OpenELEC 5.0 • Hacker News Board

Re: OpenELEC 5.0

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Post by veesahni » Mon, Dec 29, 2014, 4:01 PM UTC

petepete wrote: post #6

storrgie wrote: post #5

I just bought the cubox to try this out on (Before that I was using i3 intel NUCs, so my cost will go from around 400$ per node to 100$ per node). I cannot even begin to evangelize how awesome this project is. You can keep all your source content in a central place with very little system requirements and do all the unpacking on a tiny arm/intel system. Interface is fantastic, and paired with yaste its the best media…

I have this exact setup: a Cubox-i4 Pro in the front room and RPi in a bedroom) connected to my QNAP NAS which runs a shared (MySQL) library; it's fantastic. Can't recommend it highly enough.

Is it possible to pop up Chrome with this setup to do some lightweight browsing on the TV?

Re: OpenELEC 5.0

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Post by sciurus » Mon, Dec 29, 2014, 4:10 PM UTC

lnanek2 wrote: post #9

Ra1d3n wrote: post #7

This is a very confusing name. My first thought was that this is a opensource election software.

Agreed. At least XBMC had "media" in there. If they are going to use such meaningless names, they should just always stick "media software" after the name in all posts or something.

XBMC just changed its name to Kodi.

http://kodi.tv/

Re: OpenELEC 5.0

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 29, 2014, 4:10 PM UTC

lnanek2 wrote: post #9

Ra1d3n wrote: post #7

This is a very confusing name. My first thought was that this is a opensource election software.

Agreed. At least XBMC had "media" in there. If they are going to use such meaningless names, they should just always stick "media software" after the name in all posts or something.

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Re: OpenELEC 5.0

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Post by ChikkaChiChi » Mon, Dec 29, 2014, 4:16 PM UTC

Since their initial Chromecast support, Plex has won out in my home thanks to its better metadata support and sharing libraries through their website.

Does anyone with OpenELEC/Kodi experience if this is still the case? Should I switch?

Re: OpenELEC 5.0

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Post by agumonkey » Mon, Dec 29, 2014, 4:18 PM UTC

Ra1d3n wrote: post #7

This is a very confusing name. My first thought was that this is a opensource election software.

Would never have guessed that it stands for Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center.

Re: OpenELEC 5.0

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Post by johnchristopher » Mon, Dec 29, 2014, 4:33 PM UTC

lnanek2 wrote: post #9

Ra1d3n wrote: post #7

This is a very confusing name. My first thought was that this is a opensource election software.

Agreed. At least XBMC had "media" in there. If they are going to use such meaningless names, they should just always stick "media software" after the name in all posts or something.

I kinda like how `KODI` comes from known visuals.

To me XBMC has always sounded more about XBOX than MediaCenter and it feels weird running it on the pi on pc when it has nothing anymore to do with XBox.

Re: OpenELEC 5.0

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Post by Panino » Mon, Dec 29, 2014, 4:43 PM UTC

Nice, this release switches from OpenSSL to LibreSSL. Also kernel 3.6.17, with the new getrandom(2) syscall. Good crypto improvements.

One question I have is how LibreSSL allows them to drop both OpenSSL and GnuTLS -- why did they previously require both?

Re: OpenELEC 5.0

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Post by tgpc » Mon, Dec 29, 2014, 4:50 PM UTC

vegardx wrote: post #8

I can warmly recommend the Gigabyte Brix GB-BXBT-2807 to anyone looking for a completely fanless, quick, and fully supported device. As of OpenELEC 5.0 wireless and bluetooth has been working out of the box. They're on the expensive side of the spectrum, but very quick and neat little boxes.

another one: any chromebox (and use the EZ Setup script for OpenELEC) (I have the hp one and am very happy with it)

Re: OpenELEC 5.0

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Post by johnchristopher » Mon, Dec 29, 2014, 5:14 PM UTC

Nux wrote: post #2

Very grateful for the OpenELEC distribution. Worked great on my RPi and now seriously considering to replace Fedora on my HTPC NUC with it, as well. If any of the devs read this, THANKS a bunch and happy new year!

The only gripe I have with OpenELEC is the fact `their` linux isn't as easy to add applications to than raspbmc is (or other distribution paired with xbmc/kodi).

Re: OpenELEC 5.0

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Post by muaddirac » Mon, Dec 29, 2014, 5:28 PM UTC

ChikkaChiChi wrote: post #14

Since their initial Chromecast support, Plex has won out in my home thanks to its better metadata support and sharing libraries through their website. Does anyone with OpenELEC/Kodi experience if this is still the case? Should I switch?

I do the same thing - NAS to store media, with plex running on my laptop (which is always on anyway) chromecast on my tv and the plex app on my phone to control everything. Definitely feels like the future, but like you I'd be curious to know how this setup compares to others.