Guy using overclocked RPI2 as a desktop replacement reporting in.
-Firefox work
-360p videos work in the browser
-all videos work when streamed via script
-retro games work
Anyone else does the same thing for their light computing?
>>52908071
>360p
Wow anon, living on the cutting edge
>>52908088
I can view better quality videos in kweb3 browser.
The point is 360p works directly in Firefox, so I don't have to switch browsers to watch my videos.
>>52908088
Any quality you want.
I lost my script to make screenshoots of frambuffer video. Scrot gives you black window.
Raspberry Pi is not hot shit on /g/ anymore?
>>52908256
It's supported by people who are promoting Computer Science learning for all students, no so.
>>52908071
I'm gay for that keyboard. Why does it have to be so expensive
>>52908681
It's nice, but you can't switch Ctrl and Fn in it, which fucking sucks. It took me over 6 months to get used to it. I have normal Crtl/Fn layout on my Thinkpad that I use when I'm outside.
At first I thought island keys would suck, but it turns out I can type on it as fast or even faster than on the original high thinkpad keyboard.
>>52908726
>you can't switch Ctrl and Fn in it
Well that sucks. I use them switched in my memepad and didn't even think of that.
>>52908071
>360p
go to about config and search for the mediasource thing and enable it, and there's some other thing you need to enable, google for ”iceweasel mse h264" and there's some ghacks article IIRC
>>52908071
Disable hardware acceleration
>>52908071
I wanted to do it, but soundcard is terrible - not only quality-wise, but sometimes it lags or even freezes completely. I think it's safe to say that this shit is unusable as everyday computing machine without external usb soundcard.
>>52912410
I don't experience any problems with sound. My Rpi2 outputs sound via Hdmi cable and headphones.
>>52909166
The procedure broke the sound in my videos.
Nice tip.
Kinda want to do that with a Creator Ci20
If I can build a mini SGI or DEC lookalike case for it, I'll be set.
http://isebaro.com/viewtube/?ln=en
made video playback smoother.
What a great script.
>>52908071
I'm using an Intel d2500.
Can watch 720p videos in the browser.
Gave it 4gb ram and a hd 5450 512mb.
Sure, it uses a little more power, but it performs much better.
>>52915063
With my huge monitor power consumption is the key. With everything hooked up my RPI2 setup draws under 40 W of electricity. If I used my thinkpad with that monitor it would draw 70+ W. I dpn't want to think about my PC and microwave oven.
What is the best PDF viewer for scanned images?
qpdfview seemed nice, but it ate my entire ram once I tried to zoom in. Okular is fine for most PDFs, but when they consist of high quality images, it takes ages for the application to load next pages.
>>52915642
try mupdf
>>52914235
>Kinda want to do that with a Creator Ci20
PowerVR graphics, anon. Don't expect much.
>>52915642
sumatrapdf
>>52916168
Linux on Raspberry Pi, fool.
>>52916200
stay poor
>>52916215
I have Windows in a VM on different machine.
It's that I don't want to waste electricity to keep my PC running only to shitpost on 4chan, read documents and watch youtube videos.
Is it feasible to use the thing at all for any kind of word processing?
>>52915642
zathura --> lightweight
>>52917499
Why the hell not?
>>52917680
Tested both zathura and mupdf.
They both perform worse than okular when the PDF cosists of high resolution scanned images.
>>52908071
-Firefox work
WOW
-360p videos work in the browser
holy shit! that even more than 240p
-all videos work when streamed via script
via script? Impressive
-retro games work
The future is here!
>>52918246
>all videos work when streamed via script
>via script? Impressive
Most convenient way is to use kweb3 browser.
It comes with omxplayergui.
Just visit any video site, navigate to video and hit play button. The video will open in movable omxplayer video and stream with any quality.
Of course 1080p video might be too much for RPI's weak ethernet, but you can always buffer ahead.
>>52918246
Also, what else do you want from a shitposting machine?
