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Re: OpenELEC 5.0

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Post by vegardx »

tgpc wrote: post #18
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)

I can't believe I didn't think of the Chromebox when researching for a good device. They look perfect for the job, and a lot cheaper too since you don't have to get DDR3L memory.

Re: OpenELEC 5.0

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Post by Veratyr »

kayone wrote: post #24
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 want to switch to plex for my TV media center software, I really do but the thing that keeps making me move back to xbmc/kodi is the seek lag (trying to skip to the middle of a movie) and sometimes it just freezes while fast forwarding. to be fair, I haven't use the plex media center app, my experience is based on chromecast/android app and the android tv app. (my plex server is running a quadcore haswell i5 with 8…

I haven't used the Android app but I can vouch for the Media Center app. We use it nearly every night at home and it works beautifully.

Re: OpenELEC 5.0

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Post by Veratyr »

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?

We used to use XBMC and switched to Plex. We still use XBMC occasionally when I haven't added something to Plex yet but in general I find the experience of Plex is much nicer. Once you set it up you can pretty much just forget about it.

I haven't found any way for XBMC to transcode and stream or sync to other devices, which are very handy features of Plex that I'd hate to lose.

Even just having a unified experience is great. It feels painful having to browse through countless third party apps on the Play Store just to find a remote that works. Plex has an official app that's clearly branded as such. Plus having one library for all the devices around the place is great. XBMC doesn't seem to do that as far as I can see.

Re: OpenELEC 5.0

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Post by Nux »

johnchristopher wrote: post #19
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).

The price to pay for having an awesome, stable, but specialised distro. It is indeed significantly harder to add new software to an OpenElec installation ...

Re: OpenELEC 5.0

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Post by bduerst »

jpierre wrote: post #29
bduerst wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is tangental, but is there a place online that aggregates all of these smaller boxes or boards? For example, if I'm looking for something more powerful than a Raspberry Pi / Arduino / Beagle, etc. but not quite the level of an i3, where would I look?

There are a few sites that deal with single-board computer news like: http://armdevices.net http://liliputing.com http://linuxgizmos.com Quickly, you might take a look at the ODROID boards, they nicely cover the lower price and performance spectrum and do a nice job supporting them: http://www.hardkernel.com/main/main.php

This is exactly what I'm looking for, thank you!
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