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avida / webguy

My universal web server written in python

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Move TV mediaplayer from laptop to Raspberri PI #2

Open avida opened 9 years ago

avida commented 9 years ago

Current my webserver resides on my laptop. Well this is definately better than PC but has a lot of downsides:

I have to put out from hibernate every time I want to watch movie. And set it to sleep after I finished watching.
It consumes 20 watts while charging and 10 watts on full charge. Sure this is less than PC but still a lot (Start think of it after receiving eletricity bill , heh). And this repeatedly charge / discharge cycles could reduce battery lifetime.
Last but no least: I cannot use my laptop while watching movies !!

I want to set up my raspberry pi for watching movie over HDMI. So i have:

Find suitable movie player that supports hardware video decoding.
Programmaticaly turn on and off HDMI port.
Use samba fileshare service to browse files over ethernet.