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2015-07-30, 02:01
(This post was last modified: 2015-07-30, 02:30 by gene0915.)
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!?
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.265 is not a valid extension seeing as its a codec and not a File container. AKA the extension should be something like .mkv or .mp4 or .avi it should never be .264 or .265.
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There are some encoding processes that produce .265 (or .264) files as part of the process, and those are usually raw video files, no audio so don't really need a container as such.
But yeah, the finished product usually includes audio, which requires a container, and should have a proper extension.
Windows is very focussed on the extension to identify file content. Linux and OSX less so. A linux media player like mplayer will pay a file, no matter what extension it has, as it probes the file to reveal what is inside instead of just stopping if it doesn't recognise the extension.
Kodi relies on extensions, and in doing so it doesn't have to probe every file ot see if it should be listing and scraping it. However I am pretty sure you could add .265 as an allowed extension somewhere in advancedsettings.xml.
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I am considering the zotac c5 with an Intel i5.