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Banana Pro Blueprints

You're reading from Banana Pro Blueprints Leverage the capability of Banana Pi with exciting real-world projects

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783552382

Length 366 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Banana Pi

Concepts

Single Board Computers

Authors (2):

Ruediger Follmann

Tony Zhang

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Banana Pro

2. Programming Languages FREE CHAPTER

3. Wireless Projects

4. An Arcade Cabinet

5. A Multimedia Center

6. Remote Controlling a Smart Monitor Car

7. A Laser Engraver

8. Scratch – Building a Smart House

Index

Chapter 5. A Multimedia Center

Embedded boards have become increasingly popular when using a multimedia center. Although Banana Pro is not yet perfectly suited for Kido (formerly known as XBMC and Xbox Media Center), it is highly recommended when watching TV, especially HDTV. Several years ago, watching HDTV required a huge CPU consumption or special graphics cards running Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU). Today, Banana Pro can do this job while consuming only a few watts of power.

In this chapter, we will build a multimedia center, which can receive Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) television signals. In addition to this, it can be remote controlled, provides hard disk recording, and allows you to watch, for example, DVDs, or listen to audio CDs. Moreover, timers can be programmed in order to record movies.

We will install VDR and customize it using TV station logos and different plugins. This chapter provides all required preparations, starting with the kernel...

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Authors (2)

Ruediger Follmann

Ruediger Follmann

Ruediger Follmann was born in 1968 in Germany. He studied electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen, Germany, and received his PhD from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He has worked for IMST GmbH, Germany, for more than 20 years, where he heads the RF circuits and system integration department. IMST is a design and development company with more than 170 employees. He uses embedded boards in many different projects, for example, in order to control MMICs or hybrid electronics. Follmann is the author of many technical articles as well as Das Raspberry Pi Kompendium, Springer.

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Tony Zhang

Tony Zhang

Tony Zhang was born in 1990 in China. He studied control science and engineering at HIT, China, and received his master's degree in 2015. Since 2014, Tony has been working with LeMaker community, where he is the cofounder and is heading the R&D department.

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