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I am waiting for one to come in to play with, but it has USB Ports, so even if it doesn't include an IR sensor, any USB IR sensor should work just fine. I don't see any reason it won't run OpenElec, it is an x86 based system. As far as what chip is in there for the graphics, I would totally guess Intel HD 4000. But I don't know for sure.
As far as one of the other NUC options, I feel they all should perform pretty much the same, some of the i3 and i5 NUC's obviously doing more. But by the time you add RAM and Hard Drive, I don't see how you can beat the price. Plus Keyboard/Remote!
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2014-01-15, 10:58
(This post was last modified: 2014-01-15, 11:00 by JesusOnEez.)
I have a USB IR Sensor hooked up via USB. The rather bog standard remote detects as a HID wireless keyboard/mouse and 90% functions work out of the box with XBMC. So all the navigation options work, plus it has a mouse controller and right/left click buttons. Play/Stop/Pause/FF/RW all work a treat. There are a couple of other buttons that I keep thinking I should map (right click context menu for example) but I tend to use the mouse functions of the remote instead so it's not a priority.
I think the one I have has Intel HD 3000 but I wouldn't swear to it. I have a first generation device.
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Hi people, ive just bought the Lenovo Q190 as a fist HTPC, i bought the Celeron 1017U version with FreeDos. Ive installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and am now in the process of finding and installing drivers. Ive searched the internet to find the right Intel HD driver for my system and installed it but just doesn't right, the image quality is just not HD! Does anyone know which driver i need? Thanks
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Picture and video quality is poor. I tried an intel driver analyzer yesterday and said it was upto date, but didnt exactly say it was the right one
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The picture is just grainy, like watching standard definition tv programmes even with hi res video files.
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2014-01-28, 23:37
(This post was last modified: 2014-01-29, 00:26 by timantheos.)
Good afternoon. I have a question about a home setup I just put in place. I'm running the following:
1. Lenovo Q190 running Windows 8.1 / XBMC Frodo connected to a ASUS RT-AC68U router by wired Gigabit Ethernet. Very little software installed...A/V and a couple media related apps like VLC.
2. Synology 4-disk NAS (DS4xxx series that's a couple years old). The NAS is set up in RAID 5 with 4 disks and is also connected by Ethernet cable to the ASUS router.
I'm storing my media on the NAS and have a share mapped to the appropriate folders to the Q190. I have a directory set up for TV and another for movies. So far everything looks and sounds great if it's 720p. A couple things which are 1080p are ok, but only with files around 3-4 GB in size, max.
I have quite a bit of ripped/compressed 1080p blu-rays which are in the 7-10 GB size and they heavily freeze/stutter if I try to play them back. I haven't yet copied them locally to the Q190 to try that, but even if it does work it won't be a workable solution for me. Should the Q190 be capable of handling this scenario and/or is it possibly a network bottleneck? I've read a few threads and played with some XBMC settings, but so far with no luck.
Just looking for thoughts or suggestions about how to optimize this.
Thanks.
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2014-01-29, 10:51
(This post was last modified: 2014-01-29, 10:53 by JesusOnEez.)
Agree. I have pretty much the same set-up (albeit a DS2xxx JBOD setup with only a 10/100 switch). Everything up to 720p plays fine, but I have to switch on DXVA2 for smooth playback of 1080p files of around 7 to 11+ GB.
The only other difference I can see is that I don't have drives mapped on the Q190, I use SMB shares from XBMC to talk to the NAS. Whether this makes a difference or not is another question. Finally, a simple check. Can you swap the network cable from the Q190 to the router to check it's not a faulty cable?
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2014-02-08, 19:20
(This post was last modified: 2014-02-08, 19:20 by polly.)
Can someone tell me what are the video audio configuration of this q190 windows 8.1 model? I read over this post but skipping through pages. Can't find it. I know it was somewhere here a screenshot showing best setup for audio/video to configure in xbmc using a hdmi cable.
Thanks