What is this?
It came with the latest raspi-config update.
>>52918373
Ok, it allows you to switch resolutions on the fly, but it makes RPI slow as hell.
>>52918183
So can it be used as a work computer?
>>52918804
If you can live only with linux, then sure.
I need to boot windows from time to time just because I won't get Office 2010 to run on ARM.
For budget work processing machine, RPI2 is good enough in my opinion. Hell, you can use it as a terminal and connect to VM's that are running on the server.
>>52918804
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWQfHwqFepk
HOW NIGGA? HOW?!
I fell for the meme and expected a 2006tier desktop PC, but it wont even play any video(except for, surprisingly, WebMs) without lagging like shit! I used Ubuntu Mint on it, if that matters in any way
after the big dissapointment I tried out OSMC and I'm VERY happy with that. I can stream movies, watch Youtube, listen to my music and that pretty fast
>>52919219
>I used Ubuntu Mint on it, if that matters in any way
Yes it does.
RPI2 with proper configuration, debian and correct overclock gives you decent performance.
To play videos use software that can utilize the GPU. With no hardware acceleration you will need all 4 cores to play videos.
Use this on RPI1
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=40860&sid=1e4e9e17fd0b4f0e7bfcb0247552a45darm_freq=1000
sdram_freq=466
core_freq=466
over_voltage=4
temp_limit=80 #Will throttle to default clock speed if hit.
gpu_mem=128
over_voltage_sdram_p=4
over_voltage_sdram_i=4
over_voltage_sdram_c=4
disable_overscan=1
Long story short,
git good
>>52919313
Also Debian Jessie
and I keep my root folder on an SSD xD
>>52919382
>>52919219
You have Rpi 1, 2 or 0?
>>52919620
RPi2
I just finished downloading Raspian Jessie and will install it in an hour
>>52919649
Read how to overclock this shit, test if it's stable and then read how to configure your system to work fast. Default config is not that fast at all.
Upgrade your firmware.
I bough MPEG codec from their fucking store so that I could watch some of my downloaded videos faster.
Try opening the video using kweb3 and report back. Same thing for Iceweasel. I'm curious how will you perform.
>>52919649
And set up correct memory split. I have 128MB for gpu. The overclock setup posted higher is not the best my RPI can do, but I wanted it to be stable. I had some problems with 1100Mhz setup but later it turned out the problem was caused by pulseaudio, not the overclock itself.
>>52919649
Additional options in cmdline.txt
dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/sda1 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=noop rootwait
Don't touch root=
if you are booting from SD card.
And check our the I/O speed of your SD card. My guess is that your SD card is slow as fuck and that's it. As for the Firefox/Iceweasel I have NoScript enabled to block excessive javascripts on some sites.
JS can kill even more powerful machines.
>>52919833
Think about disabling disk cache in Firefox if you plan on using uSD card. Put what you can in RAM.
>>52919928
http://linuxonflash.blogspot.com/2015/02/optimizing-performance-on-raspberry-pi.html
>>52919717
>>52919778
>>52919833
>>52919928
>>52919958
thanks for the help senpai
about to try out everything
and yeah, my SD card could be one of the problems. it's just a class 4 Sand Disk(don't know about the read and write values. will test it)
How well doeshwdec=rpi
work?
>>52920044
Class 4 gives you 4 MB/s of transfer.
And you are complaining that something works slow? Dude...
I get 31,1 MB/s on USB SSD while watching the fucking youtube video at the same time.
>>52920142
Who knows? I use omplayergui to play videos, or Kodi or even Mplayer (on 4 cores) when I don't have accelerated codeds for that certain format.
Do I have to compile mpv from source?
>>52920189
well, everything(loading, buffering and saving) works very fast in OSMC with the SD card, so I assumed that shouldn't be the problem
>>52920485
Make sure that you are using a video player that supports OpenMAX.
Start with playing video with omxplayergui.
