2015-07-30, 02:01
Looking for suggestions on a Kodi capable box or two. Could care less about 4K but want something that can:
1) Handle h.265 encoded 720p/1080p files. (Should hardware decoding of h.265 be a must have feature I look at?)
2) Doesn't need to support 5.1 or any fancy sound gear.
3) Needs to have Bluetooth
4) Needs to support 802.11AC
5) Small, like a NUC
6) Quiet, like a NUC
7) Must be OpenElec/Windows friendly. Don't want anything Android related.
Guess I should just buy another NUC? My wife has a NUC5I3RYH that she uses as her main PC. When I played some h.265 files on it, this was the result
H.265 file 1 was 720p and on her i3 NUC, the CPU went up to about 15-20% and the video played back perfectly. The 2nd H.265 file had a .265 extension and wasn't seen by Kodi and when I tried playing it in VLC, VLC CPU usage jumped to about 80% but nothing happened, just a black screen. I tried the nightly build of VLC (3.0.0) and same result. Guess the .265 extension just isn't ready for Kodi/VLC!?
1) Handle h.265 encoded 720p/1080p files. (Should hardware decoding of h.265 be a must have feature I look at?)
2) Doesn't need to support 5.1 or any fancy sound gear.
3) Needs to have Bluetooth
4) Needs to support 802.11AC
5) Small, like a NUC
6) Quiet, like a NUC
7) Must be OpenElec/Windows friendly. Don't want anything Android related.
Guess I should just buy another NUC? My wife has a NUC5I3RYH that she uses as her main PC. When I played some h.265 files on it, this was the result
H.265 file 1 was 720p and on her i3 NUC, the CPU went up to about 15-20% and the video played back perfectly. The 2nd H.265 file had a .265 extension and wasn't seen by Kodi and when I tried playing it in VLC, VLC CPU usage jumped to about 80% but nothing happened, just a black screen. I tried the nightly build of VLC (3.0.0) and same result. Guess the .265 extension just isn't ready for Kodi/VLC!?