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Hi, i have the last days been searching up and down for a replacement for my old HTPC (core duo e6500 with radeon hd5450), i have all my movies backed up in full quality on several harddrives.
Demands for the new box is:
Capable of passing the audio to my reciver
Capable of playing 4k@30 and 1080p@24
I would like it to be able to play 3D
my options so far is:
nVidia shield
Beebox
Intel NUC
Build a new HTPC without a gfx card and just CPU graphics
Build a new HTPC with all the bells and whistles
Halp :0
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noggin
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2016-01-14, 14:14
(This post was last modified: 2016-01-14, 14:17 by noggin.)
3D will be the killer unless you are happy with HSBS/HTAB content.
If you want 3D MVC (i.e. Full HD 3D and Blu-ray quality) then you will need to look at either a Raspberry Pi 2 (which is the only platform that runs 3D within Kodi properly) or a PC running Windows and an external player solution on an x86 platform that supports 3D MVC and Frame Packed output (at one point only Core i-series models did this, but I think this has changed more recently).
The Pi 2 will losslessly decode HD Audio (apart from 5.1/7.1 192kHz stuff which is rare) - but won't bitstream HD Audio (DD/DTS bitstream fine) and thus won't deliver Atmos.
The Pi 2 will not do 4K.
There are a couple of other Kodi solutions that will play 3D - but they are not without limitations.
There is a sticky thread or two about this at the top of the forum... Worth reading before asking a question that has kind of been answered already.
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menell
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Build a new HTPC and use AMD A10 +APU.. more powerful and you will not have issue.