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Multimedia demo at the Transfer Summit

Some more video for you today, this time not filmed by us (the camera announced that the only SD card I’d brought was corrupted 1.10 mins into Eben’s talk), but by Andy Piper, one of the conference attendees, whom I had a very enjoyable time talking to. Andy filmed this on his phone while I was busy pressing the open-source flesh – thanks very much for putting the video on YouTube, Andy!

What you’re seeing in the video is the Raspberry Pi running h.264 video at 1080p. (We didn’t have the audio hooked up so we could talk to people while it was running.) At the point this video was taken, this demo had been running for about 8 hours. I was busily getting attendees to feel the SoC, to emphasise the fact that it only draws 1W, staying surprisingly cool.

A couple of other notes for today. First of all, we’re aware we’re having sign-up problems with the message board and mailing list. This is because of a shonky MailPress update, which we’re trying to fix at the moment. And secondly, this week’s Slashdot Q&A is with our very own Eben Upton, so if there’s a burning question you’d like to ask him, head over to Slashdot and leave a post.

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Looking really great! How did most people react on it seeing it live?

There was a total scrum. It was awesome. :)

It was – very busy stand at Transfer Summit (I was an attendee!)

Too bad he didn’t focus on your QR code for 5 or 10 seconds – but otherwise awesome. The size comparison with the biz card was impressive – a trick you should try to get in all future videos of the Alpha board, perhaps?

At the mo, it’s about x2 the size of a business card, but the perspective in the vid made it look rather more impressively small than that!

Yeah sorry about that. All a bit of a rush with a mobile. Basically it looks like it could get to the size of an business card, the perspective in the video wasn’t clear.

The best thing to compare with is a credit card (upside down of course) since they’re the same size internationally.

Or some dimensions in centimetres of course! ;)

We don’t have exact dimensions yet (which is why you’re not seeing them) – final artwork won’t be completed until we’ve finished the round of work we’re on with the hardware at the moment, which involves sending versions of the schematics back and forth between several people a vast number of times, taking things out, rerouting stuff and generally fiddling, to try to optimise for performance and cost. The artwork should be back in a couple of weeks, at which point I can give you the final dimensions in actual, real-life, internationally recognised measurement units!

I am so annoyed I missed this. So I might try and push my luck, since you are already in the Oxford area we have a BarCamp this weekend, and I am sure people would really love to have some sessions with the R-Pi. Admittedly I realise you are very busy and will already be back in Cambridge, but thought I would ask.

I’m sorry! It’d have been really nice to come, but we’re already back in Cambridge, and Eben and I are in Cornwall this weekend.

Is the R Pi using hardware h264 decoding? Can it play other similar formats (such as XviD or Matroska) at a similar speed and resolution?

Yes, and yes. Good, innit? :)

It’s very impressive, I was really asking because I’ve seen hardware before that’s been able to play h264 very quickly and easily, and yet struggles with all the formats I actually use myself because the hardware decoder is essentially only compatible with h264.

Still, I have enough other planned uses for these things that I’ll buy a couple and see how they do!

What was the bit rate of the file?

For various reasons I am very interested in whether WebM could be hardware assisted/accelerated by the hardware on the Raspberry Pi?

If not right now, what’s missing?

A video codec block that’s WebM aware is what’d be needed – it would have needed to go in when we were designing the hardware. We did some studies about how much we could accelerate WebM, but pushing it past VGA looks challenging.

The raspberry pi is looking really great and I cannot wait for it to be released.

_drool_ I can’t wait to get my hands on one and to start coding :-)

Good stuff!!!
How fully implemented is the HDMI? Does it support HDMI audio out? CEC?

It’s a full implementation.

\o/

Will there be educational packs made available to help people get started with school/college clubs?

It`s Ubuntu ? Gnome 2 ? Mplayer ?

From the video, it didn’t look like there was a window manager at all for that particular demo. It definitely looked like a command line video player. My hopes are that was mplayer running, as it is my favorite media player :-)

Ubuntu won’t be great for Raspberrypi because 9.04 (I think) was the last one that will support ARMv6. Debian, which Ubuntu was based off of, should be a great choice though. As far as I know, there armel version should continue to work on ARMv6.

