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Comment on Openelec vs Raspbmc vs Xbian by mud ray (@mudray1)

mud ray (@mudray1) — Mon, 06 May 2013 02:09:42 +0000

5/1-5/13: I spent 4 days trying to get important things to work on raspbmc (e.g. basic library functions, streaming from all computers, other). Great effort Sam Nazardo, regardless. Very impressive.

Only 1 hour on openelec and everything worked great. That was my experience.

Wish I had read this page first. My raspbmc SD cards will now be reformatted to openelec.

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Comment on Openelec vs Raspbmc vs Xbian by Griffin Jones

Griffin Jones — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:33:23 +0000

Thanks for the comparison. The first version I tried was Raspbmc with the usb install. It worked a whole lot better than just with the SD card. I have it running upstairs on a 512MB Pi @ 720

OpenELEC is installed on a 256MB pi @ 720. IMO it performs better than Raspbmc and just maybe Xbian with this amount of memory.

Xbian is my favourite and runs on my third 512MB pi @1080. To me it is the smoothest and most refined but there really isn’t that much between them. I would be happy to use any of them and would recommend all three of them.

Comment on Openelec vs Raspbmc vs Xbian by vincenzoampolo7

vincenzoampolo7 — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 05:33:38 +0000

You can do that on raspbmc as well. I just think raspbmc doesn’t play well as more than a media center.

Comment on Openelec vs Raspbmc vs Xbian by Enrique

Enrique — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:33:49 +0000

Hello,

First of all sorry for my English. This is the best article I have found to see the differences between this three distros.
I am now using raspbmc. It’s quite good but I am going to begin to use my raspberry Pi for other porpouses and I prefer to be sure that I can do “apt-get update/upgrade” whithout any problem. As far as I can see, the only distro that let me do this is Xbian. Am I right? Thanks.

Comment on How to make usb disks readable by all users on Raspbmc by Vincenzo Ampolo

Vincenzo Ampolo — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:32:25 +0000

The fact that you are commenting line 12 of the second part and adding line 13 does exactly that. Instead of run udisks-glue as user pi, it runs as root.

Comment on How to make usb disks readable by all users on Raspbmc by Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:19:54 +0000

Would like to know, too…

Comment on Openelec vs Raspbmc vs Xbian by Roarman

Roarman — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 04:53:47 +0000

Great article and been using Raspbmc and had some stability issues, don’t use it very often but when i want to watch a movie in that room it seems to alway loose HTTP connection and i have to reboot it to reconnect my iphone. I will have been wanting to switch to OpenELEC for a while now, and now i will for sure! I also wanted to recommend “XBMC Constellation” for iOS it is a more complex interface compared to some of the others, but once i figured it out it has become my favorite out of all that i have found for iOS.

Comment on Openelec vs Raspbmc vs Xbian by Chris Glen

Chris Glen — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:44:26 +0000

I have used all three distributions over the last couple of months. I don’t run any fancy things like web servers, torrenting stuff or other add-ons to xbmc. I just use xbmc to access by HD movies, that are on my windows share, via the network cable to my sony tv.

All three do the job, but there a different quirks in each.

Openelec was the easiest to install, its menu navigation is a bit slow, but movie playback is perfect – never skipped or had buffering problems. Changing between different movie library views is very slow and I had trouble with subtitles not showing.

Raspbmc was a bit more difficult to install and took much longer – I’m not sure why. Interface & menu navigation is even slower than openelec,but movie playback is fine, except it seems to take a while to buffer when you seek ahead. Subtitles all worked fine. Returning to the home screen when a movie is playing is really slow.

Xbian was easier to install than Raspbmc and it was the quickest to install too. Menu navigation is also the quickest out of the three which is really good as I spend quite an amount of time browsing my video library, flicking between movie detail screens is way quicker on xbian than raspbmc, and so too was loading a new movie. Again movie playback is fine, although it too was also a little slow a rebuffering when seeking ahead. Subtitle support was great. Using CEC via my tv was also way faster than openelec (I couldn’t get it working on raspbmc) which in turn also made menu navigation much more snappier.

All in all I am happy with all three and they are all usable as media centres, however 1st place definitely goes to xbian with its much faster navigation just making it so much more pleasant to use.

Comment on Openelec vs Raspbmc vs Xbian by zieglercoJ

zieglercoJ — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 07:23:06 +0000

There is a beautiful irony in some asking a foreigner, who actually speaks good English anyway, to write proper English ffs. Last time I checked acronyms, particularly text speakesque ones, were not proper English.

Jack, you appear to be an ignorant, rude, Whiney little b****.