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

Stesingleday5987936 said:
Its a piece of cake to get set up and running but I'd recommend using the remote app on a smartphone to navigate as the UI is painfully slow when using a keyboard and mouse!
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Set it up yesterday originally through ethernet got the wireless dongle connected and the yatse app working great how ever when I installed add ons and tried streaming where it says (working) it was running incredibly slow and barely doing anything at times it wouldn't even load is it normal for the Pi to be that slow? I'll probably try over clock it tonight and see if that improves it, I'll also try ethernet and see if it's the wireless connection as apposed to the Pi being slow. Final question is that when I installed add ons it prompts asking to reboot xbmc once I accidentally did this and it froze xbmc is there a way to unfreeze or reboot properly or is it SSH only?
 
Youstolemyname said:
I've got a Raspberry Pi running Raspbmc upstairs and want to xbmc up my lounge now :)

The Pi is OK but it's a bit sluggish and tends to crash a bit using addons/complex skins. What's the cheapest way of getting myself up and running? Are these Android boxes any good or should I consider stripping down one of my old windows machines and making it silent ?
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I would say use an old PC every day of the week. Most people nowadays (certainly those on this site) will have a machine of Core2Duo spec or better laying around doing nothing, these will be perfect for XBMC, and you can still throw plenty at them without them struggling.

I've just repurposed an old E6300-based machine with 2GB ram to become an XBMC box, it runs beautifully and as it's hardly under any stress, it runs very quietly with all the fans set to auto-speed :)
 
Confused said:
I've just repurposed an old E6300-based machine with 2GB ram to become an XBMC box, it runs beautifully and as it's hardly under any stress, it runs very quietly with all the fans set to auto-speed :)
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same thing - any old bits lying around from old builds/2nd hand stuff makes a decent XBMC/server.
 
How much ram does a computer need to run xbmc ?
Mine has 2Gb but struggles to play some 3D 1080p movies without a lot of buffering.
2D 1080p play without buffering.

Is it simply a matter of bandwidth that my internet connection can't keep up with ? I'm getting around 4 - 6 mbps
 
I'm guessing it's some sort of net-top machine with a spec like that?

The GeForce 9-series don't hardware decode 3D to my knowledge. It'll be using software decode and hitting the limits of the rather weak AMD CPU.
 
Hmm got a bit of a weird issue.

I updated my downstairs HTPC from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1.

Ever since when i turn it on it doesn't load into XBMC, only onto the Windows 8 homescreen. I can Alt-Tab and XBMC pops up so it's definately running at start up.

Does anyone know if there's a setting to stop windows loading to the Home screen? I'm using XBMC Launcher.

I also updated the Acer Revo in the bedroom in the same way and that seems to be working fine.
 
Intel® NUC Kit D54250WYK
HD 5000
8GB Ram
128GB mSata

Got the above connected via a homehub with SMB shared to 2 PC's and it's all working fine using OpenElec from the SSD - but i am getting crazy buffering, every 5-10seconds the movie will pause and buffer!

I don't think its a network issue as using 12.2 Frodo on all machines I streamed the same movie to PC1 (Streaming from PC2) it's flawless (PC1 is my main PC, ivybridge i5+gt670) - but when the NUC streams the file from PC2... buffer buffer buffer. I'm moving a file over locally to just confirm it's not network either.

The nuc should be plenty powerful to stream 1080p content and it's connected to a Sony DN1040 receiver so I am wondering if it's a DTS issue... though I did switch audio to analog so got not sound by the file continued to buffer.

It's extremely annoying, anyone got any tips?
 
NUC will handle 1080p with ease. I would try and rule out the network first. Stick the file on a USB stick and play it from that. If it plays fine, it's network related. If that still buffers then it's a XBMC setting that's out of whack.
 
McDaniel said:
Intel® NUC Kit D54250WYK
HD 5000
8GB Ram
128GB mSata

Got the above connected via a homehub with SMB shared to 2 PC's and it's all working fine using OpenElec from the SSD - but i am getting crazy buffering, every 5-10seconds the movie will pause and buffer!

I don't think its a network issue as using 12.2 Frodo on all machines I streamed the same movie to PC1 (Streaming from PC2) it's flawless (PC1 is my main PC, ivybridge i5+gt670) - but when the NUC streams the file from PC2... buffer buffer buffer. I'm moving a file over locally to just confirm it's not network either.

The nuc should be plenty powerful to stream 1080p content and it's connected to a Sony DN1040 receiver so I am wondering if it's a DTS issue... though I did switch audio to analog so got not sound by the file continued to buffer.

It's extremely annoying, anyone got any tips?
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SMB can be a right pig. I sacked it off and use NFS instead with my REVO. 1080p DTS wireless thanks to the caching introduced in Gotham.
 
Metallifux said:
SMB can be a right pig. I sacked it off and use NFS instead with my REVO. 1080p DTS wireless thanks to the caching introduced in Gotham.
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How do I switch to NFS?

Seems to be network related as playing them off the device is flawless - it's odd because my main PC streams content fine - however its plugged into a TV direct so not sure it's transmitting the same level of sound detail?!
 
McDaniel said:
How do I switch to NFS?

Seems to be network related as playing them off the device is flawless - it's odd because my main PC streams content fine - however its plugged into a TV direct so not sure it's transmitting the same level of sound detail?!
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You need an NFS server. I use hanewin NFS.
 
Metallifux said:
You need an NFS server. I use hanewin NFS.
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I used this myself and added a couple of shares, tested some movies through SMB and NFS and they buffer in the exact same place - the first 1minute of Thor 2 does it in the same 3 spots :(

I've copied files locally and it plays flawlessly - so it def seems network related.

Nuc = connected straight to BTHomeHub 5 (latest one)
BTHomeHub 5 = connected to a Netgear 1GBit Switch (GS308)
PC1 = connected to Netgear Switch
PC2 = connected to Netgear Switch

Nuc = buffering from streaming from PC1/PC2
PC1 = no buffering from PC2
PC2 = no buffering from PC1

Not sure if it's the homehub connected to the switch which is causing an issue somewhere?

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also using Frodo 12.2
 
Just about to join the XBMC club again (I had the original XBMC when it was on an actual Xbox!)..

I've been wanting to replace my large/noisy HTPC (Q6600/4GB/Win7 + Mediabrowser) which just gets too hot in it's more snug cabinet that it's been housed in recently..

I do have a Playon MiniHD2 streamer I use in the bedroom, but that doesn't quite have the nice front end I like, and won't play x265 and struggles with the few odd DVD/BR rips I've done recently..

So I've bought a Zotac ID18, under £100 for a Celeron 1007U, and it will take a 2.5" HDD and has an ethernet port.. I was looking at the £125 i3 NUCs, but being wireless only is something I want to avoid..

I've got a spare SSD/4GB laptop DDR3 memory to throw in it, so I am hoping openElec runs great on it..
 
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