Gnome is a pretty memory hungry windowing environment. With a low memory embedded device like this, I’d suspect you’d want something much more light weight. I’d guess you can still run your favorite gtk and gnome applications though with the proper libraries from the repos.

Correct on Ubuntu. Also on the video player which is a custom one. We have tried LXDE desktop and that seems to work nicely.

you can try use OpenBox and Awesome and use Arch like native OS.

I asked my question becouse I wanna know how did you start HD video. What software did you use

I believe they stated elsewhere that it is a custom video player. What I *saw*, was Eben putting an SD card in the board, booting it, the console starting, and the movie playing. What I previously saw was it running what looked more like a Linux distro with desktop environment.

Before I saw the video demo (which did run over a console) I had seen it running a desktop, which I thought was GNOME 2, but it sound like might be LXDE from other comments from the RPI team.

Yup – LXDE. :)

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Wish I could have been there. Glad to see how well the alpha boards handle various roles.

@liz
Considering how MailPress is kind of buggy at the moment, what might the problem be with the forums (which I believe are using bbPress)? I’ve tried registering using three different browsers across three different connections to no avail.

Liz, with all the publicity on the geek sites (slashdot, geek, etc), you have an extra problem: determine how many raspi boards you need to manufacture. Do you a plan how to estimate that number?

http://www.raspberrypi.org/?page_id=43&mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=385

Ah: “our initial batch has to be 10k for reasons we’ve discussed elsewhere”

Thank you.

Even so I know and liked the Movie and do know the backgrond …. whose idea was it to show nazi symbols on something which is more or less a promotion video?

For real now, wtf?

Probably some hindu/buddhist guy… ?

It was just a film – Liz did offer to put something else on, I said leave it – I really didn’t think people would obsess on anything so unrelated. So if you want to “blame” someone, blame the guy who waved his phone in front of it… but seriously.

Unfortunately, RPi is getting international attention and attitudes differ so next time it’s probably worth picking a non-animation HD trailer that’s less likely to irk someone, somewhere. Clearly, Brad Pitt must remain. His career can only benefit from RPi’s endorsement and perhaps one day he can return the favour.

Nope … no hindu or whatsoever.

Maybe it was kind of unnecessary to post my opinion about this topic. But honestly, that’s what I thought.

Anyway, I’m still exited and will certainly buy one … or two :-) Keep up the good work!

I’ve read a little about the r-pi. It seems like it would be an ideal board for robotics applications, if the GPU were available for more than just 3D and video. Do you know of any plans to develop an API for these kinds of uses?

Absolutely amazing!

I would buy one, and I will talk about this to my friends.

Keep going! :)

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Is the video running from the sd card or the lan?

Is it possible to run a video from an sd card?

It’s coming straight off the SD card.

Take my money please!

Take it already!!!

Hello!

What about shipping and payment from other countries? (Ukraine, Russia, USA, etc…)
What cost of shipping? And how we will pay for Raspberry Pi? (Paypal, MoneyBookers, Google Checkout)

We don’t have charges yet because we’re still not set on a carrier, but you can get a flavour for the sort of charges you’ll be seeing from http://www.royalmail.co.uk. You’ll be able to use a card, PayPal or various offline methods (useful if you want to avoid transaction fees).

Will it be able to stream Full HD 1080P from server through samba+nfs?
Can openelec be ported on it? <-would be great!@!
Can it handle a touch screen for android port? Ice cream sandwich on it would be greater!
Thanks

ICS requires a more powerful Arm than Armv6 I’m afraid.

It should be able to stream full HD1080P30 over the network, although I’m not sure its been tried yet although it’s the same SoC as the Roku2 which already does that sort of think.

To see it run video is nice, but not enough. Question: how much speed in I/O transfer over ethernet? For example, to join an usb hard disk and to transfer through ehernet using a “scp” command, How much to move an iso DVD image? In other words, how much is the transfer rate?
To be clear:
usbdisk–>raspberrypi—>(crossed_network_cable)–>PC
I ask because i think to a possible use of raspberry as cheap/silent NAS.
(please, don’t answer “we dont know” but provide a simple test, i think it will not eat to much time…)

Sorry, but you are going to get a ‘Don’t know’ answer. They are all valid questions, but we don’t have time to test any of that at the moment- it’s not core to the basic reasons behind the device. There is higher priority stuff that needs doing.

