Raspberry Pi

[ChaosLord]

I run my 512Meg Pi at 1.1Ghz and my 256 Pi at 900Mhz

How many Watts did your 512MB Raspberry Pi consume originally?
How many Watts did your 512MB Raspberry Pi consume @1.1Ghz?

[ChaosLord]

OUYA? huh?
That one slipped below my radar.
Not bad.
Nice processor.

Ouya is only $100.00 now so its nice and cheap and is supposedly more powerful than Rpi.

I would happily buy a Ouya if PhoenixKonsole or someone could make a good AROS distro for it that made use of its GPU.

I love the Pi.  I don't really have anything against it.  But the Pi is optimized for low low low power consumption.  I have always valued low power consumption.  But in my situation any cpu I own will be permanently plugged into a wall outlet.  I will never ever ever run anything off of battery power.  So I don't need super extreme power conservative-ness.  If a computer uses 20 watts that is ok with me cause its plugged into the wall.  What this means is that I am happy to buy an ARM powered computer that is faster than Rpi and uses some more electricity.

Here is a graph of Ouya performance vs. Nexus 7 vs Galaxy S4:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/06/ouya-hardware-impressions-a-k-a-indie-game-the-console/

If someone has a Ouya vs. Raspberry Pi chart I would like to see it.

[ChaosLord]

[Talking about Ouya] I agree, it should have more flash, or better yet, an SD card slot. In addition, more than one (regular sized) USB would have been appreciated.

What is wrong with connecting a USB external drive dock thingy?  Then you can plug in your old 2TB drives forever and ever.  Its the most cost effective mass storage option.  Why buy expensive flash when you can buy cheap hard drives?

Also. The price for an additional controller is $50 usd, which is too much.

Then use a wireless PS3 controller or a wired Xbox 360 controller.  Or some other Bluetooth controller.

  It's nice enough, but without vibration

Vibration is evil and should be turned off at all times.

 or recharge features,

True but you can use rechargeable batteries.

[ChaosLord]

What resolution of movies can you watch with XBMC on a Pi?

[ChaosLord]

1080p

-edit- in Amiga speak: 1920×1080x24bit@60Hz

No way!

I assume that is only with .avi format?

What about .mkv or .mp4 or .h264?

[ChaosLord]

Yes the Pi's graphics chip can decode h264 in hardware in realtime... It can also encode h264 in realtime to, that functionality comes free with the Pi

Dude, ur exploding my mind.

Does Ouya have all the same magic that Rpi has, just more?

Can I assume that a Ouya would play movies even better than Rpi?


But just because Pi can do something in hardware does not necessarily mean it can play every single movie at 1920x1080 @60fps.  Some movies are much harder to play than others, especially scenes with a lot of small moving objects everywhere while the camera is rotating.  That is phenomenally hard to play correctly.

My bro has this pc with a 2Ghz core2duo and some kind of gfx card and it has severe problems playing 1920x1080 movies.  It can sometimes play them ok but usually the framerate jumps up and down wildly during the movie even when 2 ppl are just sitting there talking to each other.

I need to ask you a question: Do u (or did u) play a lot of FPS games on your home computer?

[ChaosLord]

I use this on my Pi and the UI is very responsive.

http://openelec.tv

I have the 512MB model running at 1GHz.

Does that distro support 4TB NTFS drives on the Raspberry Pi?
Read only?
Or Read/Write?

And if not, then what filesystems do ppl use on Rpi that support >4GB files?

[ChaosLord]

The Pi has no problem with HD video at all, the Chip was designed for video playback... The CPU core was originally just for housekeeping functions... But the RaspberryPi team use it for running an OS

It sounds like the same philosophy as the A1000!