Raspberry Pi, a playful pie: Seventh quarter RASPBMC (UP)

One advantage of the Raspberry pi is that it has a strong video decoding capability, and it's a good option to use it to play video. It will be used for the next two seasons as a home media hub, and the XMBC software and RASPBMC distributions make this possible.

First, XMBC and RASPBMC

XMBC (soon to be renamed Kodi) is a leader in open source Media center software, originally developed for Xbox, and now runs on multiple platforms, including the Linux system Raspberry Pi runs. And the better thing is that someone has put XMBC directly into the system, into a XMBC dedicated system, called RASPBMC, this person is Sam Nazarko. He is still studying computer science at King's College London, graduating in 2015. With RASPBMC, we can save the steps of installing XMBC and install the system directly to enjoy the joy of Home Media Center.

Second, the installation of RASPBMC

In RASPBMC official website and Raspberry Pi Official website can find RASPBMC, in view of our network slow, recommended download offline package. RASPBMC Official website standalone version of the.

The installation steps can refer to the installation of the Raspbian system. However, due to the last use of noobs installation, the SDcard environment slightly different, the process is as follows:

1. Unzip

In fact, only more than 200 m size of the compressed package, but after a long wait. After the download is complete, you need to extract the img file.

$ gunzip raspbmc-final.img.gz $ ll *.img-rw-rw-r--1 linc Linc 1363148800 Dec  9 23:10 raspbmc-final.img

2. View the mounted drive letter:

$ df-hfilesystem      Size  used Avail use% mounted on/dev/sdb3        31M  4.4M   25M  15%/media/settings/ DEV/SDB6       6.6G  2.4G  3.9G  39%/media/root/dev/sdb5        60M  9.6M   50M  17%/media/ BOOT

3. Uninstall

$ umount/dev/sdb3$ umount/dev/sdb5$ UMOUNT/DEV/SDB6

4. Burn Write

$ sudo dd bs=4m if=raspbmc-final.img of=/dev/sdb && sync[sudo] password for linc:218+0 Records in218+0 Records OU t914358272 bytes (914 MB) copied, 28.8593 s, 31.7 mb/s325+0 records in325+0 records out1363148800 bytes (1.4 GB) copied, 1 00.093 s, 13.6 mb/s

5. View Results

$ sudo fdisk-ldisk/dev/sdb:8054 MB, 8054112256 bytes4 heads, sectors/track, 122896 cylinders, total 15730688 sectors  Units = sectors of 1 * bytessector size (logical/physical): bytes/512 bytesi/o size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes/512 bytesdisk identifier:0x3ac32cfc   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  system/dev/sdb1            4096      147455       71680    C  W95 FAT32 (LBA)/dev/sdb2          151552     2662399     1255424   83  Linux

6. Start

Plug the SDcard into the RPI and power up. As follows:

The main interface is XMBC's colorful screen, and then we can control it by using a mouse or keyboard or a mobile phone.

Subsequent content will be introduced in the next quarter.

Reference:

http://www.raspbmc.com/download/

Http://kodi.wiki/view/Official:Kodi_name_change_FAQ
Http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Install_XBMC_for_Android
Https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc
Http://kodi.tv/xbmc-for-android/
Http://kodi.wiki/view/Official:Kodi_name_change_FAQ

Raspberry Pi, a playful pie: Seventh quarter RASPBMC (UP)