You will need youtube-dl and omxplayer installed. I'm taking a break.
>>52920189
pretty sure that class 4 is supposed to write at 4MBs, read will definitely be faster. Use hdparm -t to find out.
>>52908495
>2016
>not using retroarch
>>52918804
I'm making a document, use pdfs as source, draw using a tablet, check out things on the web, manipulate images in Imagemagick, have fb chat opened in pidgin and everything still works fine.
>>52922265
That's actually really cool, so is it a feasibly budget pc for like, schools and shit?
>>52922806
>for like, schools and shit
In my opinion yes.
I use it for my academic projects and assignments.
Whenever I don't need large computing power to do stuff, I choose to do my work on RPI2.
>>52908071
Are the ODROID-XU3/C1 capable of this support? Are there any hardware issues known for those platforms to support Linux distros at the moment?
>>52922930
Even when you do need to use a larger computer, you should have access to more powerful machines at an academic facility.
Whenever I needed to run simulations at university, I'd just SSH into the department server from my laptop and run them on their machines.
>>52923000
ODROID has more computing power, has worse community support, costs more and draws more power. That's it.
>>52923049
Yes I can remotely connect via SSH.
I still carry a ThinkPad x220 with me, because I never bothered to construct a portable shell for my PI. You still need a better machine to do some things in Visual studio or to model something chemistry/physics related.
>>52920223
mpv is in Debian-main so you shouldn't need to.
>>52921618
I tested the class 4 card and it strangely had 8,3MB/s write and 19,6MB/s read
>pic related is the card
>>52923222
Maybe the fabs only produce Class10 now, and just market some of them as Class4 for market separation.
>>52923167
Just tested default package from Jessie.
It works like shit and in software mode
--hwdec=rpi
does nothing.
You have to compile proper version of mpv yourself.
>>52923222
If you are not downloading videos to RAM then writing them to /tmp might slow down everything.
>>52923222
Install your system on a USB stick if you don't have a USB 2,5'' HDD.
>>52908071
Broadcom requires a firmware blob to boot the CPU. Therefore it is a dead end. Don't waste your time with it.
Plus they also "enable" their shit.
>>52908071
I think RPi2 is getting pretty close as a desktop replacement for many light-weight uses.
The CPU speed and RAM are pretty close to sufficient now.
The big remaining obstacle is the slowness of the SD card flash. If they can get that upgraded in the next generation (maybe add some on-board NAND?), I think that will balance out the system nicely and we'll have a feasible low-end desktop.
For the ports, I would say the one obvious omission is SATA. I think RPi will probably need to add SATA in the next release because a number of their competitors already have it.
tl;dr -- I think about one more year and RPi should finally have all the pieces in place to be a true low-end desktop replacement.
>>52923556
>Broadcom requires a firmware blob to boot the CPU. Therefore it is a dead end. Don't waste your time with it.
They will eventually open-source it.
The experimental GPU driver is open-source and it showed up recently.
>>52923222
why wodl you use antithing else than clas 10 cards?
>>52923613
If it would come with a Gigabit ethernet separated from the USB bus and a SATA port it would crush all competition.
What about the pine64 guys?
>>52923728
Class 4 are cheap and good for cameras and the like if you don't need to record video.
>>52915518
Why is 40 extra watts a big deal?
>>52923094
Well, I mean if its hardware is known to work with upower rules and udev, etc., in addition to the kernel support. I own a RPI B and it's great for emulation, but the level of acceleration is very limited, especially with the memory it carries.
>>52924116
It makes a difference on my power bill. Not everyone earns tons of dollars just for being stupid.
>>52908071
I wonder how anybody can stand watching one whiny bitch and one guy with no opinion on a subject, when both of them usually have no idea what they are talking about.
>>52908071
he should see about finding a working port of MiniTube on there, as it plays without the need for a browser, and supports up to 1080p.
>>52924165
I like to hear someone talking in English while I work. Also, I get news about Internet dramas and retro gaming from them.
