video playback

Back in October I started work on a new app for PiBox: an XM radio player. The hardware is an XMPCR, a device sold in the early 2000’s that connected over USB to a PC. The device didn’t last long. I think there was some concern that people would steal […]

PiBox: XM radio app (PiXM) and wifi scanning in PNC

Wed December 14, 2016 in Audio / General / GTK+ / Hardware / Linux / PiBox / PiBox Network Config / PiClock / PiXM / Raspberry Pi / Software Development / XMPCR tagged Android / busybox / colorado springs / graphics / GTK+ / laptop / Linux / linux journal / Media Server / PiBox / Radio / Raspberry Pi / Roku / routers / signal / Sirius / ui components / video playback / video player / wifi / ximba / xm radio / xmpcr

I just found out that I’ll be demo’ing PiBox at the Mini Maker Faire at Barnes and Noble, on Briargate Blvd just south of Chapel Hills mall on Saturday November 5th from 3-5pm. It’s the same demo I did for the larger CS Maker Faire but with less signage. I […]

PiBox @ Mini Maker Faire @ Barnes and Noble

Fri November 04, 2016 in Linux / PiBox tagged PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Video / video playback / wifi

PiBox Media Center v0.11.0 Release 2016-10-11 The PiBox Media Center v0.11.0 binary releases are now available for download. This release represents the first public release that will be demo’d at this weeks Maker Faire in Colorado Springs. It’s focus has been on performance, usability and developer functionality. Additional Information Meetup […]

PiBox 0.11.0 release

Thu October 13, 2016 in Linux / PiBox tagged BUI / gcc / GTK+ / HDMI / Media Player / meetup / metabuild / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / toolchain / Video / video playback (updated 2681 days ago)

I’ve been working on PiBox now for a couple of years. The immediate goal is a consumer-oriented device for video playback while not connected to the Internet. In other words, play movies while camping. I have longer term goals for it, but that’s where the project is aimed currently. At […]

Raspberry Pi: Kodi vs PiBox use case comparison

Fri February 06, 2015 in Hardware / Linux / Movies / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Software Development / XBMC tagged amazon / DVD / hulu / Kodi / Linux-based devices / Media technology / nfs / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Ripping / Subtitle / video playback / wifi / XBMC

This past weekend I completed verification that the build works on Ubuntu (see below). In this process I also cleaned up the component builds a bit, added documentation and verified that a build from scratch (no local archives) works correctly. And it does. The resulting packages provide a booting system […]

BeagleBox: Ubuntu support ready, stable build but no video playback ...

Wed April 20, 2011 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged BeagleBox / BUI / ubuntu / video playback

I've managed to build and boot Buildroot 2011.02 using the 2.6.32 Arago kernel and Crosstool-NG 1.8.2 with GCC 4.4.3 and uClibc 0.9.30.2. The build works just as well as the older Buildroot 2010.11 I had been using, but there is a problem with where fonts are being installed. For some […]

BeagleBox: Buildroot 2011.02 progress (toward video playback), Ubuntu and Linaro

Sat April 09, 2011 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / omapfb / Open Source / X11 tagged arago / ARM / beagleboard / BeagleBox / buildroot / cross compiler / crosstool-ng / DSP / gcc / kvm / Linaro / Linux / omap / OpenEmbedded / poky / rxvt / SGX / sysroot / ubuntu / uclibc / video playback / xfont / xfont_font-adobe / xfont_font-util / yocto (updated 4756 days ago)

I ported over Angstrom’s recipe for the SGX libraries into the BeagleBox build this week. It requires downloading the SGX SDK and unpacking it manually before you do the build. Angstrom will unpack it for you. And at the moment I’m not positive the layout I’ve created is completely correct […]