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Potential Raspberry PI Project

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  • 25-03-2013 6:42pm
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    amallon
    Registered Users Posts: 110 ✭✭


    A local radio/internet tv station have been on to me about putting a system into local shops/bars/dentist waiting rooms etc. which would play adds and throw up local news. They have a server side stuff already implemented and at the minute are putting in PC's at the client side to stream the content.

    All I need the PI to do is boot straight into a browser which supports flash. I have been reading up on the PI and there are a whole load of OS's that it supports. Which OS is the best for this job?

    I'm more familiar with Windows but the PI doesn't support windows. Is there another similar (cheap) device could do this in Windows?
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    PrzemoF
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    Flash on RPI... I don't think it can be done.

    There is a whole lot of different distros (all linux based, so it's the same OS) and risc OS for raspberry pi.

    I'd rather forget about PI if you have to use adobe flash.

    P.S. You might try gnash on RPI - it gives some limited support for playing flash clips, but it doesn't support swf v10. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ Installing gnash on raspbian: sudo apt-get install gnash


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    amallon
    Registered Users Posts: 110 ✭✭amallon


    Thanks for the reply. I've bought a RPI to give it a go. If it doesn't work for this job I'll use it as a media center.


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    gctest50
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    Just buy an internet radio, been around for years ?

    http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/catalog_v2.cgi?id=30684&type=product


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    BionicRasher
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    or one of these
    great sound for the size of it and not a bad price either

    http://www.pixmania.ie/ie/uk/11676964/art/archos/archos-35-home-connect-in.html

    should do flash too and will play video files etc


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    mordeith
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    none of the browsers for the Pi support flash afaik. Even if one did you would need a fairly basic web page as the browsers aren't exactly fast. Having said that it makes an excellent media centre. I'm just waiting to setup my android phone as a remote for XBMC.


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    amallon
    Registered Users Posts: 110 ✭✭amallon


    I've had fun messing with the PI but as people have said it and flash don't really mix. I got flash working in midori but videos are unwatchable because the CPU is maxed out. I tried a few different browsers and OS's and nothing works. I even tried overclocking to the highest level but it doesn't help much.

    Those internet radios probably aren't what we need, we want the video to be displayed on big screens in reception areas. Does anyone know of a cheap mini PC that could be wall mounted behind a TV to stream this content?


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    BionicRasher
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    amallon wrote: »
    Does anyone know of a cheap mini PC that could be wall mounted behind a TV to stream this content?

    You could probably get flash working and plug one of these in to a TV - http://dx.com/p/hd18-arm-cortex-a9-android-tv-box-multimedia-player-w-hdmi-ethernet-126291


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