Man, I just want top tier mobile phone hardware in a small computer with a 2.5" SATA bay or or M.2 at a reasonable price, is that too much to ask for?
>>52924313
Why bother when I usually listen to the videos, not watch them?
>>52924326
What is a DPU?
>>52924320
I usually do too, but there are better channels for retro gaming and for internet drama. I just can't stand that little crybaby. And most people can't as well.
>>52924363
Display Processing Unit apparently.
>>52924383
Like?
>>52924422
For internet drama, Mundane Matt, maybe Sargon or TL;DR, Bearing. For retro games, not that much channels just about talking, but talking about games without showing them is pretty stupid by itself. So LGR, RetroGameTech (bit inactive, but his videos are great), maybe even GameSack, even if their "research" is, let's say, limited. (This game is in Japanese, so we won't bother looking up the plot, which is translated on the wiki page) For a PC retro gaming (and general retro hardware) PhilsComputerLab is exceptional for his subscriber count.
>>52924686
I listen to LGR and GameSack but they don't do podcasts. They review games. Internet drama alone doesn't interest me.
>>52923722
The open source drivers don't replace the giant blob. You still need the blob for accessing RAM, booting, USB... it's essentially firmware for the entire SoC. There's another project to replace the blob itself but it's probably four or five years away from being useful.
>>52925569
How is this different from every other fucking PC on the market?
Inb4 Richard Stallman
>>52925636
Imagine the drooling retards who write GPU drivers at AMD or NIC drivers at Broadcom writing the firmware for every part on your mobo.
>>52924326
Linux on a stick sticks are becoming more popular. We'll have it soon
Odroid xu4 has decent hardware but no sata.
Orange pi plus has sata, but slightly weaker hardware.
>>52922930
I've finished my project!
Time to shitpost.
>>52908071
I do the exact same thing, except I dont overclock.
Im very impressed that the Rpi works as well as it does for how cheap it is.
Im using it as my main desktop while I save up for a PC
>>52927281
Please tell me you don't have the terrible onboard audio connected to that very nice receiver.
>>52927281
Want to play some OpenArena on Tuesday?
>>52927281
I've successfully overclocked RPI2 to 1100MHz.
If you are afraid, set it to 950 or something.
By changing configs for your RAM you can actually feel the difference in speed.
over_voltage_sdram_p=4
over_voltage_sdram_i=4
over_voltage_sdram_c=4
is a protip
>>52927305
Usually no, because I usually use my phone when I want to watch videos, but I sometimes do when I browse /wsg/.
I just use the headphone jack to RCA, werks
You have any suggestions on getting audio out of the pi?
>>52927363
I think I might try overclocking, I didnt think I needed it before but Ill give it a shot.
I do have power issues sometimes though, the light goes off and I get the square and the whole nine yards, do you think that would be a problem?
>>52927339
I have no idea what that is
>>52927564
>I do have power issues sometimes though, the light goes off and I get the square and the whole nine yards, do you think that would be a problem?
Get some protection. Even if you don't overclock a sudden powe outage might fuck up your SD if you keep your filesystem on it. For overclocking get a usb hub with its own power supply and hook up rpi and everything else to that hub.
>>52927564
>I have no idea what that is
Open source quake III clone that has a version optimized to run smooth on raspberry pi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJB64gn6Mo
i want to plug my RPi2 to my trinitron so i can play retrovidya on it.
AM I FUCKED ? there's a composite V and a A stereo outpout, but it's on the same unique port.
If i get a splitter i can make it work so i can have Video and Audio at the same time or am i fucked ?
>>52927564
>You have any suggestions on getting audio out of the pi?
You can plug in a usb sound card or stream audio via HDMI.
>>52927735
>a sudden power outage might fuck up your SD
its happened three times already ;-;
it seems to be fixed now though, hasnt happened in a couple months
A USB hub would protect it? That would just free up the power used by the keyboard/mouse wouldnt it?
