Unanswered Questions
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omxplayer: h.264 bitrates and encoding settings for stutter-free playback
we just received six raspberry pi boards with 512mb ram and plan to use them for hdmi playout. initial tests were working great with omxplayer, but we are experiencing extreme stuttering issues for ...
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Arch Linux kernel panics and firmware not working
Before the update I had linux-raspberrypi-3.1.9-33-arm and raspberrypi-firmware-20120418-2 installed. After I upgraded to raspberrypi-firmware-20120729-1, the kernel refused to boot (no kernel panics ...
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Locked (Atomic) Register read/write
I'm coding something using direct control of GPIO, there are some good resources around for this, such as http://elinux.org/RPi_Low-level_peripherals#GPIO_hardware_hacking ; the process involves ...
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How to make RTL8188CUS based wireless adapters work on Arch Linux?
There are instructions for Debian but not for Arch.
So far lsusb and dmesg show that the kernel detects and identifies it but the output of iwconfig shows nothing.
Thanks in advance!
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Is there a way to smoothly play video directly from a Blu-ray drive?
I tried to play compressed .mkv and compressed .m2ts and it works perfectly with omxplayer. I am just curious to know if I overclock my Pi to run .m2ts straight from a Blu-ray so it will not be laggy.
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QtMultimedia on RaspBerry Pi
I've been trying to get QtMultimedia working on Raspberry Pi for a few weeks now, cross-compiling using the BakeQtPi script, yet the QtMultimedia plugin never seems to find an appropriate service to ...
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Installing pymedia
I've got a project in mind and I would like to use the spectrum analyzer of pymedia to get frequency data from audio while it's playing.
Has anyone managed to install it? I've tried and failed. I've ...
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Raspberry Pi Raspbian Web Kiosk Virtual Keyboard Solution
I followed Alan D. Moore's step-by-step guide to have my Raspberry Pi running in kiosk mode.
I did my own configuration as I needed it to run on a touchscreen with no physical keyboard and mouse.
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SMSC95XX Ethernet Load Time
So I have a custom minimal kernel I have created which boots fine on the RPI. I'm using busybox for my init process. However I am having some trouble with the ethernet port. (This is on the model B ...
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Unable to start X after Cheese and VLC are installed
I installed Cheese and VLC from the Raspbian repositories. The programs worked perfectly until I tried to restart the computer. Now, after executing startx I get a black screen. After killing X I see ...
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Problems with close, read & write filedescriptors while cross-compiling on x86 Linux using Eclipse
Even though I am including <fcntl.h>, I keep getting
'write' was not declared in this scope
'read' was not declared in this scope
'close' was not declared in this scope
even though the ...
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A2DP stereo audio over bluetooth
Using the instructions in this answer I was able to get Bluetooth working with a small Asus branded USB receiver. I was able to see other Bluetooth devices in the area, but whenever I put my Motorola ...
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Would this touchscreen work with a Raspberry Pi?
I'm looking at getting this 659GL-70NP/C/T touchscreen for my Raspberry Pi but I'm not sure if the touch surface will work with the Raspberry Pi Android OS. Will it?
Thanks!
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Connecting to wifi disconnects the ethernet connection
I have a model B pi connected to an old router upstairs through ethernet cable. When I connect to this router with my laptop I can SSH and VNC to the pi no problem. When I then connect the pi to ...
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What method should I use to track a moving object with a moving camera (using resources of RaspberryPi)
I'm playing around with motion detection through a webcam connected to RaspberryPi using OpenCV and cvBlob in C++. I want to kick it up a notch and make a robot that detects and tracks movement ...
