Ideal mini-device for XBMC

Question

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Now XBMC is on an atom machine and connected to a TV set via HDMI. But this machine, the infection, is noisy.
In connection with this, I decided to look towards the now popular mini-devices for connecting to a TV set via HDMI. Didn't expect there to be so many.
Accordingly, the question is, who, on their own experience, will tell you a piece of iron for XBMC? The price of the issue is not very exciting, more interested in noiselessness, sufficient performance, HDMI-CEC support will also be a plus.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Maybe the link www.raspberrypi.org/ + www.raspbmc.com/ will do?

Answer 2

I bought a Raspberry Pi, in principle it is quite usable, and you can bring it to mind with a file (when playing a video against the background of the menu, it slows down). The good news is that you can power directly from usb from the same TV, and there are several ready-made software solutions already with an xbmc player. One big minus, Wifi couldn’t start normally, it doesn’t pump big rips. In general, I advise you to look for something better))

Answer 3

I have a feeling it's still early. RPi is not very powerful: it works, but it slows down. Odroid U2 is powerful, but until hardware decoding was screwed up, happiness did not come. There is Pivos Xios DS, which seems to work. But it is necessary to order from America + I do not like the remote control on which there are almost no buttons. There are players similar to Xios in hardware, but xbmc does not seem to start very smoothly on them.
In general, close, but really does not work.

Answer 4

If you don’t mind the money, take a full-fledged i3-i5 in a case with passive cooling. The design is a little expensive, but it also has the appropriate potential. Here is the corpus. Delivery is horse-like, and even only through mail forwarders. But to be honest, I'm still drooling over her with about your own goals.

Answer 5

I myself use Fujitsu-siemens amilo Q5020, interesting nettop with Core2duo E2200, 1gb ddr2 so-dimm (2 slots), sata2CF-card adapter+16gb CF card x400, wifi, gbit lan, intel 965 video, DVI, optical sound, 4- USB 2.0, and two micro-PCI slots (one is occupied by Wi-Fi). small, quiet (sometimes it really makes a little noise when it warms up) but you can’t hear it, because it’s connected to the 5.1 system =), it’s a normal option, now it’s used $85-120