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Hi all,
I'm Ettore from Italy.
I'd like to buy ouya for my parents to watch movies through xbmc.
I read that there are issues with dts and ac3. Will playing a mkv with dts&ac3 audiotracks results in a no audio?
thank you
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Not if you install spmc, or gotham beta. It only downmixes though. So you will not get surround sound just 2.0. I would probably build something a little more user friendly for parents though. Mabye a pivos or PI with openelec. Ouya runs great but only if you care to tinker.
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I was in the process to buy a PI but than I read that ouya was faster with menu and 1080p play...
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It was fantastic, but the latest update has completely borked it!
Files that in the past worked perfectly are all failing and only a few with ac3 codec are now working better. That wasn't a fix, it was a mistake! I can't watch my TV Shows anymore, the main reason I got a the Ouya to replace my xbox 360.
Please fix it!
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Agree. For some reason, no TV shows work on my Ouya. Movies do....
It IS fast, however. Get one, try it. Xbmc is easy to get and autoload on startup. There are a few quirks, but they're cheap. If you must go android, they're OK, but I'm ditching mine.
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(2014-04-24, 02:50)mcenal Wrote: It was fantastic, but the latest update has completely borked it!
Files that in the past worked perfectly are all failing and only a few with ac3 codec are now working better. That wasn't a fix, it was a mistake! I can't watch my TV Shows anymore, the main reason I got a the Ouya to replace my xbox 360.
Please fix it!
What update? The OUYA firmware? Are you sideloading XBMC
nightly builds (wiki)?
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I assume he means Jackelope. Abominable Snowman worked, the next one started giving me issues. Then I wasn't able to revert back to test.. .... Technology stuff.
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I haven't posted for a while but a big reason why is because of Ouya. Works great and haven't had any issues.
When Gotham came out, I did a factory reset, installed gotham from the XBMC website and I was done. I haven't had a single issue with it. Just a tank of a device. I own 4 OUYA's and 1 HTPC with XBMC.
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Ouya here as well, connected to bedroom TV (HDMI 2.0 audio) with streaming via NFS over LAN.
No issues really at all and a quick UI.
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Hi guys, new to the forum here - have tried searching for the issues below but cannot find anything so apologies for any duplication.
I seem to have a decent setup working on a new Ouya box I got yesterday. However, having come from a laptop running XBMC, I'm still having a few issues with things - any help would be greatly appreciated!
1. Is there a way to display codecinfo? On the laptop, I used to hit 'O' and it would display - any way I can do this from the Ouya controller?
2. Is it possible to get the official XBMC remote working with Ouya? If so, how?
3. I tried to install iStream on Gotham using the transparency skin which seems stable (all the others I tried do not seem to be compatible with Gotham yet?) - whenever I click on iStream from the main menu, instead of taking me through to the iStream menu where you can pick Movies, TV Shows, Settings, Search etc. it takes me through to the Video add-ons page....should I just try a fresh install of iStream or is there a deeper issue at play here?
Thanks in advance for any assistance!