Here still looking for a quickie small footprint XBMC solution for my kitchen dining nook LCD TV.
I did a search on smallest computer that would run XBMC.
Never saw this CuBox before. Anyone using one of these for XBMC today?
Included specs for this one.
The NUC is about 4.5" square and 1.5" high. My older Patriot PBO with sata drive was about similiarly sized with a propietary and modded OS.
I am reading threads relating to installing XBMC on it; which would be really nice. More reading indicates that the CPU is just too slow to run XBMC on the PBO.
It does work fine using upnp streaming of videos and music from another xbmc box. It always has.
The Patriot PBO box is the smallest NMT that I use today and still runs great.
The cuBox a bit expensive though at around $150 USD to play with. The PBO's were reasonable at $50 each with no sata drives. The Intel Nuc is priced almost right at somewhere between $150-200 right now?
I am looking for a 1080 streaming little mini computer that will fit behind the LCD in the kitchen which is flush mounted to the wall.
Found another small footprint NMT; based on Android and flashed with XBMC Linux is working OK. It is called an XIOS DS
Very impressive; you can leave it at Android or run a custom XBMC Linux build on it. I might give this a try. I am reading that it does run XBMC faster in Linux mode than Android OS mode.
http://www.pivosforums.com/viewforum.php?f=27[/URL]
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Physical Dimensions
Approximately: 55mm x 55mm x 42mm (2.17 x 2.17 x 1.65 inches)
Weight: 91 metric grams (0.2 lb, or 3.2 oz)
Core SoC (System on Chip) and integrated co-processor cores
Marvell Armada 510 (88AP510) ARMv6/ARMv7 SoC in a 55nm BGA process package
ARM v6/v7-compliant processor core (Marvell's Sheeva PJ4 architecture, superscalar, dual issue CPU processor) clocked at 800MHz
VFPv3 - Vector Floating Point (VFP) v3 - Single precision and double precision FPU (Floating Point Unit) co-processor
WMMX / WMMX2 intruction set - Wireless MMX and Wireless MMX2[/url] support (but no NEON[/URL] support) SIMD extension
32KB L1 I-Cache
32KB L1 D-Cache
512KB L2 cache
Vivante GC600 2D and 3D capable hardware accelerated graphic engine supporting up to 16MT/sec and 300 MP/sec to WUXGA 24 bpp resolution over these APIs:
OpenGL ES 2.0[/url] (with full backwards compatibility with OpenGL ES 1.1[/url])
OpenVG 1.1
X11 / EXA
DirectFB 1.4
EGL 1.4
1GB 32-bit DDR3 RAM running at 800MHz (4 Hynix devices H5TQ2G63BFR-H9C [1][/URL])
vMeta HD Video Decoder hardware engine is running at 500MHz and is capable of Full HD 1080p at 30fps decoding H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2, etc. w
TrustZone cryptographic engine and security accelerator co-processor supporting AES, DES, 3DES, SHA-1, and MD5
Two XOR/DMA Engines and PDMA
PMU (Power Management Unit) engine
Integrated Real Time Clock (RTC)
External input/output ports, buttons, and interfaces
HDMI port supporting max 1080p at 50/60 Hz for TV, and max 1600x1200 at 60 Hz for PC (UXGA60)
HDMI 1.4a
DVI 1.0 backward compatible
EIA/CEA-861B
CEC (HDMI 1.4a)
HDCP 1.4 (TDA19988AHN and TDA19988AET only)
HA Audio (4 x I2S-bus or one S/PDIF; audio data rate up to 192 kHz)
Two High Speed USB Host ports (USB 2.0) supports both host and device modes
One 10Mbps, 100Mbps, and 1000Mbps Ethernet MAC port ("Gigabit Ethernet") supports Jumbo frame up to 9700 bytes
One S/PDIF (SPDIF transmitter optical audio) port
One eSATA I/II port supports port multiplier with integrated SATA II PHY (SATA AHCI 2.0 support at 3Gb/sec)
Standard IrDA Infra-red receiver for 38KHz based IR controllers (LIRC software support)
MicroSD SDXC capable slot (supporting up to 64GB microSDXC NAND flash memory) comes with a 2GB card
MicroUSB USB Device / Console for flashing (so no JTAG required making it "unbrickable" for developers)
Recovery Button
LED light indicator when powered-on
Input power 5mm/2.1mm DC Jack (requires a 5V/2A power supply that is included)
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