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

Erm for 3D I just play the movie and tell the TV it's SBS....

As for Nuc there are many many models and prices to choose from.. Cheapest XBMC player is a raspberry pi but the menus and super fast and doesn't support heavy skins.
 
When you say "cheaper" NUC, what do you mean? Have you looked at the celeron NUC (DN2820FYKH0)? ~£95 Drop in 2gb RAM and a £5 USB stick with OpenELEC and bob's your auntie.
 
ubern00b said:
When you say "cheaper" NUC, what do you mean? Have you looked at the celeron NUC (DN2820FYKH0)? ~£95 Drop in 2gb RAM and a £5 USB stick with OpenELEC and bob's your auntie.
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Well it's kind of more than I wanted to spend to be honest. This is why I was thinking of using Plex due to already having a server. If I can get something like an Ouya for £50 that can do everything such as 1080p/maybe HD audio and works well then I would be interested in that.
 
wildest_jjk said:
Well it's kind of more than I wanted to spend to be honest. This is why I was thinking of using Plex due to already having a server. If I can get something like an Ouya for £50 that can do everything such as 1080p/maybe HD audio and works well then I would be interested in that.
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You know the old saying... buy cheap buy twice :)
 
ubern00b said:
You know the old saying... buy cheap buy twice :)
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Yeh I know lol. It's risky but I spent loads on this server and planned to use Plex. Then I realised XBMC has quite a few more addons etc which means I need something higher powered to run it.

Think I will investigate the Ouya for now. If not then I may look into a cheap HTPC just because I feel I can at least upgrade it easier than an NUC. But that's when I can convince myself to spend more! :P
 
Going by your spec thread looking to build a htpc for £100 i'd say that what you are looking for just doesn't exist. Your choices are to either settle for one of the media streaming boxes and accept that there isn't one that does everything well or up your budget for something like a NUC/htpc.

With your £100 budget I'd probably just buy a WDTV for your local streaming needs (already been mentioned they go second hand for ~£30) and a Roku Streaming Stick to cover the internet streaming apps.
 
DN2820FYKH0 with openelec all the way to the moon and back again.

I have one running the latest openelec, and I have to say, its perfect.
 
Same as me, wanted a small box for xbmc, went NUC after playing with a few others. Perfect.

Faster than my bedroom HTPC (low power dual core Athlon) and uses around 10watts watching 1080p.
 
How easy is it to install the new OpenElec to a USB stick on a RasPi? It was quite hellish doing it the first time around (Frodo) but I'm quite tempted to upgrade. Scared of breaking my install though :(
 
Scam said:
How easy is it to install the new OpenElec to a USB stick on a RasPi? It was quite hellish doing it the first time around (Frodo) but I'm quite tempted to upgrade. Scared of breaking my install though :(
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It is the proverbial piece of wee wee....mind you my install was on an SD card and not a USB stick, but they should be the same.

Despite havin girt up and running on my Pi am having a fedw crashes, but think I may have a 'low spec' Pi with not enough memory...so is either one of three options....get new Pi, move old PC from upstairs downstairs and suffer the fan noise (should not be too much) or find a cheap NUC that everyone seems to be going on about...not sure where to get one of those from though.

I do have a WDTV Live Hub, but have not got on with it at all...
 
Thanks for all the responses guys.

I understand what you are saying and I think I know I'm not going to get everything for that budget now. My problem with the NUC is that it's not upgradeable at all really in the same way that an HTPC would be. That's if I want to spend more.

What do you think?
 
HTPC is going to cost you upwards of £200, so still double the NUC. What exactly do you want to upgrade in the NUC bar HDD or RAM? The onboard GPU can handle all the video decoding and processing leaving the CPU cores doing almost nothing.
 
ubern00b said:
HTPC is going to cost you upwards of £200, so still double the NUC. What exactly do you want to upgrade in the NUC bar HDD or RAM? The onboard GPU can handle all the video decoding and processing leaving the CPU cores doing almost nothing.
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I do have some salvageable parts that could be used for an HTPC such as HDD's and RAM. Surely it would have better performance than an NUC? I know nothing about them so I am probably wrong.

Thanks for the help.
 
For what though? If it's for media use then it won't need upgraded for a long time. h.265 is the next step in codecs, which the celeron NUC probably couldn't handle, but that's such a long way off that it's of no matter. I'd be surprised if it replaces h.264 before the next 5 years tbh and even if you did build something better to handle it in the future you'd need to spend a helluva lot more than you currently plan on.
 
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