Posts: 3
Joined: Jan 2014
Reputation:
0
Anyone used the NUC i3 or i5 for full HD 3D? any thoughts?
- Sindre
Posts: 19,982
Joined: May 2009
Reputation:
451
nickr
Retired Team-Kodi Member
Posts: 19,982
What EXACTLY are you asking?
MVC?
SBS/OU?
If I have helped you or increased your knowledge, click the 'thumbs up' button to give thanks :) (People with less than 20 posts won't see the "thumbs up" button.)
Posts: 3
Joined: Jan 2014
Reputation:
0
for the NUC to be able to "handle" HD 3D movies. Graphics card good enough for veiwing 3D, 4K movies
Posts: 387
Joined: Dec 2011
Reputation:
5
2014-01-10, 15:45
(This post was last modified: 2014-01-10, 15:46 by tutu.)
The version of ffmpeg included with XBMC doesn't support h.265 yet. There is also no hardware acceleration in any available PC APU or GPU for that matter. It will come in time. But it's like every device comes out, there is always something better coming in a few months time..
This device runs very well, it's silent when watching movies (at 20% min fan speed). It's tiny. It does 23.976 Hz properly.
It's too expensive, but that's about it.
Posts: 186
Joined: Jun 2013
Reputation:
2
micoba
Senior Member
Posts: 186
I just bought a new USB 3.0 Stick to be able to boot Openelec if I wanted. Now the problem is, I already tried this with 3 (!!!) other 3.0 Sticks, that either weren't recognised on startup or gave me this prompt:
error in mount flash: mount common: could not mount LABEL=System
starting debuging shell... type exit to quit
sh:can't access tty: job control turned off
#
If the bootup worked, I had no problem while running Openelec. It seems to be something either with the openelec startup process or the nuc having issues to detect the booting stick. I never had problems with the installed msata SSD.
Haswell Nuc i5 - Abel H2 case - 8GB RAM (Crucial) - Samsung 830 128GB SSD - Win 8.1 - XBMC 13 Beta 1 - Aeon MQ 5 - Harmony 600
Dreambox 7020HD - Sundtek DVB-S2 + C
Posts: 1,741
Joined: Jul 2006
Reputation:
4
Use a USB 2.0 stick, it'll boot fine. I see no slowdowns other than boot with a 2.0 stick and support for USB 3 is likely what's causing your boot issues.
Not concerned about h.265. As already stated that has no real support right now from anything so it's not even on my radar, for that matter neither is 4K as I'm not interested in replacing all of my displays (again) anytime soon. If I waited for the perfect device I'd always have some other new shiny causing me to wait and never buy anything. This little box works well, if the cost is a killer buy a Pivos for less and be happy - just don't expect the same performance from something 4x less expensive...
Posts: 156
Joined: Jan 2011
Reputation:
1
d_hero
Senior Member
Posts: 156
Im having an audio problem with my install. Im running latest openelec 4 nightly. The system runs but but im getting bad sound over HDMI. Clipping on high frequencies and terrible dialog reproduction. I thought it was a problem with my AV Receiver but ive tried 3 other sources and they are fine, its just the NUC. This happens on Dolby Digital, Stereo, anything it seems. Any ideas? Ive tried playing with all the audio settings but no change