Easy Raspberry Pi Media Player

By Michael Castor
Category: Raspberry Pi, Home
Time Required: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

Back in the days of the original Xbox. a program called XBMC was developed that could turn your game console into a capable media player. XBMC could play nearly any video or audio file known to man.

Over the years XBMC has evolved to work on other platforms and has been branched and renamed many, many times.

With the popularity of the Raspberry Pi, a programmer by the name of Sam Nazarko has ported XBMC over to work on this inexpensive yet capable ARM board. The result is a simple, elegant media player capable of 1080p playback which can rival products made by commercial companies that cost 3 to 4 times more.

Steps

Project Steps All
1. Insert wisdom here.

Step #1:

Insert wisdom here.

Conclusion

Works great doesn't it? Now you can expand by adding network media shares, downloading plug-ins, adding an IR remote, hooking up your stereo, and building a super fancy case!

Also, AirPlay is supported right out of the box! Try it and be amazed!

3 Responses to Easy Raspberry Pi Media Player

kent eh on March 29th, 2013 at 10:14 am said:

Step 1 (the only one?) :
Insert wisdome here???

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- Michael Castor on March 29th, 2013 at 10:50 am said:
  
  Hi Kent,
  
  This project is a port from this blog post: http://blog.makezine.com/2013/03/11/raspberry-pi-media-center-rocks-my-world-part-1/
  
  It’s still a work in progress but you should be able to follow along with the instructions there.
  
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mi on April 21st, 2013 at 9:22 pm said:

Check this out as well, its more quality oriented, and it focuses on audio reproduction… http://www.raspyfi.com

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