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| Thread ID: 128849 | 2013-01-19 07:40:00 | Mini-itx HTPC project - to run XBMC | Tukapa (62) | Press F1 |
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| 1323578 | 2013-01-24 22:24:00 | the k400 is alright. I have it for my media center but yeah the touchpad is pretty crap. It works but not very well especially on a Full HD screen. | jonovw (16835) | ||
| 1323579 | 2013-01-24 23:33:00 | My media Center is controlled by one of these wireless-keyboard-roundup-part (www.geektonic.com) Theres only one problem I have. The Numeric keypad is part of the normal keys, to change from letters to numbers you press Numlock - if you forget, anything like passwords are typed wrong, I use the Numeric keys to adjust the window size on certain media players ( #8 = increase height, #2= reduce height, 4 or 6 widen or reduce width etc) this is so you dont get the black lines around the movies like most DVD's display, real bugger when the lights are off or right down and ya cant find the right key :D The underside of it has grooves so it sits nice on your legs, its not flat, real comfortable. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1323580 | 2013-01-25 01:07:00 | What SD card are you using Chill....I have read the system can run faster if off a USB HDD... My TV is only 720p too! It can, but I have 3x 1.5TB HDDs and a 2TB, and even with a powered USB hub it'd still cause it to crash. Should really just replace my XP fileserver with a Linux-based one, or FreeNAS, but I'm lazy.... But yeah that was all streaming via SMB which *apparently* is the problem (Causes more load than playing locally or via NFS). So, I'm gonna try and SCP a file across, see how that goes playing it back locally off the SD Card. Then, I'm gonna try setting up the server to share via NFS and see if that improves things :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1323581 | 2013-01-25 02:01:00 | The SMB issue sounds a worry for me, all my media is on a DNS323 D-Link NAS..... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1323582 | 2013-01-25 02:01:00 | There is a backlog at the moment, they have 3000 in transit from Singapore, so still havent got mine yet! | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1323583 | 2013-01-26 02:20:00 | To OP and anyone else... I have been running Openelec generic on my media server for over a year now. Would not use anything else. It will boot up from flash drive, or you can copy over to a harddrive (I have a 40GB hd as boot drive, but you can you lower capacity if you like.. iirc the image is ~1GB) All I have as a media server is an AMD x2 4800+ .. can't remember the RAM - possibly 2GB. Runs with wifi dongle and generic MS media centre remote. Runs 720p fine with no glitches... have yet to try it on 1080p. I don't run movies from a NAS so I am not sure how it will perform in this area. HTH |
Myth (110) | ||
| 1323584 | 2013-01-26 08:26:00 | Well I'm trying to get the Pi up and running - have installed Openelec and that's all good - have tweaked the advanced settings as I read on one walkthrough/forum dedicated to getting the Pi up and running efficiently. I didn't realise this was going to be so much of a learning curve but as long as I learn then I get a benefit out of it! Had some issues with being able to see the Pi from my Windows PC but eventually got that sorted so hopefully I'm on the home run now. More tweaking is a job for another day me thinks! |
Tukapa (62) | ||
| 1323585 | 2013-01-26 20:14:00 | Yeah Myth that CPU is quite different from the one in the Pi, which I believe is where the issues stem from... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1323586 | 2013-01-27 01:09:00 | But yeah that was all streaming via SMB which *apparently* is the problem (Causes more load than playing locally or via NFS). So, I'm gonna try and SCP a file across, see how that goes playing it back locally off the SD Card. Then, I'm gonna try setting up the server to share via NFS and see if that improves things :) I now have my Windows shares visible and password issues resolved so have tried a few of the video files across the network through the Pi (via SMB). I have found that 720p video plays smoothly and there is no buffering fast forwarding or skipping ahead and the sound works well and is in sync. However, my .mkv blu-ray rips (ripped through MakeMKV) do not play smoothly. They are forever buffering causing stuttering etc. These are full rips ranging in size from 13GB to 32GB. I do have one blu-ray rip which was done through another program (Pavtube blu-ray ripper) and compressed down to 6GB (also a .mkv file) which plays fine across the network. I don't really want to have to go through and compress my full rips to enable this to work if I can help it. I'm going to have to read up and see if there are any more tweaks I can do to try and free up some resources. It's all a learning curve.... |
Tukapa (62) | ||
| 1323587 | 2013-01-27 06:54:00 | My 720p files have no buffering or skipping but there's the occasional dropped frame which I really noticed coz my TV is 200hz... Although there is a slight "jump" at the start of each music video, though I can't help but wonder if that's as it's offloading the audio decoding to the Onkyo receiver? I'm pretty sure that the MP4 h.264 rips from YouTube are all MP3 audio or AAC audio as opposed to AC3 or DTS (the only two codecs that it can offload). Even happens on local playback from the SD Card... Will investigate more when I get back home. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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