[furii]

So apparently Windows doesn't do well with NFS, but I should have known that. I switched to SMB and a hardwire link and it's definitely more tolerable and actually plays all my files, but still takes a good 10-20 seconds to begin playing them. Sometimes 30 seconds. This is on an unsaturated 1Gbps link. The Boxee plays the same movie wirelessly (N) in less than 5 seconds. It's weird too because sometimes I'll play a movie and it will insta-play on XBMC. Sometimes I'll play the same movie later and it will take the standard 10-30 seconds to start. VLC plays the same movie immediately. Once it starts playing it plays fine.

Is this a NUC issue, an XBMC issue, or a user issue?

sounds like whatever you're trying to play is on a spun down server. does it take as long to start if you stop the movie and restart it?

[mushoss]

I just purchased an i3 NUC Haswell from Newegg (through ebay) for $256.49. Newegg had it for $284.89. Ebay had sent me a 10% off coupon for purchases through their mobile app. It was good through today so I pulled the trigger. Now I need to nail down which RAM to purchase, thinking of going with Crucial 8 gb. Will this work http://www.ebay.com/itm/251336690182 Also need to get a wi-fi / blue tooth any recommendations on that.

4GB 204-Pin SoDIMM DDR3 PC3-12800 • CL=11 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR3-1600 • 1.35V • 512Mx64 • 2Rx8

ram is ok

which RAM to purchase, thinking of going with Crucial 8 gb.

8Gb is overkill. You could just get a 4Gb stick and save $40. As someone already pointed out, make sure it is 1.35V . Sometimes it says DDR3L (L means low voltage).

I am confused someone please help. I am being told 4gb of ram is enough, get 1.35v etc. But when I search it comes up with single sticks at 4 gb, or 2 sticks at 2 gb. Could someone please give me a link to the crucial 4gb RAM that i can use, preferably on ebay.

[Clack]

Single 4 is fine.

[aesalazar]

I am confused someone please help. I am being told 4gb of ram is enough, get 1.35v etc. But when I search it comes up with single sticks at 4 gb, or 2 sticks at 2 gb. Could someone please give me a link to the crucial 4gb RAM that i can use, preferably on ebay.

I put 2 of these in mine:

http://www.rakuten.com/prod/crucial-4gb-...75933.html

[un1versal]

I just purchased an i3 NUC Haswell from Newegg (through ebay) for $256.49. Newegg had it for $284.89. Ebay had sent me a 10% off coupon for purchases through their mobile app. It was good through today so I pulled the trigger. Now I need to nail down which RAM to purchase, thinking of going with Crucial 8 gb. Will this work http://www.ebay.com/itm/251336690182 Also need to get a wi-fi / blue tooth any recommendations on that.

4GB 204-Pin SoDIMM DDR3 PC3-12800 • CL=11 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR3-1600 • 1.35V • 512Mx64 • 2Rx8

ram is ok

which RAM to purchase, thinking of going with Crucial 8 gb.

8Gb is overkill. You could just get a 4Gb stick and save $40. As someone already pointed out, make sure it is 1.35V . Sometimes it says DDR3L (L means low voltage).

I am confused someone please help. I am being told 4gb of ram is enough, get 1.35v etc. But when I search it comes up with single sticks at 4 gb, or 2 sticks at 2 gb. Could someone please give me a link to the crucial 4gb RAM that i can use, preferably on ebay.

The single 8GB stick may be overkill, but at that price it wont hurt buying specially 1600Mhz memory at CL9, 1.35v, whenever I buy ram I buy direct from crucial.com or co.uk (as Micron parent company) manufactures the ram chips themselves. and I always double check with their memory configuration/checker just for curiosity on what they offer as alternatives and to ensure I dindt boob it up.

Today your use as HTPC only may be a everyday PC tomorrow, whenever there's new toys and you upgrade so 8GB may be a future proofing and wise idea.

[zag]

You need less than 1gb of RAM to run OpenELEC.

Also don't forget, using 2 sticks of RAM will also draw more power.

