Raspberry Pi Media Center (Paperback)

Turn your Raspberry Pi into a full-blown media center using Raspbmc. This guide has all the plain language instructions you need to control your TV with a smartphone and create your own media library. No special skills required.

Overview

• Discover how you can stream video, music, and photos straight to your TV
• Play existing content from your computer or USB drive.
• Watch and record TV via satellite, cable, or terrestrial.
• Build your very own library that automatically includes detailed information and cover material

In Detail

Low-cost and high-performing, with a massively diverse range of uses and applications, the Raspberry Pi is set to revolutionize the way we think about computing and programming. Using it as a Media Center allows everyone to have a low-cost device that is always on, attached to their TV.

Imagine controlling your TV with your smartphone, dynamically streaming content that you have on various devices across your home, as and when you want. Raspberry Pi Media Center will show you how to configure the complete experience using readily available and accessible tools, so that you too will soon be enjoying your media from the comfort of your own sofa.

With this practical guide, you'll discover how you can transform your Raspberry Pi into a powerful media center. Using Raspbmc (based on the XBMC distribution), you'll be shown how you can deploy and configure your own media center, including coverage of all the essentials from controlling your device with a TV remote or smartphone, to the creation and customization of your very own media library (including the conversion of any existing collection). You'll even be able to stream multimedia from your devices or directly from the Internet!

What you will learn from this book

• Clear instructions on how to get Raspbmc working on your Raspberry Pi.
• Learn how to navigate and configure XBMC.
• Discover how you can control your media center with your smartphone or TV remote.
• Build your very own media library with film, episode, and album descriptions and artwork.
• Share your content across multiple media center devices.
• Utilize PVR for viewing live TV and recording.

Approach

Constructed as a set of simple-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, this book will take you through numerous aspects of creating a fully functional media center with your Raspberry Pi. It is an easy-to-follow yet comprehensive guide to setting a complete media center experience using the revolutionary ARM GNU/Linux board.

Who this book is written for

This book does not require any prior knowledge of the Raspberry Pi, but it does assume you are computer literate and comfortable with Mac OS X, Linux, or Windows and concepts such as installing software.

將您的 Raspberry Pi 變成一個完整的媒體中心，使用 Raspbmc。這本指南提供了所有您需要的明確指示，以便使用智慧型手機控制電視並建立自己的媒體庫。無需特殊技能。

概述:
- 發現如何將視頻、音樂和照片直接串流到您的電視
- 播放來自電腦或 USB 驅動器的現有內容
- 通過衛星、有線或地面波觀看和錄製電視節目
- 建立您自己的庫，自動包含詳細信息和封面素材

詳細內容:
低成本且高性能，具有極其多樣化的用途和應用，Raspberry Pi 正在改變我們對計算和編程的思考方式。將其用作媒體中心，讓每個人都能擁有一個低成本的設備，始終連接到他們的電視上。

想像一下，用智慧型手機控制電視，根據需要動態串流您在家中各種設備上的內容。《Raspberry Pi 媒體中心》將向您展示如何使用現成可用且易於使用的工具配置完整體驗，讓您也能舒適地從自己的沙發上享受媒體。

通過這本實用指南，您將發現如何將 Raspberry Pi 轉變為功能強大的媒體中心。使用基於 XBMC 發行版的 Raspbmc，您將了解如何部署和配置自己的媒體中心，包括從使用電視遙控器或智慧型手機控制設備，到創建和自定義自己的媒體庫（包括轉換任何現有收藏品）。您甚至可以從設備或直接從互聯網串流多媒體！

本書的學習重點:
- 清晰的指示，教您如何在 Raspberry Pi 上運行 Raspbmc。
- 學習如何瀏覽和配置 XBMC。
- 發現如何使用智慧型手機或電視遙控器控制您的媒體中心。
- 建立自己的媒體庫，包括電影、劇集和專輯的描述和封面。
- 在多個媒體中心設備之間共享內容。
- 利用 PVR 觀看直播電視和錄製節目。

這本書的特點:
構建為一套簡單易懂的逐步指示，本書將帶您了解使用 Raspberry Pi 創建一個完整功能的媒體中心的多個方面。這是一本易於遵循但全面的指南，使用革命性的 ARM GNU/Linux 板構建完整的媒體中心體驗。

本書的讀者對象:
本書不需要任何關於 Raspberry Pi 的先備知識，但假設您具備計算機知識並熟悉 Mac OS X、Linux 或 Windows，以及安裝軟體等概念。