{"id":13807,"date":"2015-12-01T16:04:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T15:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13807"},"modified":"2015-12-01T16:04:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T15:04:23","slug":"slice-the-story-behind-the-raspberry-pi-media-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13807","title":{"rendered":"Slice: the story behind the Raspberry Pi media player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raspberrypi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5687-500x333.jpg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;FiveNinjas&#8221; (James Adams and Gordon Hollingworth from Raspberry Pi, Jonathan Williamson and Paul Beech of Pimoroni, and Mo Volans) have written an excellent blog post over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation in which they describe the trials and tribulations of getting the Slice media player to market using the Raspberry Pi Compute Module. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/creating-and-kickstarting-slice-the-compute-module-based-media-player\/\" target=\"_blank\">Well worth a read<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;FiveNinjas&#8221; (James Adams and Gordon Hollingworth from Raspberry Pi, Jonathan Williamson and Paul Beech of Pimoroni, and Mo Volans) have written an excellent blog post over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation in which they describe the trials and tribulations&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13807\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,12,30,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-compute-module","category-media-centre","category-raspberry-pi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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