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zelenac · 2014-09-27, 02:04

Maybe I've found an alternative to Asus Chromebox: GIGABYTE BRIX GB-BXCE-2955 (http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product...id=4743#ov) - fanless, Intel Celeron 2955U, must add RAM memory + small SSD

What do you think about that?

nickr · (This post was last modified: 2014-09-27, 02:31 by nickr.)

The 2955 CPU is good for xbmc from what I have seen here. If its a good price for you, seems like a reasonable choice. There are other brix threads here, but they may refer to older models.

See here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?pid...pid1787832 although the pricing they discuss is almost certainly not what you are seeing locally.

~~Ned Scott~~ · 2014-09-27, 07:40

None of these will be able to do h.265 reliably.

nickr · 2014-09-27, 07:58

(2014-09-27, 07:40)Ned Scott Wrote: None of these will be able to do h.265 reliably.

While that is true, hevc was not in the spec.

~~Ned Scott~~ · 2014-09-27, 08:44

(2014-09-27, 07:58)nickr Wrote:
(2014-09-27, 07:40)Ned Scott Wrote: None of these will be able to do h.265 reliably.

While that is true, hevc was not in the spec.

He mentions it in post #5.

nickr · 2014-09-27, 09:50

(2014-09-27, 08:44)Ned Scott Wrote:
(2014-09-27, 07:58)nickr Wrote:
(2014-09-27, 07:40)Ned Scott Wrote: None of these will be able to do h.265 reliably.

While that is true, hevc was not in the spec.

He mentions it in post #5.

Ahh the changed spec. Bane if the IT dept.

BORIStheBLADE · 2014-09-27, 13:32

(2014-09-26, 22:27)eskro Wrote: honestly,,,

#1 on the ~$100 USD range
its either OUYA or AMAZON FIRE TV
using XBMC for android

#2 on the ~$150 USD range
its the TBS®2910 Matrix ARM mini PC
using OpenELEC

#3 on the ~$160 USD range
its the ASUS CHROMEBOX or HP CHROMEBOX
using OpenELEC.

MY pic, #3

This is what I'd go with

**fritsch** · 2014-09-27, 13:59

http://geizhals.de/zotac-zbox-ci320-nano...23321.html <- 4 gb memory missing.

host505 · (This post was last modified: 2014-09-27, 15:59 by host505.)

(2014-09-26, 20:40)zelenac Wrote:
(2014-09-26, 20:26)popcornmix Wrote: The Pi shouldn't have a problem with playing any 1080p video. (I can play raw Blu-Ray video just fine over the network).
rPi has a limited support in terms of video HW acceleration. It has problems playing some H.264 coding and I wasn't able to play any H.265 test movie on it.

That's not true (unless you're talking about Hi10p, Hi422p profiles etc.). Hell, it's even insulting to the person you quoted and the amazing work he has done to make this 40$ board a top-notch media player. In terms of videoplayback quality it's much superior than any android box.
As for H.265, good luck finding a device that does it properly - even 3-4 times the price of a rpi.

zelenac · 2014-09-27, 18:16

(2014-09-27, 15:45)host505 Wrote: That's not true (unless you're talking about Hi10p, Hi422p profiles etc.). Hell, it's even insulting to the person you quoted and the amazing work he has done to make this 40$ board a top-notch media player. In terms of videoplayback quality it's much superior than any android box.
As for H.265, good luck finding a device that does it properly - even 3-4 times the price of a rpi.

I have a RaspberryPi model B. When I was trying Raspbmc I wasn't able to play any high bitrate AVC 1080p m2ts with more than one audio tracks smoothly. Also high bitrate audio (DTS-HD or Dolby TrueHD) didn't work.
Also there is no MPEG-2 hardware decoding support unless you buy an extra license.

If RaspberryPi would be enough, I wouldn't ask here, because rPi with it's low power consumption and small price would be a clear winner.

host505 · (This post was last modified: 2014-09-27, 18:42 by host505.)

I don't know when "when" was but as of now (and thanks to popcornmix partially) and as popcornmix said any raw bluray file will work. With o/c, and if over lan with some advancedsettings.xml tweaks. All that under openelec, don't know about raspbmc.
Hdaudio I think will not passthrough, but it will be downmixed.
The mpeg2 licence is like 2-3$, and you'll pay for it in any machine that can hardware decode it - it's just fixed in the price of most.

averylinden · 2014-09-27, 18:47

Same is true regarding raw blu-ray playback on the latest version of Raspbmc. Although I rip my blu-rays to mkv and not m2ts.

papampi · 2014-09-28, 14:36

(2014-09-26, 22:27)eskro Wrote: honestly,,,

#1 on the ~$100 USD range
its either OUYA or AMAZON FIRE TV
using XBMC for android

#2 on the ~$150 USD range
its the TBS®2910 Matrix ARM mini PC
using OpenELEC

#3 on the ~$160 USD range
its the ASUS CHROMEBOX or HP CHROMEBOX
using OpenELEC.

MY pic, #3

Isn't Matrix tbs2910 with 1 ghz quad core CPU better than chromebox with 1.4 Gh celeron?

~~Ned Scott~~ · 2014-09-28, 14:39

(2014-09-28, 14:36)papampi Wrote:
(2014-09-26, 22:27)eskro Wrote: honestly,,,

#1 on the ~$100 USD range
its either OUYA or AMAZON FIRE TV
using XBMC for android

#2 on the ~$150 USD range
its the TBS®2910 Matrix ARM mini PC
using OpenELEC

#3 on the ~$160 USD range
its the ASUS CHROMEBOX or HP CHROMEBOX
using OpenELEC.

MY pic, #3

Isn't Matrix tbs2910 with 1 ghz quad core CPU better than chromebox with 1.4 Gh celeron?

No, not even close. You cannot compare number of cores or Ghz for different processor families. Especially when they're completely different types of processors.

shepo · 2014-09-28, 14:54

not had any problems playing 1080p stuff and that also includes down mixing DTS audio to stereo on my Pi