There is a lot of things you can do with Raspberry Pi, but for retro-game lover it can be a dream project enabler. Continue reading “Ultimate iCade Raspberry Pi bartop arcade mod – Part I – The Hardware”
Force Xbian resize partition when moving to bigger card
I have encountered this when moving my Xbian installation from 8GB card to 32GB one. The solution is to copy everything and force it to resize to 32GB.
1. dd copy old SD card to new bigger SD card (for example:
dd if=/dev/sdd of=/dev/sde bs=4M
where sdd is your old card and sde is your new SD card. Continue reading “Force Xbian resize partition when moving to bigger card”
Xbian/XBMC on Raspberry Pi tweaks
It seems that little bundle of joy called Raspberry Pi computer is perfect for media player and what better choice than XBMC. I have decided to use XBian distribution since it is optimized and tweaked just right. Here are few tips I have stumbled upon during setup:
Cache all filesystems (internet/local) and optimize cache fill rate to make playback as smooth as possible. In your /home/xbian/.xbmc/userdata/advancedsettings.xml you should add/edit following section: Continue reading “Xbian/XBMC on Raspberry Pi tweaks”