Choosing between Chromebox and Nuc D3401​0WYK
#16
Intersting doom9 thread, you can spend far too much time reading thread son there...

My bedtime now.
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#17
OK... Great.. So 1080p and HD audio is possible on the chromebox..
Even 7.1?
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#18
tested the placebo file with a haswell i3 4150.
no dropped frames, but cpu stuck around 80/90%

BHH
HDConvertToX, AutoMKV, AutoMen author
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#19
(2014-11-22, 11:35)wackid Wrote: OK... Great.. So 1080p and HD audio is possible on the chromebox..
Even 7.1?

if it supports HD audio, then it supports 7.1 by extension.
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#20
(2014-11-22, 19:24)Matt Devo Wrote:
(2014-11-22, 11:35)wackid Wrote: OK... Great.. So 1080p and HD audio is possible on the chromebox..
Even 7.1?

if it supports HD audio, then it supports 7.1 by extension.
Great!!! HP chromebox is on its way.... Thanks.
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#21
Im using an Asus Chromebox, and it plays everything flawlessly. Amazing stuff. Very little setting changes needed. Add OpenElec, and you're done.
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#22
(2014-11-24, 01:31)McButton Wrote: Im using an Asus Chromebox, and it plays everything flawlessly. Amazing stuff. Very little setting changes needed. Add OpenElec, and you're done.

So it can play H.265 with 1080p MKV's / MP4's and play Xvid and DivX AVI's with no problems?
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#23
(2015-04-27, 01:25)theplunger Wrote:
(2014-11-24, 01:31)McButton Wrote: Im using an Asus Chromebox, and it plays everything flawlessly. Amazing stuff. Very little setting changes needed. Add OpenElec, and you're done.

So it can play H.265 with 1080p MKV's / MP4's and play Xvid and DivX AVI's with no problems?

Perhaps you didn't think to read http://kodi.wiki/view/Chromebox
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#24
My issue is I get different answers to my questions. The wiki said the following about H.265.

" H.265/HEVC is software (CPU) decoded, so playback is limited to 1080p and low/moderate bit-rates. From a purely Kodi/media playback standpoint, there's no advantage to the Core i3/i7 models over the Celeron model (outside of 2160p60 video playback, which the i3/i7's HD4400 GPU can handle), or to upgrading the RAM or SSD."

Now I don't speak very well in this tech language; but, I think it's saying YES the box can play 1080p and lower Hevc files. It seems to be saying not to waste money on the i3 or i7 boxes nor to upgrade ram or HDD. The cheap box will do fine.

Short of a NUC or a full blown computer I still can't find a turn key box solution that doesn't have fine print when it comes to HEVC.
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#25
(2015-04-27, 02:01)theplunger Wrote: Short of a NUC or a full blown computer I still can't find a turn key box solution that doesn't have fine print when it comes to HEVC.

Probably because HEVC is a new codec, and still not in use by many official content providers yet. So far it only seems to be in use for UHD test broadcasts and less-than-official internet distributed content, plus possibly some online streaming services (Netflix?) that are effectively closed ecosystems?

Intel released CPU+GPU driver support for Core i3-i7 stuff under Windows (not sure about Linux) for Haswell (8 bit only) and Broadwell (8 and 10 bit) but I don't think this extended to Celerons (or Pentiums) in either family.

The only HEVC content I have at the moment is 2160/60p and 2160/50p off-air UHD test transmission stuff, everything else I have is H264, VC-1 or MPEG2. The Chromebox plays all of this, apart from interlaced VC-1 (Intel GPU bug in Linux AIUI) and 4:2:2 H264 (but that is rare and not generally available to the public)
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(2015-04-27, 01:25)theplunger Wrote:
(2014-11-24, 01:31)McButton Wrote: Im using an Asus Chromebox, and it plays everything flawlessly. Amazing stuff. Very little setting changes needed. Add OpenElec, and you're done.

So it can play H.265 with 1080p MKV's / MP4's and play Xvid and DivX AVI's with no problems?

It can't play all H.265 files without issues.

(2015-04-27, 02:01)theplunger Wrote: My issue is I get different answers to my questions. The wiki said the following about H.265.

" H.265/HEVC is software (CPU) decoded, so playback is limited to 1080p and low/moderate bit-rates. [...]"

That is exactly accurate. It won't play higher res than 1080P, and it does not play anything too high bitrate either.
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