3D content on TV's that support 3D (I tested)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Problems<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Odd Codec wont render, just get audio (still trying to get the pattern for this)<\/li>\n<li>No Remote (use Ipod\/Iphone\/Ipad app to control XBMC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/?page_id=705\">I have created a page that outlines the setup steps<\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years I have used many different types of devices to play digital movies on the TV.\u00a0 This started back in the late 90&#8217;s with a Haupage TV out card with a wireless 2.4 Ghz transmitter over to my rear projection TV, upgraded to a dedicated home theater PC, replaced with a Xbox mod [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}