Gen 5 NUC performance in Kodi using Mint

ChrisD. · 20 May 2015 at 10:22

Hi all, does anyone have a gen 5 NUC running Mint and use it to run Kodi?

It's the setup that I'm using, but Kodi runs like a dog at times. Even with 5GB files or so, the display can be choppy, as is browsing the menu system. I'm presuming it's a driver issue as when I ran it on my old HTPC with an AMD APU and the AMD drivers, it was fine. Any idea which is the correct intel driver to install? The NUC is a NUC5I3RYK with the i3, so the graphics is an Intel 5500.

FerretBoy · 20 May 2015 at 11:24

Do you need mint? If not run openelec

ChrisD. · 20 May 2015 at 21:29

I want the ability to watch YouTube, can this be done in OpenElec?

kidloco · 21 May 2015 at 00:31

S2KIP said:
I want the ability to watch YouTube, can this be done in OpenElec?

Yes

ChrisD. · 21 May 2015 at 11:40

I'll give it a go tonight, thanks.

Deep · 21 May 2015 at 12:18

S2KIP said:
I'll give it a go tonight, thanks.

There is a YouTube app through Kodi (XBMC)
You can then share videos from your phone to Kodi using Yatse (app for Android)

ChrisD. · 23 May 2015 at 11:29

I've installed openelec, and copied my saved XML files to /storage/.kodi/userdata and I've rebooted the box. But it's not picking up database or my films or TV shows. Any idea?

Performance is miles better though.

ChrisD. · 23 May 2015 at 12:58

I think I've found the issue. It boots so quickly that the network card isn't up when it tries to connect to the database.

ChrisD. · 23 May 2015 at 13:09

Fixed it.

Put autostart.sh in /storage/.config/

Code:

#!/bin/sh
ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig eth0 PUT <ip of machine>
route add default gw <ip of router>

FerretBoy · 23 May 2015 at 13:45

there is an option in openelec to wait for network.

ChrisD. · 23 May 2015 at 13:57

Ah, might have saved me an hour or so researching had I known/seen that.

ShakenNstirred · 24 May 2015 at 04:46

Watch YouTube in kodi, that's what I do

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ChrisD. · 24 May 2015 at 11:10

Yeah it's all up and running smoothly now with YouTube installed.

Can't get over how slick it is, very happy with the performance.

FerretBoy · 24 May 2015 at 11:36

Now put aeon mq5 skin on it and set backgrounds of main menu to sideshow your art. Avoid if you don't like lots of configuration

ChrisD. · 25 May 2015 at 14:47

I'm not a fan of Aeon to be honest. I always find my way back to the default skin.

Dsteviedee · 26 May 2015 at 12:01

Hybrid is quite pretty and easy to set up.