<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442422870790_86634" dir="ltr">>You didn't really give a specification of what your speed issues were<span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442422870790_86634" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442422870790_86634" dir="ltr">Sorry, I did not read the last line, just a little tired today. The Cubox has al kinds of encoding/decoding for sound and video, which is why it is such a great XBMC (Kodi) computer.</div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, September 21, 2015 3:27 PM, Alex Davis via TriEmbed <triembed@triembed.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>> Anyone have a recommendation for a decent, tiny, and cheap (<$150) PC? I<br>> need something to drive the big LED display permanently. The original<br>> plan<br>> was to use a Raspberry Pi 2, but it lacked the necessary oomph. I was<br>> able<br>> to run it with little problem off my Lenovo S21e (Celeron N2840) but I<br>> wouldn't want to go less powerful than that. And I'd rather higher clock<br>> speed (> 2GHz) than more cores. Right now, my only real thought is to buy<br>> another S21e (about $170) but a whole laptop seems kind of silly... and<br>> for<br>> some odd reason, I cannot get basically the same hardware in a tiny PC...<br>> you know, without a screen, keyboard, and battery :P<br>> <br>> Note... part of the reason for the needed power is I've got it setup to<br>> do<br>> some video display, both from video files and a webcam... that is just<br>> dog<br>> slow on the Pi.<br><br>What about re-encoding the videos to something less CPU-intensive, like<br>MPEG2?<br><br><br>-- <br>"The theater of noise is proof of our potential."<br>|\ | (¯ \/ |¯\ |V| |\ ¯|¯ |¯) | \/ | | | |¯\ (¯ /¯ /\ |V|<br>|-||_ (_ /\ |_/ @| | |-| | | \ | /\ |^| | |_/ (_ . \_ \/ | |<br><br>You won't find me on Facebook.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:TriEmbed@triembed.org" href="mailto:TriEmbed@triembed.org">TriEmbed@triembed.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org" target="_blank">http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org</a><br>TriEmbed web site: <a href="http://triembed.org/" target="_blank">http://TriEmbed.org</a><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>