[Jorman]

Hi to all, first of all, tnx for continuous support.

Now the hard stuff

So, actually I've one Asus eeepc EB1501 with XBMCBuntu on it.
I've also bought a little home theater, samsung ht-bd1250.

Now, I want to connect my "player" to the home theater to take advantage of the 5.1, or ac3 or others ... but:
1. Asus don't have an optical out
2. Samsung don't have an hdmi in, but have 2 optical in

I searched for a solution, I found a kind of usb sound board, but the digital out is tied to additional software, so ... I don't find either solution that change my player.

I mean, I need:
1080 playback
a true digital out
a Ethernet port
remote controlled

So I searched on the web, and I found a veryyyyy lot of player, but I don't know if is a good idea, you know, I think that a linux based is better than android but I don't have any experience about it, and I don't want to waste money and take an useless player.

So my goal is to have a fast XBMC player and send the audio to home theater.

And now the question, what kind of player?

Reading the wiki page I see

Code:

Various "Android" boxes - can run Linux and boot directly into XBMC. Hardware video decoding for most video codecs, GUI is very responsive on most skins. Running Linux/XBMC on these "Android boxes" will likely result in better performance than running Android/XBMC.

But, witch one can do that? I mean I think that is the best solution, maybe I'm wrong ...

Ps I've contacted the support for Matricom G-Box Midnight MX2, but they tell me that the spdif for MX2 is only analog

Any ideas or suggestion?

Jo

[00b5]

Are you happy with the eeepc?

Get this: http://www.monoprice.com/Product/?c_id=1...&p_id=5557

I use it just as you probably will do, to get hdmi from a laptop to a TV, and do optical out to my older AVR.

[samteeee]

I just got my "MiiPC" that I supported as a "Kickstart" project and am really happy
with it. I can't emphasis enough on build quality and solid parts under the hood.
The second Firmware that is coming out will iron out the few shortcomings that
exist and thus makes it a solid choice for you to consider. You can place an order
at www.miipc.com for $99 Dollars.

Good Luck

[Jorman]

Tnx @00b5

But is not for me