That said I do intend on trying a USB HDat some point, but it will be tested over a wireless network as I don’t have a hard link (or crossed network cable) I can use at the moment.

“We have not time” and “is not this the main reason behaind the divice” make me unhappy, but i can understand (the pressure of deploy, deadline is aproaching etc).
To know there is not a cheap crosscable avayable in your hardware toolkit make me shocked. :S
I hope a large community will soon grow around this device as soon as it will get ready, so we – the customers – can at least test by ourself (and share) info because they lacks from developers. I/O bandwidth is a parameter that *MUST* be knew… Anyway, thanks to you when I/O wireless bandwith will be public.

Haven t used a cross over cable in 10 years. Might be one in the drawer somewhere I suppose.

I plan to do a speed test copying from the raspi SD card to USB drive over the weekend – wont be trying over a wired network though.

Last night I was occasionally getting over 1MB second doing scp from desktop to Raspi vcia wireless G. However, I’m using staging drivers for the wireless so its a bit erratic – would stall occasionally. Always recovered and was still connected via SSH this morning.

I should point out that although James is visible to you guys because he and Gert are the only devs posting here, we do have a lot of other people working on the device, and many of those are working on the sort of project you’re talking about. It’s just not James’ job to be dealing with I/O bandwidth; I don’t necessarily talk to the other devs on more than a fortnightly basis, so it’s not like we’re receiving daily updates I can point you at. If you wait until release, a lot of these questions will be answered for you.

I hope you can tamp down the unhappiness until then!

No offense to anyone here, but I just got a major CYBERWOODIE watching that video :-)…huzzah! For the Linuxheads out there…is there a way to do parallel processing stuff across ARM? That would be AWESOME if so; kind of like a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Compute Nodes.

Also – is the ethernet still stuck at a max of 100Mbps?

Awesome stuff, guys!

The matter is: what kind of calculatiuon you have to do? In this case (numbercrunching) the cutting edge are elaboration on GPU (big power) or FPGA (little size, few electrical power needed).
Unfortunately, you have to find by yourself the best device in function of some parameter as:
– hardware costs
– electrical power needed
– size
– time-to-results
– only-you-know-else.

Would a Cyberwoodie be similar to a full on robo chubby?

As to parallel processing, multiple boards could be networked in a cluster fairly easily we think.

In a way the board itself is already parallel (SIMD and MIMD!) – the GPU has multiple vector and other cores, that are all used whilst doing video ops. However, you cannot get programmable access to that stuff.

my previous question mysteriously disappeared :(

It was waiting approval – answers above.

Yeah, Thank You for sharing this video :)

it’s astonishing !

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Has JoeMonco weighed in on this at all? I can’t form an opinion without help from JoeMonco.

How many units will go for sale in Novemeber?

Our first batch will be 10k units.

Does anyone have an idea of what the demand for the first batch will be like? More to the point any idea how long it will last? Interest seems quite high & there may be large orders by some. Will there be a limit on order quantity if needed?

Stop teasing me :(

Hello! How is it possible to cost only 25$ ? Is this only the cost of manufacturing?
I cant wait to be released! Congratulations!

The Model A is $25, that the price to the end user. It’s sold close to cost, with just enough to keep the charity running.

And thanks!

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Wow. This device sounds awsome!
I allready toled all my friends about it xD . I whould like to use it as a media center as well. For a pice of 35$ (for the LAN model) I’m going to buy it anyway just to get testing what can be done with it.

Great work!
I can’t wait.

Is there any announcement regarding the release date?

Still planned for end of November.

Amazing achievement. Cannot wait for one. Howard Smith. http://www.csc.com

bad a$$! just what I need to take over the world!

From where will you ship it when it is ready? some place in UK?

hey cool,
i can use it for XBMC then?

The XBMC guys are hacking furiously on an alpha – keep your fingers crossed, but at the moment things are looking good.

Are you using OpenMAX IL to play the 1080p video or another interface ?

I understand you used a custom player, is the source code available ?

I can see XBMC team is currently working on OpenMAX implementation, so I suppose I probably should look at this…

It’s OpenMAX IL. The source code isn’t available, but we’ll be making something available at launch.

Yes, seriously…. I’d like to be able to play video like this from CLI without having to framebuffer from mplayer. Or is this similar in concept? I hope source comes out soon :D

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