Please let us know your experience with it after you get it! I'm currently using the a raspberry pi with XBian as a media box and I start to get tired of both its slow speed and of the fact that the file system of the SD-card gets corrupted once every other week.
Regards, Dov On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Amos Shapira <[email protected]>wrote: > Just wanted to thank everyone for your opinions. > > I also talked to a friend who owns an Apple TV and saw it in operation > (the one which can't be hacked, he uses DNS forwarding tricks to make it > talk to his storage. Don't ask - it's stuff that he accumulated over years) > and he also thinks that the Cubox looks good for my needs. > > Cheers, > > --Amos > > > On 15 January 2014 04:38, Udi Finkelstein <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If you want to follow the state of Linux and XBMC on ARM, you can take a >> look at this thread: >> http://www.hometheater.co.il/vt168648.XBMC-on-Linux-for-Arm-Devices.html >> >> Udi >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:18 PM, geoffrey mendelson < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 1/13/2014 3:00 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> The attraction I see in Cubox is the ability to run standard Linux on >>>> it. Isn't it better than android-only on some hardware from China? >>>> >>>> The Cubox seems to be the same general hardware with less ports. What >>> I don't understand is why they are pushing the $100 unit, when for $30 more >>> you get twice the cores and twice the RAM. >>> >>> I don't know what the other units run, the one I pointed to did not >>> officially support Linux, it does not mean it won't run on it. >>> >>> I was a victim of feature creep, I started out with a direct from China >>> Chromecast (without the brand name) and ended up with an Arm based PC. >>> >>> As for Android, what bothers me about it is that unless you root the >>> device you can't add device drivers (which may not be an issue to you, it >>> turns out not to be one to me), and the UI for some things sucks. If you >>> look back to the how to play videos link I posted, it works, but my wife >>> would never use such a thing. A simple App which would list files on a file >>> server, where you could tap to play them, with all the setup hidden would >>> be right for her. I also have not found a player that can fast forward >>> within MP4 files. :-( >>> >>> Or in plain English, I would be a lot happier if XMBC worked on my >>> tablet, or someone copied the Apple TV player as an Android App. >>> >>> As far as running bit torrent, the thing that I have found that affects >>> download rates the most is latency. If you have a fast multicore X86 (or >>> X64) processor, a wired ethernet connection and a fast upload speed, you >>> get a lot faster downloads, even if your slower CPU is not heavily loaded. >>> >>> >>> Geoff. >>> >>> -- >>> Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ >>> Jerusalem Israel. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux-il mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >> > > > -- > [image: View my profile on LinkedIn] > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer> > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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