On 22 April 2014 20:09, Imran Chaudhry <ichaud...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm after decent hardware to run XBMC on, I've already tried > OpenElec/Raspberry Pi but was not satisfied with it. I've bought a WD > Live Media Player which I am similarly not 100% happy with. >
I've run it on a Pi, and it just wasn't quite fast enough to give a nice response on menu transitions for everyday use (though I'm happy to take a Pi and hard-drive on holiday with me rather than a DVD player and stack of discs). At home I've got a couple of XBMC machines set up, both Atom boards. One's an Acer Aspire Revo - it's okay, but was a little fiddly to get all the audio configured. The other was a Zotac Zbox (can't remember exactly which model though) and it was a breeze to set up (I went with XBMCbuntu rather than OpenElec), and it runs the TV in the living room. Pretty much on all the time; we never watch broadcast telly. I've got a remote (full size) keyboard to manage it if I need to (or SSH for fiddly stuff!), but most of the time I just use the XBMC remote control app on my Android phone or the house iPad. At home I do run a separate file-server for the media (the XBMC boxes has little SSDs to keep them quiet), and a shared SQL server for the app database, but I set one up for a friend that just ran on a dedicated Zbox with a 3GB usb drive and he has no complaints.
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