>>52927781
nevermind me i need a 4 pole jack rca that's all
>>52927781
Get a hdmi to "whatever you have cable"?
>>52927874
>That would just free up the power used by the keyboard/mouse wouldnt it?
Good hub gives you more power than regular usb charger. Check out my hub that I have posted in this thread. For best protection move your system to usb stick or hdd and set boot partition on SD card to be read only. Thanks to that the files won't get corrupted on sudden power loss.
>>52927874
>A USB hub would protect it?
It would protect it from power surges. Good power strip would do the same. Nothing other than a UPS will protect you from power losses.
>>52927874
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=59652
>>52927948
>>52928011
I will look into purchasing one of these
Assuming you >>52927948
are OP, the one you use looks nice but I cant find one that delivers to US, Ill find something though
>>52927836
This sounds unneccessary due to my infrequent use of the rpi sound, but I will keep it in mind if my habits change
>>52927780
Sounds cool, Ill check it out
>>52928041
Yeah, power problems I have are just multiple little blinks when the pi gets overwhelmed, I think Im just going to get a hub
>>52928127
>Sounds cool, Ill check it out
Another not that obvious propsition i classic OpenXCom. Everyone knows emulators, but native linux ports can also be fun.
>>52928127
>Yeah, power problems I have are just multiple little blinks when the pi gets overwhelmed, I think Im just going to get a hub
You can see the rainbow square in the corner, right? Your rpi needs more power. Also powering power hungry devices directly from the pi is a bad idea. My logilink hub gives 5V 3A of power and it can give power to an ssd, rpi, keyboard, trackball, usb stick, external hdd, 2 gamepads and a running smartphone. Every combination of devices work and my RPI has overvoltage set to 4v.
>>52928297
>>52927948
>>52928011
How does this look anons?
http://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Port-2-5A-power-adapter/dp/B00DQFGH80/ref=dp_ob_title_ce
I cant really seem to find anything better that
>>52928480
For a good price at least, I dont want to spend a fortune on this thing
Plus I know Amazonbasics stuff is good
>>52928480
Still me.
Previously I used UNITEK but it burned down during a storm.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B011I4KPTM/ref=mp_s_a_1_15?qid=1455244384&sr=8-15&pi=SL75_QL70&keywords=usb+hub+3+amp#immersive-view_1455244521513
>>52916215
Oh no, you've destroyed every single Linux user's hopes and dreams! They use something that's free! They must not be able to afford a Microsoft (TM) Windows (TM) Genuine Experience (TM)!
Seriously though, how is a bloated as fuck Windows installation going to fit on and run well on a Rasperry Pi?
>>52908071
I've considered hooking mine up on my bed for ultimate lazy fatass just-woke-up shitposting, but I don't feel like dropping so much on monitor mount just for that
>>52928582
Ups. This looks like a charger. I have Unitek that looks the same but has a usb slot on front to connect to the PC.
>>52928631
The point of having a stationary device is that you have to leave the bed and wake up to do anything. Staying in bed kills productivity.
>>52928582
Just bought one of these, its in the mail
Thanks anon you rock
>>52928631
>>52928601
Get this and install wine?
http://eltechs.com/product/exagear-desktop/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GUP27TJ5w4
>>52928731
Pain in the neck.
Mainly because I have a shit tier pillow and also probably scoliosis
>>52928698
Have you checked if it's a USB hub or a wall charger? The device from my link is a wall charger. My mistake. You want the one like in my pic, with a micro usb slot.
I want to use a raspberry pi as a NAS/server to store backups on. Is there an easy way to have SATA drives in raid on there?
>>52928781
http://www.davidhunt.ie/raid-pi-raspberry-pi-as-a-raid-file-server/
>>52928758
its a USB hub thats powered from the wall, what I needed
I dont need the Micro USB slot, I have a nice enough cable
The USB hub has ports for 2.4A USB devices, so itll work out
best 50 dollary doo hickey mini pc?
