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CuBox-i a new possibility?
Sounds good. Look forward to it.
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On my cubox i2ultra I use Transcend C10 and 300x C10 UHS (rated 45 MBs) and they both read and write about 4 times the speed of a C4 also definitely under 20 MBs The speed is pretty much the same on Cubox, Windows and Linux, I have a USB Reader microSD reader rated 90/60 and it might be a bit faster than the cubox but not noticably faster, it certainly is faster than my internal laptop reader, I've got some 600x on order I'll let you know how those work

I have no issues with the IR with RC5 devices or my MCE RC6.

Martin
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For anyone running a CuBox-i2Ultra, how does a skin like NOX performs in one of these little boxes?

What about hardware acceleration in 1080p, no dropped frames?
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Thanks that's good to know. If I was to summarise: The IR and HW Accel seems to work but the skins pose a challenge.
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To summarize, there are two main issues to consider (using GeexBox; YMMV with OpenELEC, Linxbmc or Android):

- Locked to 60hz (at least for now)
- Laggy with heavy skins

Apart from that, it's extremely smooth. I haven't seen any dropped frames with 1080p, although I can't prove it since I haven't debugged it.

I watched a whole movie on it, and all was fine except it started rebuffering for a couple of seconds an hour into the movie I was watching. I'm using my old HTPC (a Shuttle with Intel Atom and AMD GPU) as a poor man's NAS, with a USB2 external drive connected, and the Cubox-i uses this drive as library through SSH/SFTP, so I'm guessing that's the reason. The movie was an MKV at approx. 15gb. I'm guessing my bottleneck caused the issue, rather than it being an issue with the Cubox-i.
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(2014-01-26, 05:47)joelbaby Wrote: Idea: I think XBMC might be much faster by upgrading micro SDHC card.

Maybe performance could be improved by moving Storage to a separate USB drive, similar to what folks are doing the the Raspberry Pi.

(I am watching this thread/device with great interest.)
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Just tried upgrading the micro sdhc card and i don't see any resonable difference.

Running XBMC 13 Alpha 11 Geexbox

See here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1610773

My Experience:

1. Downloaded Amber ( users reporting it's the fastest skin for rpi ) so a good skin to compare
2. Scanned my 450 Movies
3. Home menu: Very fast if you set one background for all items, else it lags ( fanart transistion ) could be the problem, also if you have the widgets/shelf turned on.
4. Library: If i choose the big list view showing only poster at once without fanart, scrolling is acceptable, with fanart enabled i'm getting slowdowns and really no pleasure.
5. Playing 1080p .m2ts files works smooth and it's a pleasure, also for .mkv and SD Material


Next step would be giving a try debian, ubuntu and for sure openelec ...
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FYI, Openelec added experimental Cubox-i support: OpenElec Cubox-i Manual installation
I guess this initial release is really for bold people.
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I hadn't even heard of Amber until now. Thanks for the report. Do you think it's faster than XeeBo? I leave XeeBo something like twice a year for a different skin, but I always come back after about a week because of the responsiveness, sensible out-of-the-box layouts and quick left menu. And now with the Cubox-i, Xperience1080 and a couple of others of my go-to skins are out anyway because of limited system resources. XeeBo just works. But I'm still interested to learn about alternatives. I've heard good things about the responsiveness of Quartz too. Has anyone tried it on the Cubox-i?
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Video 
Yesterday i've testet the Geexbox build 28.01.2014 from here:

http://d-h.st/2Ti

1. Flashed my 16GB Extreme SD Card
2. Resized the Card with ( Linux Mint Gparted GUI ) http://elinux.org/RPi_Resize_Flash_Partitions
3. Installed Xperience1080
4. Scanned my Movies and TV Shows to my library
6. Waited until metadata was extracted
5. Disabled RSS Feed and VSync

- Xperience1080 Home Menu is really smooth, ( i don't say it's perfect but quite usable and acceptable ) even all widgets are active !
- Scrolling through my library ( same as the Home Menu, not yet perfect but fast enough to scroll my 480 Movies )
- 1080p m2ts files no problems, mkv files no problems ( streamed over SMB )

If i get the time, I'll post a video this evening.

Here the Video, sorry for not that good quality, but at least it gives the look and feel experience. The animations and movements are much smoother in reality than in the video.



Next step i'm going to test this xbian build:

http://forum.xbian.org/thread-2083-post-20540.html#pid20540
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Just as a FYI for those that may be interested. Now that we have early support for CuBox-i devices in OpenELEC, I've added the builds to my nightly dev builds system. More details here:

http://xbmcnightlybuilds.com/openelec-cu...-are-here/

Nightly builds will be found here: http://xbmcnightlybuilds.com/category/openelec-cuboxi/

You can find my first test build here http://xbmcnightlybuilds.com/openelec-cu...-download/ or if you wait an hour or two there should be a new build available.

Like other platforms, new builds will automatically be built after every git update.

I'm putting together a script that should make installing easier too, and will make pre-created sd card images.
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These are really good news mate Smile

Thanx a lot !
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Keep in mind, these builds are untested by me at the moment. They should work, but until I get my devices I can't test locally....
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Posted a Video here:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1618184

Geexbox build from 28.01.2014 running XBMC with xperience1080 skin.
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I would be interested in knowing how it handles deinterlacing 1080i content. Do you have any live sources to test with?
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