[gamble]

gamble did you check if HD audio is working for you if you set 23.98 refresh in GUI? Works every time here, I think there's some bug triggered if you're on 60Hz and XBMC changes refresh before playing the movie.

Been playing a while on the stable version to get a clue how the sound problem triggers, for me it is if i enable "Autom. FPS detection" in
the Video Settings, when i turn it OFF and reboot it sound works again.
I am uploading some more Movies and will maybe later try to flash my "stable" build up to R19398 where i can enable Multithreading and limited RGB...if that works i think im gonna wait a bit longer till it really runs like it should..


U should try that too.

[lmyllari]

gamble did you check if HD audio is working for you if you set 23.98 refresh in GUI? Works every time here, I think there's some bug triggered if you're on 60Hz and XBMC changes refresh before playing the movie.

I think you're onto something.

I set my GUI to 60Hz and disabled mode switching to avoid any switches, and HD audio seems stable.


edit: still something weird - 5.1ch PCM gets sent as 7.1 to the receiver. If I set xbmc to 5.1 output, I get crackling output.

edit2: 23.976 works too. I can actually start the playback, go to settings and switch refresh rates and the audio keeps playing fine after the mode is switched. Maybe it is a timing issue opening audio while switching modes.

[merlinn31]

So apparently Windows doesn't do well with NFS, but I should have known that. I switched to SMB and a hardwire link and it's definitely more tolerable and actually plays all my files, but still takes a good 10-20 seconds to begin playing them. Sometimes 30 seconds. This is on an unsaturated 1Gbps link. The Boxee plays the same movie wirelessly (N) in less than 5 seconds. It's weird too because sometimes I'll play a movie and it will insta-play on XBMC. Sometimes I'll play the same movie later and it will take the standard 10-30 seconds to start. VLC plays the same movie immediately. Once it starts playing it plays fine.

Is this a NUC issue, an XBMC issue, or a user issue?

sounds like whatever you're trying to play is on a spun down server. does it take as long to start if you stop the movie and restart it?

Ended up being a library issue. After switching from NFS to SMB and deleting 10 or so movies that XBMC couldn't pull codec info on, movies start instantly now.

I also had issues in Windows where the wireless card would work for a while and then kick me off, then when I tried to reconnect the driver would crash and I couldn't connect to any wireless again without restarting. The fix for this was to turn off power saving in the bios.

[gamble]

gamble did you check if HD audio is working for you if you set 23.98 refresh in GUI? Works every time here, I think there's some bug triggered if you're on 60Hz and XBMC changes refresh before playing the movie.

I think you're onto something.

I set my GUI to 60Hz and disabled mode switching to avoid any switches, and HD audio seems stable.


edit: still something weird - 5.1ch PCM gets sent as 7.1 to the receiver. If I set xbmc to 5.1 output, I get crackling output.

Yeah, what i am seeing, my GUI is also set to 60Hz and i disabled the "Mode switching" (sorry i didn't knew the exact. engl. Word)
Audio is on 7.1 and passthrough with all Options on (DTS-HD, DD ...), this way everything works so far, just colors are off and disabling VA-AVI
without Multithreading gets too slow sometimes..

Another build? In addition to the one in my post above?

sry didnt see u already posted, will try later !

edit2: 23.976 works too. I can actually start the playback, go to settings and switch refresh rates and the audio keeps playing fine after the mode is switched. Maybe it is a timing issue opening audio while switching modes.

Try rebooting after u set the Switch refresh rates to automatic, if i do so i Encounter loosing Sound again...at least with the stable 3.2.3..

[arokh]

Wasn't there someone here who didn't have this issue? What kind of AVR do you have and which output are you using? HDMI/DP

[Alchete]

Wasn't there someone here who didn't have this issue? What kind of AVR do you have and which output are you using? HDMI/DP

I think I was the one. I'm not getting any audio issues when playing different test HD audio clips (I still haven't had time to watch a movie).

- I have all HD audio all set "passthrough".
- 5.1 speaker configuration.
- I haven't touched any refresh rate settings.

I'm running the Nov. 20 daily build, with VA-API disabled, Frame Multithreading enabled.

