2013-12-19, 02:00
Hi all,
Im looking to buy a device to use as a client in the bedroom which will be mounted to the back of the TV (so it has to be silent/quiet) and Im looking for suggestion/details of your experience in doing something similar.
Ive just finished configuring XBMC on my main HTPC which is an all singing and dancing high end windows 8.1 PC and this will be stored in a media cabinet in the living room. Last night I went on to configure and test out the 512 Pi a friend gifted me for my birthday, but even overclocked at 950MHz and running off a USB3.0 disk its still very sluggish when loading up the movie collection from the HTPC (1100+ films and growing). I was using the confluence skin and the Pi is connected via ethernet.
All is not lost with the Pi, I plan to install it in the garden with just a set of speakers and control it with the XBMC app for the iPhone however this still leaves me at a bit of a loss for what system to put in the bedroom.
From what Ive read so far my choices are down to an Ouya or an Odroid-XU but I see that both currently have their problems.
Im running Aeon Nox on the HTPC, I love the interface, and would like to keep it consistent for the system in the bedroom. The HTPC is running MediaPortal as a TV server with XBMC as the client and I want to have live TV available on the bedroom client also. Will we control the client via our telephones so having a remote is already taken care of.
I would like the client to be able to handle DTS passthough via the HDMI cable as the screen in the bedroom has optical out and can handle this so I plan to install the current living room surround sound system in the bedroom one I upgrade.
Thoughts, suggestions and even insults welcome (as long as theyre good ones)
Im looking to buy a device to use as a client in the bedroom which will be mounted to the back of the TV (so it has to be silent/quiet) and Im looking for suggestion/details of your experience in doing something similar.
Ive just finished configuring XBMC on my main HTPC which is an all singing and dancing high end windows 8.1 PC and this will be stored in a media cabinet in the living room. Last night I went on to configure and test out the 512 Pi a friend gifted me for my birthday, but even overclocked at 950MHz and running off a USB3.0 disk its still very sluggish when loading up the movie collection from the HTPC (1100+ films and growing). I was using the confluence skin and the Pi is connected via ethernet.
All is not lost with the Pi, I plan to install it in the garden with just a set of speakers and control it with the XBMC app for the iPhone however this still leaves me at a bit of a loss for what system to put in the bedroom.
From what Ive read so far my choices are down to an Ouya or an Odroid-XU but I see that both currently have their problems.
Im running Aeon Nox on the HTPC, I love the interface, and would like to keep it consistent for the system in the bedroom. The HTPC is running MediaPortal as a TV server with XBMC as the client and I want to have live TV available on the bedroom client also. Will we control the client via our telephones so having a remote is already taken care of.
I would like the client to be able to handle DTS passthough via the HDMI cable as the screen in the bedroom has optical out and can handle this so I plan to install the current living room surround sound system in the bedroom one I upgrade.
Thoughts, suggestions and even insults welcome (as long as theyre good ones)