[aoaaron]

Hi, I've bought a panasonic 902b and could do with a box to run kodi on again which is a bit more mobile. I have a gaming rig which will usually playback content but would like a nice tidy mobile solution until i get my setup properly sorted.

Whats a cheap 1080k bluray high bitrate (I'm talking 30gb rips or Bluray ISOs) from an external hard-drive which u guys could reccomend?



I do have a macbook pro, I am tempted to just hook this up to the TV for now but its quite unintuitive remote wise and the wires make it all quite messy.

Thanks,

[noggin]

Raspberry Pi 3 will do that nicely (if you have any VC-1 rips you'll need the VC-1 licence key which is GBP£1.20). As will an ODroid C2. Both running LibreElec.

Both support CEC remote control (i.e. use your TV remote to control Kodi). Pi 3 has integrated WiFi so you can use a smartphone remote app too. Otherwise a cheap RF USB keyboard or RC6 remote (ODroid has built in IR receiver so can be persuaded to work with most remotes, Pi will need a suitable USB or GPIO receiver)

Pi 3 is 1080p max. ODroid is 2160/60p capable and will do HEVC better than Pi.

[wrxtasy]

I'm not even going to go into detail, just link to what has already been written for 1080p/4K HEVC (H265) HDMI 2.0 capable boxes:

AMLogic S905(x) - LibreELEC / OSMC - Kodi Krypton - 4K Options