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yomama
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Raspberry Pi / Raspbmc
It appears XBMC running on the Raspberry Pi (Raspbmc) can now use WMC as a backend. The same functionality as the Echo at a much less cost. https://googledrive.com/host/0ByNnAMYBo ... index.html
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richard1980
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Except it's not the same functionality at all. It's not even close.
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barnabas1969
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Yeah, if someone had hacked the extender code, we'd all be running Media Center extender software on our PC's! That would be a no-brainer.
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exigence7
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It looks like this is an XBMC addon that lets it get guide data, live TV, and recording from a WMC system. So you'd put the server software on your WMC and then you'd use XBMC clients elsewhere. Do I understand this right? If so, then it seems yomama was right - this allows you to get the same basic functionality of a WMC system at a cheaper cost.
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jeonunh
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I'm sure it doesn't support copy protected material, so it's not that useful.
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blueiedgod
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If it truly works as an extender, including the copy protected content, I would be interested in putting one together. It looks like the board and case will run about $50 - $60. Add IR receiver, and remote ($15), SD/USB drive ($10-$15) and you are easily at $90.
Used extenders go for about $50, used XBOXes for about $80, brand new Echo is $129 on sale, same for XBOX E, and will probably be $99 on BF.
As much as I want to tinker with Raspberri, seems like it will be a costly adventure, and may not support all of the content, in the end.
Used extenders go for about $50, used XBOXes for about $80, brand new Echo is $129 on sale, same for XBOX E, and will probably be $99 on BF.
As much as I want to tinker with Raspberri, seems like it will be a costly adventure, and may not support all of the content, in the end.
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machausta
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I use WMC for recording TV and XBMC for everything else -- so this is really good information for me.
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exigence7
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I'm a little ignorant of the whole copy protected content. I seem to recall that some shows get flagged as copy protected, so you wouldn't be able to see those channels. Would that apply to both live and recorded TV?
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richard1980
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Yes.exigence7 wrote:Would that apply to both live and recorded TV?
Combine the fact that there is no support for copy protected content, along with the fact that it has a completely different UI, and unlike the Echo, this probably actually works, I'd say this is about as far from "the same functionality as the Echo" as something can get.
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milli260876
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I see what you did there...richard1980 wrote:Yes.exigence7 wrote:Would that apply to both live and recorded TV?
Combine the fact that there is no support for copy protected content, along with the fact that it has a completely different UI, and unlike the Echo, this probably actually works, I'd say this is about as far from "the same functionality as the Echo" as something can get.
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barnabas1969
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It applies to both live and recorded TV... from Cable. Not over-the-air. But, even if it's copy-protected, you can still watch live/recorded TV on an extender for Windows Media Center.exigence7 wrote:I'm a little ignorant of the whole copy protected content. I seem to recall that some shows get flagged as copy protected, so you wouldn't be able to see those channels. Would that apply to both live and recorded TV?
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jawa78
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blueiedgod wrote:If it truly works as an extender, including the copy protected content, I would be interested in putting one together. It looks like the board and case will run about $50 - $60. Add IR receiver, and remote ($15), SD/USB drive ($10-$15) and you are easily at $90.
Used extenders go for about $50, used XBOXes for about $80, brand new Echo is $129 on sale, same for XBOX E, and will probably be $99 on BF.
As much as I want to tinker with Raspberri, seems like it will be a costly adventure, and may not support all of the content, in the end.
Raspberry Pi is all about things you pick up around the house.
Here is mine setup and it cause way less then your setup
Raspberry Pi Rev2 35 dollars
Case 0 Dollars ( made i out of old legos that we had around the house, why because who the heck tosses out legos )
IR Reciver - 0 NOT NEEDED HDMI CEC
Remote 0 dollars just used my tv remote see item above
SD card 0 Dollars 4 gig spare one of many SD is just one of the most widely used memory formats for devices. So likely hood you will have one.
Software = free
Yes it limited to copy freely but that still gives me 98 percent of my available channels .
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richard1980
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3rob3
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jawa78 wrote: Raspberry Pi is all about things you pick up around the house.
Agree, other than the Pi I had everything laying around. What distro are you running, Raspbmc? Are you seeing any lip sync issues? On mine if I start a recording, then skip ahead 20 minutes or so, lip sync got WAY off. I'm gonna try Openelec today to see if it's any different.
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jawa78
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3rob3 wrote:jawa78 wrote: Raspberry Pi is all about things you pick up around the house.
Agree, other than the Pi I had everything laying around. What distro are you running, Raspbmc? Are you seeing any lip sync issues? On mine if I start a recording, then skip ahead 20 minutes or so, lip sync got WAY off. I'm gonna try Openelec today to see if it's any different.
I am using the xbian distro and I do have a slight overclock in my settings to smooth out some gui response times. Which would go away if xbmc would render it ui via the gpu.
xbian now has an official pvr.wmc pluggin