Here's what I want to do: have a raspberry pi as a simple dedicated player of streamed video, like a kiosk. I have a dedicated small ethernet. On one node The rpi is connected to an HDMI display. The stream sender is a PC running ubuntu linux. I want to stream a video file from there across the ethernet and display it on the rpi. I've managed to set up a prototype connection with udpserver and udpsink, but the CPU maxes out and I can't find a way to use rpi's hardware decode and display. It "should" be possible in theory because I can use omxplayer with a local file on the rpi. There are examples of similar things everywhere, but I can't get them to work. The most common use case is rpi doing the sending and not the receiving.
Does anyone have an example of a PC generating streamable video from a file and sending it over network, and an rpi picking that stream and displaying using omx acceleration? I could do a lot given an example!
RPI is first iteration of hardware, a model b, so doesn't have the raw CPU capacity of the 3/4 models with multiple cores and higher clock rates.