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I have an opportunity to pick up a Boxee for $50. I am already running XBMC on my Ouya, but would like a cheap box that does 24p and comes with a decent remote. Curious to hear from people here that have been using XBMC on their Boxees as to how well it's running. I'm not interested in spending a lot of money on a NUC or other x86 based system, so don't bother telling me to save my money and buy something better than Boxee. Rather, I just want to know if it seems like a good xbmc investment for $50.
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kdnoel
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The link above your post will lead you to the hack and XBMC 13.1.
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@saudagar: Goto the link in kdnoel's post and once on the forums, just PM one of the dev's and they should be able to get you the link to all there builds. If I still had the link, I would provide it, but I don't have the link anymore. Because I want speed with my massive library, I ended up scarpping the boxee box for another project. But yeah those guys should be able to provide the link. If you have a hard time, shoot me a PM and if I still have the zip file, which I think I do, of the build I was using, I will upload it to ya!
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kdnoel
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Stick with 13.1 as it is stable and a final release.
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would installing xbmc on a 500gb western digital usb hard drive be better than just a usb stick or are there people having problems using external hard drives? would like to have the extra space
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2014-07-27, 20:46
(This post was last modified: 2014-07-27, 20:49 by JonSnow88.)
I gave up on the Boxee Box and in the process of moving to the Raspi. I have 2 BBox's and the slow boot times, audio drop outs and video freeze while skipping where just starting to annoy me (been using XBMC on it since the early alphas). The Raspi and BBox perform about the same as far as I can tell.
Yes the BBox has the better hardware on paper, but the software is functional but buggy and no real support from the XBMC devs. If the XBMC devs fully supported the hardware like they do with the Raspi and ATV I'm sure it can out perform the Raspi. Until then it's not going to get better than what it is now, plus there is like 1 dev working on the project now.
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kdnoel
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I have found Boxee to be a stable and reliable solution to run XBMC. Being a repurposed device has been economical and keep it out of the landfill for now. I haven't experienced all the issues you have described.
I'm glad you are happy with your replacement choice. I'll be going with an i3 or better solution when the Boxee fails.