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First off, thanks for this build. I was looking for a way to play my 3D ISOs for a while now and mistakenly found this thread from another site. I tried the most recent build on my Surface Pro 3 and it worked like a charm.
I have two quick questions:
Should audio always be coming out as LPCM? At first I thought that the Surface Pro 3 didn't support bit streaming, however, I recalled that when I tested Powerdvd my receiver did show dts hd-ma. That same movie in this build shows PCM. I tested various movies and they all show LPCM.
So am I doing anything wrong? Why would My receiver show DTS HD-MA with Power DVD and not this build?
Secondly, is it recommended not to change the skin for this build?
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Yes lots of stuttering stop and go on ISO and mkv 3D I had switch to win 10 enterprise lstb going back to win 10 pro to see if its the lstb version I will update has soon has I switch back. Was working fine with previous build
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chocco
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I've decided to pull the trigger today on either the NUC6I5SYK or NUC6I3SYK. It seems silly that I was umming and ahing about a lesser powered unit so I thought I'd take away all my kodi doubts by getting something that would be able to cope with everything easily. Of course it's not as simple as that in my world though, and I was hoping someone might know the answer to this off the top of their head. Does the difference between the 520 and 540 graphics on the i3 and i5 chip have ANY effect on the the PQ of blu rays? I ask because the benchmarks say that the 540 has 50% more colour gradations than the 520. Is this just benchmarking or does it actually translate into a real world difference in picture? I'm also wondering whether the i3 will have enough grunt to play the odd game. I promise this is my last question. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
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Recommended settings isnt visible anymore in first post
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Fixed. imgur has been acting up w/Kodi forum for a while now, and seems to be getting worse.
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chocco
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I've now bought the NUC6I5SYK for delivery on Monday, I decided against the Kaby Lake Brix as I would have to replace my whole rig to play stuff at 4K60FPS, so I'll leave that particular move for a time when I' have more cash. I don't watch Netflix or YouTube and I play the odd game that would benefit from the better graphics the 6th Gen has to offer. I'll get it set up and report back on the success of 3D.
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rantei
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I want to buy an HTPC/NUC for BD/3DBD and for better PQ, I need to use Kodi SPDIF audio passthrough and DTS to DD 5.1 audio transcoding as I'm doing now on my RPi3 with HiFiBerry+. What do you think of the Barebone Asus VIVO VM62?
Specification:
Intel Core i5 4210U
8GB DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 4400
HDD+SSD (1TB+128GB)
SPDIF out
Would you have any other advice? Thanks...
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Why does the screen go blank while playing a video and pressing 'c' for the context menu?