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There are so many devices to run koi that i'm having trouble picking one.
I have ran XMBC on my Raspberry PiB for about 10 months. I have nothing but trouble with the pi, which has stopped working again at the moment. I regularly have trouble with the SD cards and the power supply. The software crashes a lot, i have to reset it over and over again to get it working and it takes hours to get any media on.
I want to watch films ( a week) and stream sport, again perhaps a game per week. I really just want something more reliable and faster to load.
I tried to buy an Amazon Fore stick from Argos today but they are sold out. I'm not sure if a Fire TV box would be better (hard wired)? I can also see that Roku3 and Chromecasts, as well as nexus boxes etc are all popular.
Any advice?
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2015-09-02, 16:28
(This post was last modified: 2015-09-02, 16:32 by ianuk2005.)
I use mine daily and found any android based solution is generally a let down. I have a fire tv stick as a secondary device, it's not bad for the money but sluggish and can randomly exit sometimes (possibly run out of ram). I had a chromecast and found it to be generally a pain send streams to it from an android phone, sometimes codecs not being supported, streams stopping halfway through and general annoyances trying to actually send it from a phone.
By comparison running kodi on my windows laptop or HTPC it's really smooth even with a large library, heavy skins and live TV epg. Windows isn't without it's own issues though, mainly generic windows issues interfering with kodi usage.
I'm also getting a new device as well and I've narrowed it down to three which seem suitable:
-Chromebox, seem great all rounders in performance, size and OS options, £149.99-£200 ish
-Acer revo r85L, similar to chromeboxes but an odd shape, comes with a remote, slightly better specs, free windows, remote, HDD space and only £129.99
-Wetek, runs openelec or android, will be more sluggish due to cpu/gpu and not as mature platform, comes with tuners built in though and only £75 ish
I think personally I'm going to get the revo as my main box for good performance with openelec for stability. I'm going to get a wetek just for the DVB-S2 tuners and use it as TV backend for my main box and fire tv stick.
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Hate to say it, but my smoothest run of xbmc/kodi is on my Windows 10 box. I have ran into zero issues from kodI or windows that relate to each other. The output is pushed to my TV with an HDMI cable from the video card.
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2015-09-04, 10:21
(This post was last modified: 2015-09-04, 10:28 by mcdull.)
I think the Intel Braswell is promising with hardware HEVC and 4K support.
Just upgraded my setup to Windows 10 with ASRock N3700-ITX (US$120), played x265 1080p videos without any issues.
And I use the same HTPC for some PC games (old school, emulators or new), NAS and anything a computer can do.
For lower cost, the Celeron N3150 should play video just fine, US$90 for all-in-one motherboard, get a 64GB SSD, 2x2GB memory (must use dual memory) and a case, total should come under US$200.
Might also find an old cheap retail Windows 7 and get Windows 10 for free.
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Could someone please suggest the best kodi hardware to connect to my TV?
I would like a device which can passthrough dts hd to my amp and be controlled by just a remote.
I'm happy to use a keyboard or mouse to configure kodi and addons but once setup would prefer just to use a standard remote.