*** Official Kodi (née XBMC) Thread ***

Andybtsn said:
Guys, I have a little mini PC that I put Ubuntu on last night and then installed XBMC, I'm only interested in XBMC so wanted the best performance from it and not a big O/S. Everything seemed to be working flawlessly and I left it scanning my NAS overnight, this morning it had finished and I rebooted the PC, Ubuntu booted up and XBMC appeared to have uninstalled. (Only had an install option when searching for it in the store)

I don't really trust Ubuntu now, what are my other alternatives? It's all on an SSD.
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Never used Ubuntu but if all you are using it for is Kodi then I'd suggest ditching Ubuntu and going straight to OpenElec! Just boots straight into Kodi so, I'd assume, there is less to "go wrong"!
 
OpenELEC all the way, mines running off a 8Gb usb stick, on an old amd x2 64 system
mem footprint is only a few hundred k , 300 films 600 tv episodes (on data hdd's obviously) still plenty of room on usb stick for the clipart etc. Generic mce remote off the bay for a fiver, openelec supports it by default.
 
I must admit I have OpenElec just on my Pi, how do I get it running straight off my SSD? How do I install it? Sorry for the noob questions.
 
No, the openelec logo screen. I've managed to get it working with another SD card now, but it still took me a few goes, so I wonder if the build is a little temperamental.
 
I might have been lucky but I had no problems with my SD Card. However I couldn't see on the OpenElec site a recommended minimum size. I'm currently using an 8GB card but I wonder if that will be big enough if there is lots of fan art etc.
 
picnic said:
Bit of a Kodi virgin but my Pi2 arrived this morning and the new OpenELEC image boots fine. Will play with it later and see how I get on.
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It's worth setting it up to boot from SD and store all library info on a USB stick.

SD cards are prone to corrupting on the Pi and I'm guessing it will be the same with the Pi2. Plus it actually improves performance for displaying fanart etc as the read speeds of USB are a lot higher than even class10 SD cards.

I can give you some direction if you need it.
 
Do you guys use airplay much? Appeared to be working for music although not outputting any sound but YouTube videos didn't work at all.

Could it be down to the skin I'm using? I'm on openelec.

It works fine around the house on my other airplay speakers and my redundant Pi.
 
Joebob said:
It's worth setting it up to boot from SD and store all library info on a USB stick.

SD cards are prone to corrupting on the Pi and I'm guessing it will be the same with the Pi2. Plus it actually improves performance for displaying fanart etc as the read speeds of USB are a lot higher than even class10 SD cards.

I can give you some direction if you need it.
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I didn't appreciate that so good info thanks. I've been following this thread for sometime and I'm tempted with the MySQL central DB approach but when I looked in to this the big caveat was all clients must run the same version of Kodi. Is OpenElec it's own version or does it play well with the latest Kodi (14.1) on a PC in this respect?
 
Andybtsn said:
Do you guys use airplay much? Appeared to be working for music although not outputting any sound but YouTube videos didn't work at all.

Could it be down to the skin I'm using? I'm on openelec.

It works fine around the house on my other airplay speakers and my redundant Pi.
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Could be wrong but I did read it was an ios 8.1 or so bug that was making this happen?
 
Some initial thoughts on my RPi2 compared to the original RPi and FTV.

- Performance of the Pi2 is significantly better than the Pi1. I was never happy with the Pi1 performance - mainly UI navigation rather than playback. The Pi2 is miles better.

- Although I've only briefly used it, I would say performance is about on par with the Amazon Fire TV, Live TV playback is much better so it appears - but that's more an android specific issue rather than the FTV specifically.

- I use the Eminence skin, menu transitions are pretty smooth with minimal lag between switching menus.

- Playback seems fine, I've tried a few 1080P rips, which played back fine. I'll try an uncompressed on at some point to see, but certainly ~10gb rips playback fine.
 
Scottland said:
Some initial thoughts on my RPi2 compared to the original RPi and FTV.

- Performance of the Pi2 is significantly better than the Pi1. I was never happy with the Pi1 performance - mainly UI navigation rather than playback. The Pi2 is miles better.

- Although I've only briefly used it, I would say performance is about on par with the Amazon Fire TV, Live TV playback is much better so it appears - but that's more an android specific issue rather than the FTV specifically.

- I use the Eminence skin, menu transitions are pretty smooth with minimal lag between switching menus.

- Playback seems fine, I've tried a few 1080P rips, which played back fine. I'll try an uncompressed on at some point to see, but certainly ~10gb rips playback fine.
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Excellent to hear, my SD card just got delivered today i've had my Pi2 almost a week and been itching to set it back up.
 
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