[quintixbox]

Hi,

I've been testing Linux Mint 16 with xbmc on mu NUC i5 for the last couple of days, here's my findings till now:

Current setup:
- NUC i5, 8GB RAM, Intel SSD
- Linux Mint 16 64bit & Openelec Nighlies (dualboot)
- xbmc 13 alpha 10 from the unstable xbmc repository on Linux Mint
- Installed as described in my previous post: #1054

What works:
- Navigation, library updates, most add-ons are fast and responsive
- Audio playback of regular" lossless audio, DTS HD (passthrough), Dolby HD (passthrough)
- All video files I tried, with both Vaapi acceleration and software playback
- IR remote working perfectly
- Switching ON and OFF with the IR remote
- LCD display through lcdproc

What does NOT work:
- 5.1 flac files are garbled (needs further investigation)

Notes on video quality:
- Seing as Linux Mint currently uses "old" Intel drivers and does not have an optimized Kernel and other fixes like lmyllari's great OpenELEC builds or the latest Openelec Nightlies (also thanks to lmyllari and the rest op OpenELEC's great team) the colorspace is a bit off, for now. Twiddling with xrandr I got the blacks the way I like them and good contrast with vibrant colors on my Plasma TV.

Let me know if you need further clarification or help with setting up your NUC.

Regards,
Q

I'll be loading a full desktop of Mint on the i5 following the posts from Quintixbox since he bothered to read the instructions I breezed over <ahem>. Should be fun and if folks are interested I can probably do back to back power testing if desired.

I'm leaning towards a full Linux distro rather than Openelec, but I'm concerned about image quality issues. I'd love to hear your views about that when you get things running. I'll be starting from zero knowledge anyway when the time comes.