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If you're just running OpenElec, the extra RAM basically won't do anything. Everyone thinks it will magically boost performance, but it simply doesn't need it. Not sure if Chrome OS could make use of it? Windows of course is a RAM hog. :-)
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2GB is definitely plenty for OpenELEC
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Agreed.
Waste of Money all this extra storage and RAM just to stream.
As an example OpenELEC on my Raspberry Pi runs well with 512MB of RAM and an 8GB MicroSD card. Kodi reports 240Mb of RAM free. OpenELEC has a very low system footprint.
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Fine then, I will buy you all beers with this money burning a hole in my pocket!
Thanks again for the help.
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Sorry I know a bit off-topic and maybe it is not Chromebox specific but does this build that Matt has created with OpenELEC have support for OpenVPN or SOCK5 connections... ideally would like to send to a SOCKS5 proxy (with authentication) so don't have a huge overhead that I would forsee with VPN. Can it be added by the user or into the build? That is can you add packages manually? I came across a program called Redsocks that can encapsulate TCP and UDP traffic and send over to a SOCKS5 server.
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The ChromeBox no longer uses a special OE build, it uses the mainline 'Generic x86_64' builds now.
unsure about your VPN/SOCKS5 question, that's one for the OE devs. OE does have some limited VPN support currently but not sure that's going to stay in future builds
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that's not a problem I can replicate here with OE 5.0.0 and the current standalone firmware (20150107), either on a wired or wireless connection
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2015-01-29, 04:38
(This post was last modified: 2015-01-29, 04:39 by halcion1.)
hmmm...seems to be quite consistent on mine. I'll just leave it runnnng and dimmed for now; wife gets annoyed when it suspends and the network hangs. Setting it to static from DHCP seemed to help, but if I let it sit for any length of time it takes a while to reconnect. Any ideas are appreciated
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Just got CHROMEBOX-M118U. Installed Openelec with Coreboot. Everything is running fine, but fan noise is quite loud. I can hear it clearly from 3m. Temperatures rise over 60 when watching live-tv. It seems that the fan has only two modes, very quiet and quite noisy. How many modes there really are? I didn´t expect this machine to be noisy when just watching TV. Skin is Confluence, so it shouldn´t be too heavy either.
Odroid C2 running CoreElec
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What are your settings for deinterlacing etc?