My equipment is in my signature.

You folks with the audio issues, are you all on the PAL standard? Just curious. I'm NTSC.

[Ravetrancer]

I did some patching based on the recent developments. You can see my work at https://github.com/laurimyllari/OpenELEC...-on-master

I took the VA-API colorspace fixes from staging. This should fix both SD and HD colorspace issues. I've only tried HD, but that seems good. I'll need to find some SD test material.

I made a small patch to kernel based on Ville's advice to fix the black levels in limited range output. I also implemented a pass-through mode for use with sw decoding and 16:235 range in xbmc.

These should fix the grey blacks and inaccurate colors. There are three ways to configure:

1) GPU scaled limited range output: This is the default setting when connected to a TV. There is no need for any settings - remove xrandr from Autostart.sh to use this.

2) Full range output: This is the default when connected to a computer monitor. This can also be forced with the xrandr setting in Autostart.sh.

Image should look identical between #1 and #2. If the screen supports switching RGB input ranges, both should be signaled automatically - otherwise #2 is used. Leave everything at default and things should work right automatically.

There is another way for better quality:

3) Direct limited range output: This allow for BtB, WtW and avoids banding. Software decoding needs to be used (VA-API output is first clipped and scaled to full range). Configure xbmc for 16-235 output and no hardware decoding. Use xrandr to set "Broadcast RGB" to "Video 16:235 pass-through" (this allows full range output, but tells the screen content is limited range)


There is a build based on recent OE master (with Gotham) at https://www.dropbox.com/s/s4cqdn8vh324cp...r16417.tar

If you still see black level problems with this build, please post numbers and details ( you can follow instructions at http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1555766 )

the dropbox link doesnt work

[tehbrd]

I did some patching based on the recent developments. You can see my work at https://github.com/laurimyllari/OpenELEC...-on-master

I took the VA-API colorspace fixes from staging. This should fix both SD and HD colorspace issues. I've only tried HD, but that seems good. I'll need to find some SD test material.

I made a small patch to kernel based on Ville's advice to fix the black levels in limited range output. I also implemented a pass-through mode for use with sw decoding and 16:235 range in xbmc.

These should fix the grey blacks and inaccurate colors. There are three ways to configure:

1) GPU scaled limited range output: This is the default setting when connected to a TV. There is no need for any settings - remove xrandr from Autostart.sh to use this.

2) Full range output: This is the default when connected to a computer monitor. This can also be forced with the xrandr setting in Autostart.sh.

Image should look identical between #1 and #2. If the screen supports switching RGB input ranges, both should be signaled automatically - otherwise #2 is used. Leave everything at default and things should work right automatically.

There is another way for better quality:

3) Direct limited range output: This allow for BtB, WtW and avoids banding. Software decoding needs to be used (VA-API output is first clipped and scaled to full range). Configure xbmc for 16-235 output and no hardware decoding. Use xrandr to set "Broadcast RGB" to "Video 16:235 pass-through" (this allows full range output, but tells the screen content is limited range)


There is a build based on recent OE master (with Gotham) at https://www.dropbox.com/s/s4cqdn8vh324cp...r16417.tar

If you still see black level problems with this build, please post numbers and details ( you can follow instructions at http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1555766 )

the dropbox link doesnt work

Link working fine atm.

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I am confused someone please help. I am being told 4gb of ram is enough, get 1.35v etc. But when I search it comes up with single sticks at 4 gb, or 2 sticks at 2 gb. Could someone please give me a link to the crucial 4gb RAM that i can use, preferably on ebay.

I put 2 of these in mine:

http://www.rakuten.com/prod/crucial-4gb-...75933.html

Intel publish all the tested memory on this page for future reference;

http://www.intel.com/support/motherboard...034378.htm

[xelloss12]

I'm looking into buying a NUC to use for an htpc to play hi10p anime. My bitrate goes up as high as 33 Mbps at times. Would the i3-4010U in the BOXD34010WYK1 be able to play it flawlessly, or should I go with the i5-4250U in the D54250WYK?