[for sale] Slice Media Player

[hallb15]

I'm selling my beloved Slice media player.

 

If you don't know what the Slice is its essentially a rasp Pi B+ running Kodi with a 1TB HDD and all the bits required to make a really decent media player/streamer.

 

You can find out more here:

FiveNinjas - Making Great Stuff - Making Stuff Great

 

And the original kickstarter campaign is here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fiveninjas/slice-a-media-player-and-more/description

 

Its been amazing, still is amazing, and I'd keep it if it supported 4K. The only thing that's ever gone wrong with it is the original remote which I've replaced with a keyboard remote. It works with any XBMC remote anyway.

I was toying with the idea of re-using the rasp Pi for an arcade machine but decided I don't have time for that at the moment.

 

I'm open to reasonable offers.

[supportman]

Nice always wanted one of these in the past but I also moved to 4K now. I prefer an Nvidia Shield these days as it does 4K fine and just installs Kodi from the App store.

[SpuffMonkey]

I might be interested - pm me the sort of money you're looking for

 

Oh and a couple of questions - can it play H265 video and can it connect easily to a local server (rather than copy files over) and if so - does the server need to run specific software?

 

Cheers

Edited November 26, 2018 by SpuffMonkey

[hallb15]

I might be interested - pm me the sort of money you're looking for

 

Oh and a couple of questions - can it play H265 video and can it connect easily to a local server (rather than copy files over) and if so - does the server need to run specific software?

 

Cheers

 

Yes it can connect and stream from a local server - either via the built in ethernet port or wifi via USB dongle (supplied) Or you can play off a USB stick. You don't have to copy anything to the internal HDD if you don't want to.

I've never tried to play an h.265 file, most 1080p videos seem to use h.264 - as h.265 files have a higher compression ratio, that would suggest they require more CPU to decompress so the rPi may struggle. I don't know but i'll try and find an h.256 file tonight and let you know how it gets on.