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The Year of the Chromebook

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ChromeBox (Score: 1)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-05-14 09:20 (#1K0)

I got a $180 ASUS ChromeBox for use as an HTPC. The native video player can play all the bluray quality files that I've tried. Now if I can just figure out how to use a network share (CIFS or NFS) it would be nearly perfect.

I've tried to stream over HTTP using Plex and Synology Video station, but they both insist on transcoding the video. Anyone know of a good video library app that streams the raw source file using the HTML5 <video> tag? I created my own php project as a test to make sure it worked, but surely there are premade apps for this purpose.

Re: ChromeBox (Score: 2, Interesting)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-05-14 10:12 (#1K6)

BTW, maybe you'd have been better off with a Raspberry Pi running openELEC and XBMC? That's what I did as an alternative to Plex. Total price less than $100 including cables etc and if you are a bit more clever than me you can bring the price down even further. Boots in < 20 seconds, connects to your NFS NAS or equivalent (AFS, Samba also supported out of the box), and pumps video goodness over an HDMI cable. Cheap and easily replaced. Plus you've got a Raspberry Pi to play with, which means like me you'll start disconnecting it from your TV and playing with it, changing, reconfiguring, trying different distros, etc. - all until your wife tells you to knock it off and hook the damn thing back up so she can watch her show. Good times.

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