2014-03-21, 19:43
(2014-03-20, 06:18)funtasticguy Wrote:(2014-03-20, 05:26)spcano01 Wrote: You can run linux, but I have to say I'm more of an android kinda guy. They have SD cards and eMMC cards preinstalled with latest builds. U3 is being tested with 4.4, and has CM running on it. The XU has 4.2.2, and is what I have mostly. Android builds are great, been running nightlies until Beta 1/2 came out. Only used rPi, hated it. Too slow, not wife friendly in that it corrupted the SD card all of the time so I had to keep f'ing with it. Plus, very slow...U3 is $20/more, and it flies -no tweaking RSS feeds or thumbnails needed. Besides that, only used my laptops of varying speeds/builds and an older Acer nettop with OpenElec. End of day, I'm an android fan and use it as a 2nd desktop with Chrome Beta, Office, etc.
Based upon this information, I'm looking into buying a U3 running Android. I have a couple of questions. If you plug a USB drive into the U3, can it read NTFS hard drives (where my movies would be stored)? Secondly, can you install Android apps on the SD card (assuming you have an eMMC card already installed running the OS)?
Thanks for your input.
Not sure, I'll reformat a USB drive and tell ya in a bit. I have mine streaming via NFS from a Synology NAS personally. ABsolutely you can install Android apps on it, but you need to find the GAPPS one-click and run that first. Then, sign in and off to the races you go! Feel free to find me on those forums when you get it up and running. Rest of hte people there are very helpful too!!!
(2014-03-19, 06:16)kily69 Wrote: Hello ... looking for a stick that read well the movies at 1080p, good wi fi and that works well XMBC.
So many do not even know which one to choose. Mk809III is a good choice??
What to advise a price of 45 €.
cumps
U3 Community Edition - 59+5.50+4+SDCard/EMMC.
(2014-03-20, 16:43)Reframer Wrote: I have this one. http://tinyurl.com/n9tntj8
Nice unit but crashes on Gotham and the 1080 movies are buggy.
The price is good but I would stay away.
I am looking for another one.
Does anyone know of a good quad core under $150.00?
I would say the processor may be to slow for Gotham. I understand the is quad but the processor is at 1.5 GHz
Minimum Req. - When software decoding of a Full HD 1080p high-definition video is performed by the system CPU, a dual-core 2 GHz or better CPU is required in order to allow for perfectly smooth playback without dropping frames or giving playback a jerky appearance. XBMC can however offload most of the video decoding process onto GPU graphics hardware controller that supports one of the following types of hardware-accelerated video decoding: Intel's VAAPI, Nvidia's VDPAU, AMD's XvBA, Microsoft's DXVA, Apple's VDADecoder/VideoToolBox, OpenMAX, and Broadcom Crystal HD Enhanced Media Accelerator. By taking advantage of such hardware-accelerated video decoding, XBMC can run well on most inexpensive, low-power systems which contain a modern GPU.
XU-Lite = 159+16 *eMMC*
That's an 8-core, a it overkill for XBMC only. But runs emulations very well!! Been running XBMC Frodo/Gotham, and now that it's HW Decoded, runs flat out.