Let's brainstorm..Setting up MinimServer to feed a USB DAC

[PeteManchester]

(25-11-2013 06:21)wappinghigh Wrote:  ^ I have a Pi with Raspbmc on it.. what do I do? I'd like to give it a try…

I had a quick look at the Raspbmc image and at first glance I agree with Dave that when using XBMC you cannot use a USB DAC, the only output options seem to be HDMI or Analogue (but I don't know much about raspbmc...)

However I tried to install my mediaplayer on the Raspbmc image and that worked with a USB DAC (Sabre U2 Async).

The install was fairly simple the only difficult part was installing Java which was slightly more complicated than usual because the raspbmc image seems to have the some of the apt sources missing and so I had to manually install Java.

I don't know if I would recommend the combination of raspbmc and my mediaplayer though because xbmc.bin is taking a lot of CPU time..

Are you using XMBC on the raspi? Or were you just trying it, if you are not using XBMC then maybe it is quicker and easier to just load the standard Raspian image onto your SD Card, if you are still using XBMC then it is possible to install the mediaplayer as well.

Cheers,

Pete.