My Raspberry Pi 2 is working great as a media player. I threw OSMC on it (a Linux distribution specifically for Kodi with specific support for Pi&#x27;s) and it is essentially flawless. It has no problem with high bit rate H264 videos. The lack of gigabit Ethernet isn&#x27;t an issue. 100Mb Ethernet can easily stream raw Blu-Ray video (not that I&#x27;ve tried that with the Pi 2).