Hey Lou quick... I was really looking for a second stable box... I have a intel nuc 3 running xbmc on window running aeon and it's super smooth did you try any addons or a different skin and how does the fire run?
Nice, I too have an i3 NUC in my main system. The NUCs are awesome but I am really thinking about replacing it with a Fire TV. Kinda tired of dealing with a keyboard and a mouse and an operating system. The Fire TV remote works awesome for xbmc. It does 90% of what I need it to do. The FTV is just so convenient. Really quick at everything. I tried four other skins and they all run smooth. I tried Amber, AEON MQ5 and NOX, and Cirrus Extended. I don't really use that many addons but tell me which addon do you like to know about and I'll try it.
Quick Question, or two. 1, how is the video playback quality with the Fire? Do you get high end 1080p, or is it inferior to a more powerful HTPC? 2, what skin are you using in the video? The standard "Confluence" or something else?
1. The FTV has more than enough power for 1080P videos. All my blu-ray rips are 1080p MKV. I haven't had any playback problems yet. 2. The skin used in the video is the default Confluence skin. I also tried Cirrus Extended, Amber, AEON NOX, AEON MQ5 and the FTV was able to handle them all. One thing you should know is that the FTV can't do DTS-HD or Dolby TrueHD.
The Fire TV has one USB port but all you can do with it right now is connect a keyboard or a mouse. No external storage support yet so you can't connect you external hard drive directly to the Fire TV to watch your videos. You need something like a NAS or another computer with your video files on the same network. There are rumors that Amazon will make it possible in the future to connect a HD to the USB port, but who knows, I will only believe it when I see it.
First, I use MakeMKV to make a 1:1 mkv copy. Then I use Handbrake to shrink the size of the files. A 30GB file made with MakeMKV will be 10-12GB after the conversion with Handbrake. I suggest you uninstall Handbrake and then install it again. That should fix the crashing issue. The main reason I use MakeMKV for the initial rip is that Handbrake can't break the DRM encryption on the discs that have DRM. A lot of DVDs and Blurays have DRM encryption. MakeMKV breaks it and it lets me copy all discs.
theres no such thing, both will play the video at the same quality. Thus, I have a minix neo x5 and it's impossible to play files at 1080p 5.1 acc3, while the ftv could probably handle it just fine. get a minix neo x8, its a beast
yea im a member of offside streams....but I was just looking for a good 2nd stable box... I use xbmc mainly for my movies on hard drive for kids u know... you look like you have a nice collection...were do you get your movies from???
sont77 Usually from ebay. There is a lot of people on there who auction off lots of 10+ blurays. The cost is usually about $3 per blu-ray. An even cheaper way is to rent blurays from a Redbox kiosk (Redbox is owned by Verizon). It's $1.50 a day. What I do is rent the movie and rip it to my hard drives and return the movie that same day since the kiosk is less than a mile from my house. This is a cheap way to get new releases.
Bought the box... Wow super smooth..even with aeon
Nice. Which xbmc version did you install?
Cool Thanks
Hey Lou quick... I was really looking for a second stable box... I have a intel nuc 3 running xbmc on window running aeon and it's super smooth did you try any addons or a different skin and how does the fire run?
Nice, I too have an i3 NUC in my main system. The NUCs are awesome but I am really thinking about replacing it with a Fire TV. Kinda tired of dealing with a keyboard and a mouse and an operating system. The Fire TV remote works awesome for xbmc. It does 90% of what I need it to do.
The FTV is just so convenient. Really quick at everything.
I tried four other skins and they all run smooth. I tried Amber, AEON MQ5 and NOX, and Cirrus Extended.
I don't really use that many addons but tell me which addon do you like to know about and I'll try it.
Quick Question, or two.
1, how is the video playback quality with the Fire? Do you get high end 1080p, or is it inferior to a more powerful HTPC?
2, what skin are you using in the video? The standard "Confluence" or something else?
1. The FTV has more than enough power for 1080P videos. All my blu-ray rips are 1080p MKV. I haven't had any playback problems yet.
2. The skin used in the video is the default Confluence skin. I also tried Cirrus Extended, Amber, AEON NOX, AEON MQ5 and the FTV was able to handle them all.
One thing you should know is that the FTV can't do DTS-HD or Dolby TrueHD.
Hey I have a question can you install a hard drive to the Amazon Fire Tv to play your own videos through XBMC?
The Fire TV has one USB port but all you can do with it right now is connect a keyboard or a mouse. No external storage support yet so you can't connect you external hard drive directly to the Fire TV to watch your videos. You need something like a NAS or another computer with your video files on the same network.
There are rumors that Amazon will make it possible in the future to connect a HD to the USB port, but who knows, I will only believe it when I see it.
Do you stream from any of the addons for videos like 1 channel ?
I have tried those addons and they do work but the quality of the videos and sound is low so I never bother with them.
What soft ware do u use I was using handbrake but all of the sudden it keeps crashing for windows 7
First, I use MakeMKV to make a 1:1 mkv copy. Then I use Handbrake to shrink the size of the files. A 30GB file made with MakeMKV will be 10-12GB after the conversion with Handbrake.
I suggest you uninstall Handbrake and then install it again. That should fix the crashing issue.
The main reason I use MakeMKV for the initial rip is that Handbrake can't break the DRM encryption on the discs that have DRM. A lot of DVDs and Blurays have DRM encryption. MakeMKV breaks it and it lets me copy all discs.
Is there any bugs or problems with xbmc on ftv and can you install a browser and showbox?
No known bugs. Yes, you can sideload a browser on the Fire TV. You do it the same way as with xbmc.
I don't know what showbox is.
If u go on wiki page I installed the one that say s 13.0. .... At the top ... Is there a better one
That's the latest and it is stable. It's what I have on mine too.
which has better video quailty the ftv or minix5?
I have never used the minix5 box. In fact, the FTV is the first Android box that I have used.
Sorry I couldn't help.
theres no such thing, both will play the video at the same quality. Thus, I have a minix neo x5 and it's impossible to play files at 1080p 5.1 acc3, while the ftv could probably handle it just fine. get a minix neo x8, its a beast
I use offsides streams and I steams mainly ... I have a little black box as my second box and it's terrible
Is offside streams part of a repository? I can't seem to find it.
It looks like offside streams is a paid service. I can't help you.
yea im a member of offside streams....but I was just looking for a good 2nd stable box...
I use xbmc mainly for my movies on hard drive for kids u know... you look like you have a nice collection...were do you get your movies from???
sont77 Usually from ebay. There is a lot of people on there who auction off lots of 10+ blurays. The cost is usually about $3 per blu-ray.
An even cheaper way is to rent blurays from a Redbox kiosk (Redbox is owned by Verizon). It's $1.50 a day. What I do is rent the movie and rip it to my hard drives and return the movie that same day since the kiosk is less than a mile from my house. This is a cheap way to get new releases.