Monthly Archives: August 2012

Raspberry Pi – OpenELEC 3D 1080p DTS video playback performance test

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Introduction
As you might haven’t seen i’ve written an article which measures and compares different media features on Raspberry Pi running an OpenELEC distro. So this test is about the same thing but only comparing video playback over network share.

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NASA – Curiosity First Color Image

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As you know NASA have sent a huge robot, named Curiosity, to the planet Mars to find if it already had life in the past. After a successful landing, Curiosity has taken a photo which is a view of the north landscape. This photo was acquired by the MAHLI (Mars Hand Lens Imager).

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RaspberryPi – OpenELEC + TVheadend (PVR – DVB-T) performance test

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Introduction
Raspberry Pi is a revolutionary device which increased the DIY community. Although its limited processing capability every one is trying to output the best of it. The objective is to pull this little device to its maximum by doing amazing things!

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Laser Harp

I find this so awesome! How about you?

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OpenELEC Add-on – sysstat

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For my previous post I needed some tools to monitor Raspberry Pi CPU usage. SYSSTAT provides that and:

  • iostat reports CPU statistics and input/output statistics for devices, partitions and network filesystems.
  • sar collects, reports and saves system activity information (CPU, memory, disks, interrupts, network interfaces, TTY, kernel tables,etc.)
  • and much more.

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