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Raspberry Pi Cookbook, 4th Edition
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Raspberry Pi Cookbook, 4th Edition

by Simon Monk
December 2022
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
618 pages
12h 41m
English
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Chapter 4. Using Ready-Made Software

4.0 Introduction

This chapter contains a number of recipes for using ready-made software on the Raspberry Pi.

Some of the recipes in this chapter are concerned with converting the Raspberry Pi into a single-use appliance, while others use specific pieces of software on a Raspberry Pi.

4.1 Making a Media Center

Problem

You want to convert your Raspberry Pi into a super-duper media center.

Solution

To use your Raspberry Pi as a media center, you should go for the superior performance of the Raspberry Pi 4 B, as video playing is very processor intensive.

You can set up your Raspberry Pi as a media center while using the Raspberry Pi Imager (Recipe 1.6) to write to a microSD card. Instead of selecting Raspberry Pi OS as the distribution to install, select LibreELEC from the Media Player OS section of the Operating System button (Figure 4-1).

Figure 4-1. Using the Raspberry Pi Imager to write LibreELEC onto a microSD card

LibreELEC is a distribution that optimizes your Raspberry Pi as a media center. It incudes the Kodi media center software, which is based on the XBMC open source project that was originally developed to convert Xbox game consoles into media centers. The code has since been ported to many platforms, including the Raspberry Pi (Figure 4-2).

Figure 4-2. Raspberry Pi as a media center

Raspberry Pi is perfectly capable of playing ...

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