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I use a Pi on my kitchen TV, running OpenElec.

The menu's are slower than using on a PC, but it's not a dreadful experience. All videos play fantastically on it, no complaints in that department.

My Pi does the decoding.

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Personally, I wish it was a bit faster in the menus.

If I was adding another, I think I'd seriously consider one of these..

http://www.solid-run.com/

Either or Cubox or a Hummingboard.
 
bledd. said:
I use a Pi on my kitchen TV, running OpenElec.

The menu's are slower than using on a PC, but it's not a dreadful experience. All videos play fantastically on it, no complaints in that department.

My Pi does the decoding.

-

Personally, I wish it was a bit faster in the menus.

If I was adding another, I think I'd seriously consider one of these..

http://www.solid-run.com/

Either or Cubox or a Hummingboard.
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Whoa!

They look amazing! Literally ready to plug in and play.

Thanks for that successful spanner in the works :D
 
bledd. said:
I use a Pi on my kitchen TV, running OpenElec.

The menu's are slower than using on a PC, but it's not a dreadful experience. All videos play fantastically on it, no complaints in that department.

My Pi does the decoding.

-

Personally, I wish it was a bit faster in the menus.

If I was adding another, I think I'd seriously consider one of these..

http://www.solid-run.com/

Either or Cubox or a Hummingboard.
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To get around my pi's being a bit slow on the menus I used Yatse remote, Ran very smoothly on my nexus 5 and negated the need for browsing through menus
 
I'm quietly confident that OpenElec 5 will increase the performance enough for me to stay happy :), should be out any day now..

The Pi works great using the Yatze app on Android to control it. This is the best way I find to launch things, as the library is already pre-cached in your phone.
 
iMacMart said:
Fair point..
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It's got more features, better performance and is considerably smaller than my current HTPC.

The only thing mine has an advantage of is a full blown SSD in it with 128gb of storage. Otherwise it trumps it in every way.

Gotta be done I think! :D
 
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Phate said:
It's got more features, better performance and is considerably smaller than my current HTPC.

The only thing mine has an advantage of is a full blown SSD in it with 128gb of storage. Otherwise it trumps it in every way.

Gotta be done I think! :D
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You have an SSD in yours :eek:
 
After using nothing but SSD's for years now, having something with a normal mechanical drive is actually painful. :D
 
iMacMart said:
MELE F10 3 in 1 Fly/Air Mouse+Wireless Keyboard+Remote Control
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I've just bought this.

The air mouse is extremely annoying as it activates everytime you hit the back button. So you have to keep switching it off on the remote, as the directional button doesn't work when the air mouse is activated.

I've read that you can re-programme them, but this seems too much hassle.

I just use the official app that came with the box. The one that I downloaded from MiniX is awesome. It may work for other platforms too?
 
I'm having a few problems with my htpc at the moment.

Tried windows 7, openelec versions 4.2.1 & 4.97.2 all freeze after a certain time watching and it's getting annoying.

System Spec

AMD Athlon 5350
Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 4GB (1x4GB)
Asus AM1I-A
Silverstone 300w sfx
OCZ Vertex 2 120GB ssd
Also tried it on several USB sticks

The main problem you can see here

http://openelec.tv/forum/90-miscellaneous/73005-random-freezes-on-amd-kabini-platform
 
iMacMart said:
What are you guys using as remotes for the XBMC units? I use my iPad but it's clunky to say the least, the forest has some nice remotes but just looking for cheap and effective unit as it's not used a great deal

Thanks
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Standard Apple Remote. Not much use for the Windows users mind...
 
So last night out of boredom I actually bothered to sit down and sort out the problem I've been having with the HTPC.

It's now running fine and I watched Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy and it was great.

Will hold off from the cubox thing for now it's working again. I still have some tweaking to do and will add in some scheduled tasks for maintenance reasons, then hopefully I can just leave it and never have to touch it again.

Wow I'm lazy...
 
Lord Alibaski said:
At least you lot have your systems running I can't even get mine to run without freezing.
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Endless problems with it running under both windows 7 and 8.1... over at least 4 different hardware variations... it would freeze/crash frequently.

Usually once you got a movie playing, it would complete & I think it managed a couple of days without a lockup... but I got so used to it freezing it just annoyed me and I went back to just VNC/VLC for years.

Windows Media Center always worked better, but the screen tearing is annoying... so I was thinking about moving to a mac mini as htpc.

Decided with the latest variation of Intel hardware (with improved refresh rate matching) to just update it in a silent/fanless build.

Same problems with my last two hardware variations on Windows... perhaps my library is too big with over 700 films or something?



Yesterday installed Kodibuntu... I haven't seen XBMC running this well before, the playback is smooth and not a single crash yet noticed!

Will give it some more time/use and report back.

Latest specs:

Core i3 4360 (3.7GHz dual core)
8GB DDR3 1600
Gigabyte H97-WIFI (mini-itx)
Streacom FC8S & 150W PSU (external power brick like laptop, fanless CPU heatpipes connect to big heatsink on side of case)
120GB SSD (although thinking of ghosting it to a spare 50GB OCZ I have as I won't use this space without having windows sitting behind it)
 
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