XBian is one of the fastest media center operating systems available for Raspberry Pi. In my early comparisons (Part 1 and Part 2), XBian showed better speed and performance speed over OpenELEC and Raspbmc. This post introduces the recently released XBian 1.0 Beta 2 update. What’s New in XBian 1.0 … read more
Last week, XBMC introduced a new XBMC addons website. XBMC, as you may know, is probably a one of a kind media center software for many operating systems, including Ubuntu and Windows. It is the core of media center operating systems such as OpenELEC, Xbian, Raspbmc, etc. Now why did … read more
Raspbmc is a minimal Linux distribution based on Debian that brings XBMC to your Raspberry Pi. While Raspbmc offers great features, it has been found to fall behind on speed and fluidity compared to other media center OSes. This post introduces the recently released Raspbmc October update. What’s New in … read more
Raspbmc is a minimal Linux distribution based on Debian that brings XBMC to your Raspberry Pi. While Raspbmc offers great features, it has been found to fall behind on speed and fluidity compared to other media center OSes. This post introduces the recently released Raspbmc September update. What’s New in … read more
New Out of Box Software, or NOOBS allows you to install OS on Raspberry Pi with just a few clicks. The name ‘NOOBS’ explains everything: it is for newbies (or for anybody who likes it simple). Recently, I introduced 4 media center operating systems for Raspberry Pi. Then, I presented … read more
Raspbmc is a minimal Linux distribution based on Debian that brings XBMC to your Raspberry Pi. While Raspbmc offers great features, it has been found to fall behind on speed and fluidity compared to other media center OSes. This post introduces the recently released Raspbmc August update. What’s New in … read more
Overclocking Raspberry Pi is a way to get the maximum out of the Raspberry Pi hardware. Device makers many times fix the components to work at lower speeds to improve reliability/life while also ensuring adequate performance. However, for many enthusiasts who are always hungry for speed and power, there is … read more
In this post, I will present a very simple USB plug-and-play Raspberry Pi remote control. Recently, I listed the 7 Raspberry Pi accessories to build a XBMC media center in which I listed a USB IR remote. If you are in the market for a Raspberry Pi remote control, you … read more
In the recent months the XBMC ESPN addon errors out with “script failed” error message as shown in the picture below. Using this ESPN plugin by bluecop is one of the 3 ways to watch ESPN on XBMC. Many users of the XBMC ESPN addon have reported “Script Failed!: plugin.video.espn3”, … read more