[Dougie Fresh]

A bit offtopic, but Gigabyte is not sleeping: http://www.gigabyte.com/MicroSite/342/im...odels.html

For xbmc, is there any difference between Intel® HD 4400 graphics (Brix) and HD 5000 (NUC) ?

I`m curious about this too....found this article which may help quantify the difference for you:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7072/intel...vs-hd-4400

The article says nothing about GPU accelerated video playback. Given the Intel HD in the Celeron 847 (2 generations ago) plays even high bit-rate 1080p video with under 20% CPU utilization, there will be no difference for video playback between HD4400, HD4600, HD5000 and HD5200.

[Acrobat76]

For xbmc, is there any difference between Intel® HD 4400 graphics (Brix) and HD 5000 (NUC) ?

I`m curious about this too....found this article which may help quantify the difference for you:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7072/intel...vs-hd-4400

The article says nothing about GPU accelerated video playback. Given the Intel HD in the Celeron 847 (2 generations ago) plays even high bit-rate 1080p video with under 20% CPU utilization, there will be no difference for video playback between HD4400, HD4600, HD5000 and HD5200.

I agree. I guess my wording was misleading, It simply compares general performance.

[DaveNinja]

I just upgraded my celeron NUC from Openelec on a USB 2.0 thumb drive to openelec on the SSD and its way faster. Library building/updating took minutes instead of hours. Aeon Nox menus were terribly slow when running off the thumb drive but totally fast now.
so, while the video files are played fine running off a thumb drive, the speed in menus is way better on SSD

[Gareth12]

DaveNinja. Can you tell me what the fan settings are in the bios.

Thanks

[maber23]

An integrated IR receiver, compatible with Windows Media Center remote controls, faces the front, boosting the NUC’s credentials as a front-room PC.

Read more: Intel’s tiny NUC gets a big upgrade | News | PC Pro http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/384160/intel...z2eeu85zAQ

From this web:

The new NUC will be available by Christmas

[DaveNinja]

DaveNinja. Can you tell me what the fan settings are in the bios.

Thanks

I'll try and remember to check tonight. I havent done anything with the bios, though, so it should be at factory settings

[Platypus2]

The new NUC will be available by Christmas

End of October still fits that :S

Bit weird that they haven't said anything regarding price/date at IDF yet though.

[Platypus2]

Exclusive: Intel to launch $139 Bay Trail NUCs in Q1 2014

So at least Haswell version has to be out between now and Q1 2014 ?

[aesalazar]

I just upgraded my celeron NUC from Openelec on a USB 2.0 thumb drive to openelec on the SSD and its way faster. Library building/updating took minutes instead of hours. Aeon Nox menus were terribly slow when running off the thumb drive but totally fast now.
so, while the video files are played fine running off a thumb drive, the speed in menus is way better on SSD

Dave, out of curiosity, what kind of thumb drive were you using? Ever do a speed test on it to get R/W speeds? I have no doubt the SSD is faster but I am always curious the impact on performance from the quality of the thumb drive.

Ernie

[Phr0z]

Hi,

I thought I should post this here as well as some of you might have experienced the same issue.

It's about Intel NUC/HD4000, brightness/gamma black levels on linux.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=173305

Hope someone has a solution.

[jayce996]

With regard to your picture problems. Have you tried the other HDMI port? What is your telly? Have you made sure it is set to exact scan? No zooms or overscan enabled.

Sounds like your TV episode problem is that you have too much detail in the file name before it reaches the seasonxepisode number. Try putting that at the front. Mine dont have the programmes name on it. Only the SxxExx and episode name detail after.

i'll try those two points :-)
thank you for these tips.

and for the ambiTV, i found this where you "just" have to plug an USB cable on the NUC. i'll continue to digg and keep you posted on that.

I tried the other HDMI output and the screen is fitting correctly ! does it means that there is an issue with the first output?
regarding my series naming, the naming SxxExx - Episode Name.mkv seems to resolve the issue.

one other thing i'm facing that is not very pleasant with this "powerful" system (and that i didn't have with the Rapberry Pi) is that once or twice in a movie, there is a moment where the movie is accelerating with no sound for half a second or a second max, this is quite annoying and i don't know which parameter needs to be changed in order to resolve this.

any tips on this one?

[micoba]

I think I had the same issue with Openelec 3.0.6. With 3.1.7 there were no issues with black level anymore. Try it!

[jayce996]

and Openelec 3.1.7 is stable enough? it is still a beta version right?

[Phr0z]

I think I had the same issue with Openelec 3.0.6. With 3.1.7 there were no issues with black level anymore. Try it!

Hey, I tried 3.1.7 booting from a usb in Live mode yesterday and it had the same issue with black level.

[smallclone]

Before I take the plunge on a NUC Celeron 847 1.1 and some RAM, someone please just reassure me that the performance on 1080p mkvs and 720p mkvs will be £100 better than my rPi

Thanks.