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Raspberry Pi Media Center

By : Sam Nazarko
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Raspberry Pi Media Center

By: Sam Nazarko

Overview of this book

<p>Low-cost and high-performing, with a massively diverse range of uses and applications, the Raspberry Pi is set to revolutionize the way we think about computing and programming. Using it as a Media Center allows everyone to have a low-cost device that is always on, attached to their TV. <br /><br />Imagine controlling your TV with your smartphone, dynamically streaming content that you have on various devices across your home, as and when you want. Raspberry Pi Media Center will show you how to configure the complete experience using readily available and accessible tools, so that you too will soon be enjoying your media from the comfort of your own sofa. <br /><br />With this practical guide, you’ll discover how you can transform your Raspberry Pi into a powerful media center. Using Raspbmc (based on the XBMC distribution), you'll be shown how you can deploy and configure your own media center, including coverage of all the essentials from controlling your device with a TV remote or smartphone, to the creation and customization of your very own media library (including the conversion of any existing collection). You'll even be able to stream multimedia from your devices or directly from the Internet!</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Navigating Raspbmc


After installing Raspbmc for the first time, you will be presented with an interface much akin to this:

This menu makes available to us the following options:

  • Videos: For accessing videos that are not in your library

  • Music: For accessing non-video formats, such as music

  • Movies: For accessing videos that have been scraped as movies

  • TV Shows: For accessing videos that have been scraped as TV shows

  • Programs: For accessing scripts and plugins, such as the Raspbmc Settings add-on

  • Settings: For changing XBMC settings

We'll touch on adding content to the Videos and Music sections later. For now, we'll explore how to change settings.