Raspberry Pi, a playful pie: Nineth season RASPBMC Best Practices

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Use RASPBMC Nearly one months, this period has had the joyful also has had the embarrassing episode, now organizes into RASPBMC best practice to everybody.

First, the heat sink

The temperature of each chip will be higher when playing video for a long time, and adding a heatsink will prolong the life of the hardware. When I bought the board with a few heat sinks, it is time to use them. Please see below.

Second, upgrade to Kodi

After Christmas in 14, XMBC made an upgrade. In the previous article also mentioned the renaming of things, Kodi is the newest name, starting from 15. So this Christmas upgrade will directly show Kodi's name in the upper right corner of the screen.

The upgrade of RASPBMC is automatic, you don't have to care about it deliberately. But after this upgrade, there is a very tangled problem, that is, CPU occupied, has been hovering around 100%.

This high CPU usage makes each operation very slow and the user experience plummeting.

It was because of this that I mentioned "Xu Sanxiang" and he found a way to solve it. And my approach is to migrate the system to Openelec. This is something.

Third, the use of TV remote control kodi

Cec:consumer Electronic control, literal translation into consumer electronics. It provides the use of remote controls to control devices connected via HDMI. And our Raspberry Pi and RASPBMC systems have been supported from both hardware and software levels. The next step is to see if our own home TV also supports this feature. One of the methods of judging is that when RASPBMC starts, the bottom right corner prompts "CEC supported adapters are connected", indicating that your TV supports this feature, you can use the remote control of our RASPBMC, this feature really released the phone. Individuals think that using mobile phone control, just to show off in front of friends.

Knowing that your TV supports CEC, we'll also set it up because this feature is not started by default. Here are the settings for my Samsung TV set:

Four, Chinese search

Sohu Video plug-in comes with the Chinese search function, which I would like to find in the vast number of movie names I want to see the film I really convenient a lot. Other sources, such as popular, also provide this search feature.

Five, Youku TV

It is recommended because the interface is designed for the TV, and the clarity of the source is also very good. Weaknesses are played when the time is segmented, a few minutes, the middle of the switch when the screen will be black. Please see:

Raspberry Pi, a playful pie: Nineth season RASPBMC Best Practices