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Quote:It does have its niche; some people love it for media streaming features like XMBC, and there are a couple of enjoyable co-op games. It's also fairly good for emulating, but you can easily do that with just about anything else anyways.
This guy is dumb. Not only did he call it XMBC, but for the cost/power and ease of set up (especially if you want official support for things like Netflix, Hulu, etc, which are much more set-top-friendly on Android than they are on a desktop), the OUYA is fantastic deal. People are still buying basic media players for $100.
Enjoy your gbox when it catches on fire and no one supports your firmware anymore, ya twat.
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I've got a question hopefully someone here might be able to help out with. I've been using SPMC for about two weeks now I think (had my OUYA for about a month, LOVE it).
I noticed something strange recently. I'm using SPMC to access my Plex Media Server by the way (via the plexbmc plugin)...
Once I get towards the end of a movie, the video begins to slightly stutter. If I don't do anything, it gets progressively worse. The stutter is super quick, you almost don't even see it. But yeah, it just gets worse and more noticeable as you go.
I tried a few things to see if I could fix this such...
1) Pausing the movie and clearing the RAM on the Mac running the PMS (no change),
2) Pausing the film for a minute or two (no change),
3) Then I simply quit SPMC and restarted it - continued playing the movie and presto! Smooth as silk again.
I'm assuming SPMC is running out of RAM or something, is there anything I can do to fix this (other than quitting SPMC and restarting it)?
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I'm using mine purely as a low power library updater. Only issue I run into is that every 2-3 days it appears that the controllers need to be synced.
Interesting I do not use the controller as it autoboots into spmc then I use a remote. Anyone seen anything similar? More importantly anyone know how to disable this?
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Ouya + SPMC + Mele F10 Pro. Loving it! Can't wait for Gotham
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2013-12-13, 15:06
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-13, 15:07 by Twisk.)
Just a quick update on my previous post, I updated to the latest version of SPMC which allows audio passthrough (it's working perfectly)!
I watched three movies yesterday, never turned off SPMC, the stuttering never re-appeared!
...I'm guessing since SPMC doesn't have to deal with audio decoding now, well, that's what's freeing up the video (that's my non-technical explanation/guess).
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I use my Ouya with nightly build as a secondary unit in my bedroom.
If you dont need :
- CEC
- 24p
- HD audio passthrough
- mpeg2 HD deinterlacing
- a classic remote control
- wifi connection
- perfect silence (sometimes the fan is quite noisy)
That's perfect, i use ACE as a skin, with mysql library, SD liveTV, no judder/stutter (considering that it is 60Hz).
In summary, it's perfect if you use it for what it is, a secondary unit. If you want a home cinema , go like everybody with x86+nvidia+openelec, or anything else on windows.
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Thanks for the updates, i'm looking for something to move from my current players (mostly ATV2s) to something with a little more power, without investing in a few hundred $$$ machine (though I will want that for my primary setup eventually).
I was looking at a Pi, cheap celeron barebones, and up to NUCs (holding out for the bay trail one), and it does seem that this Ouya is promising, still lets me get netflix, and I see lots of ways to do some retro gaming. Might pick one up after the holidays at this rate.