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I am hoping for an ASUS E1-1200 with 6 x SATA to replace the ASUS C60M1-I. Those were inexpensive, low power, super-nice mini-ITX server motherboards.
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The main draw of Kabini is low power usage, low price, and decent gpu. The gpu is irrelevant for HTPC use as current gpu's are more than capable enough. Kabini is still slower than a Core 2 from 4 years ago, and slower than SB/IB Pentium, right?
The low price will be the big selling point, but we'll have to see how it matches up to Bay Trail which is also going to be cheaper.
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Yesterday I received my Zotac zbox. It's an amazing little box. Makes no noise at all so don't worry about that fan.
At the moment running Windows 8.1 and did some initial testing. XBMC runs butter-smooth. As I'm also interested in retroplayer and casual games, I've installed steam. Playing games (like Shank) in Big picture mode is just perfect with enough fps. Now I still need to hook it up to my receiver and TV in the living room. So far really happy since it only costed €209 (without HD/ram). Some shops even sell it for lower now.
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Also got my ZBOX AQ01. Except for playback in xbmc everything is smooth :-)
Hardware Acceleration is on, got latest Radeon drivers. Running on Windows 7.
Any idea why playback is choppy in xbmc? With other players (VLC, Mediaplayer) it is super smooth.
ANy special codec pack that I should or should not install?
System is the AQ01 with 4GB, Win7 64bit, 128SSD....
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Thanks!
I already checked "O" during playback and CPU is below 5%. So some acceleration is working, otherwise it would be higher, right? Maybe its the Audio settings (already changed it only Stereo) or maybe it because of using 24p? For the moment I will follow the steps you described once again...:-)
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2013-12-30, 10:56
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-30, 14:42 by moskito99.)
I was able to get closer to the problem.
It is playing smoothly when I do not adjust the framerate of the TV to the movie (24p). As soon as I switch 24p on, playback is choppy.
I already read some place else that it might be because of Full Screen Window and might be solved by switching to "Real" fullscreen. Once I tested I let you know :-)
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Can't reproduce the issue on my box. But maybe i'm not using the exact settings you have.