>>52928989
How will you transfer data from the hub to the RPI if there is no communication usb cable comming from the hub? If you only want to charge rpi from it than it's fine but you are wasting 5 usb ports.
>>52928989
Please send us a link to the one you have bought. I don't want to see you raging aboit your wrong purchase on /g/ in near future.
>>52929100
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B011I4KPTM/ref=mp_s_a_1_15?qid=1455244384&sr=8-15&pi=SL75_QL70&keywords=usb+hub+3+amp#immersive-view_1455244521513
>>52929078
okay now I see what you mean lol
why though?
are you poor?
That's literally the only reason to do this.
>>52914153
recompile your browser and ffmpeg with all the options turned on
:^)
>>52929255
saving up
not OP but thats my reason
>>52929238
Yeah, you are fucked. You bought a wall charger with 6 usb slots, not a usb hub.
>>52928781
stop, just get something better
rpi is total shit at it and super fucking slow for anything I/O based
>>52929284
Well I just cancelled it soooo no biggie :)
Guess Ill keep looking
>>52929255
Electricity costs money. Running a tower PC to read a pdf file or create a text file is retarded.
>>52929315
Cool. I'm going to bed. Will be back in 2.5 hours.
>>52929330
Have a nice... nap?
Thanks for the help
All this #CUPodcast
>>52915518
Lol my athlon 5350,8gb ram, 240ssd, 23inch dell led 1080p draws about 55w full load. Probably less than 30 at idle. The extra 10w seems worth having an actual computer.
>>52927781
i used 3.5mm 4 pole from an old video camera, just had to hunt and peck at the right ones to hook up (for some reason, the ones i have use Red as the video signal, but it works)
>>52929373
my C2D draws 0 watts when unplugged!
>>52929373
>23inch dell
40'' philips
Larger monitors draw more power, you know?
>>52929316
That's a difference of a handful of dollars per year. Your monitor will be consuming far more power than your PC, be it an intel desktop or a raspi.
Calculate how much you're saving in energy per year, then calculate how much time you spend waiting for the raspi to perform tasks that would be done instantly on a more powerful machine. I guarantee that if you have a job, even at minimum wage, the time savings will outweigh the energy savings.
And that doesn't even touch the benefits of not gimping yourself to shit like 360p videos.
tldr; people who think this is saving them money are real tight jews.
"However, when comparing the results to newer Broadwell and Bay Trail processors, not only was the modern Intel hardware faster but it was also more power efficient than the two tested Raspberry Pi development boards."
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=raspberry-pi-burst&num=6
>>52929438
I need large monitor space, ok?
2 smaller monitors draw more power than 1 40'' monitor. Are we clear?
I don't want to explain to you why having 2windows opened side by side boosts productivity. If you were a programmer you would know.
>>52929438
>then calculate how much time you spend waiting for the raspi to perform tasks that would be done instantly on a more powerful machine.
I can see no difference on task that I perform on my RPI. I'm not rendering videos on it you bloody fool.
>>52929438
Also 1
You can stream videos in higher quality. Thanks fot reading the thread
Also 2
Rpi with an SSD is 100% silent. The silence helps me concentrate.
>>52929486
How much do they cost, dildo?
>>52929438
Oh yeah, and I don't live in a fucking Murrica and I don't have dollars to waste. Electricity costs money. We don't have nuclear power plants.
>>52927879
cool thx senpai
>>52908495
what game is that? It looks familiar
>>52929687
Gex
>>52929687
Gex the gecko 1 on PSX.
I also play Rayman 2 right now.
There do many retro games you can run on rpi that i will have enough games for the rest of my life. Modern games are shit anyway. This is not /v/ so let me stop at that.
>>52929750
is this retroPie ?
>>52930040
nope, retropie works without X
>>52916154
Doesn't bug me, not really into video content. Honestly I just want one because it's MIPS-based, I'd probably end up running it headless.
