It runs surprisingly fast from an SD card. Installation was a breeze and after rebooting again without the USB stick, the system started from the SD card. I used Win32DiskImager to write the OpenELEC disk image to a USB stick, plugged in the SD card and the USB stick on the NUC and rebooted the system from the USB stick. The functionality is very recently developed and has not found its way to the actual OpenELEC and Kodi distributions yet. However, if you want to use your NUC for 4K resolutions or HEVC decoding, you will need a development build that is available here.
The latest version of OpenELEC today is the OpenELEC 6.0 beta 3. You could even connect an external USB drive. Of course there won’t be much storage for media files, but for the storage you’ve got options: either you stream your content from a network drive (NAS) or you can install a 2.5 inch disk in this NUC. I’m also going to install OpenELEC on the SD card and not on a hard drive – just to keep the costs down. You can literally have a full media center running in 15 minutes with OpenELEC. OpenELEC is an open-source project which is designed for one purpose – to run the Kodi media center application as smoothly as possibly. However, movies at 24p or 30p should be fine on the Braswell.Īs the Braswell NUC is the cheapest Intel NUC with a price tag of only / / I think it’s natural to pair this NUC with a free operating system. For 3840× you would need a device with HDMI 2.0 interface or DisplayPort 1.2. It also supports 4K resolutions up to 3840× This is the maximum resolution that can be supported using HDMI 1.4b interface. There’s even infrared receiver integrated and what is very interesting for a lot of people, it can do HEVC decoding in hardware – something that the few months old Core i3 and i5 Broadwell models cannot despite being more expensive. It does not consume a lot of energy (think 10 watts max), it is small and quiet, and it has got the looks. The Braswell NUC has the promise of being a perfect HTPC. However, we’re not here to talk about Bay Trail today. Actually, very recently the clever Linux developers have cracked the nut and found a way to make Bay Trail take care of interlacing properly. This made the Bay Trail a poor choice for people who wanted to watch live TV on their HTPCs as TV streams are mostly interlaced. The Bay Trail NUC DN2820FYKH was a very popular starting point in the HTPC business, but it had a few shortcomings: it had only 4 execution units in the GPU and thus it was not able to perform proper upscaling and deinterlacing.
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