The NUC should try to detect a bootable drive, in this case the USB stick with PMP disk image. Next step is to create the disk image for the USB stick by following the official tutorial.Īfter plugging both USB sticks (one with the disk image and another that will act as the computer’s drive) and keyboard to the Intel NUC, turn it on. Click on Download button, then select Intel 64-bit.Under Choose your app, select Plex Media Player > Embedded Platforms.Make sure Plex Pass Downloads is checked on.To download Plex Media Player (PMP) for the Intel NUC, just follow these steps: Plex Media Player for Embedded Platforms installation In addition, you also need a spare USB drive with around 1GB of storage and USB keyboard to copy and install the Plex Media Player for embedded platform image. For me, the SanDisk Ultra Fit just offered the best bang for the buck. You could go with SDXC or even hard drive/SSD instead of using USB flash drive, that one is completely up to your preference. SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive – $10.Kingston HyperX Impact Black 4GB 1600MHz DDR3L SODIMM – $25.Here’s the list of components to get it up and running: While some people might doubt its processing power because it is still running on Celeron processor, but it’s already based on Braswell chipset and Braswell comes with HEVC hardware acceleration support. Primarily because of the price point, at less than $130 (barebone, no RAM, no drive) it was still quite an amazing price. The hardware: Intel NUC5CPYHĪ few options came into consideration, including NVIDIA SHIELD TV and AsRock BEEBOX N3150, but I finally decided to go with Intel NUC NUC5CPYH. There is one extra requirement though: it needed to be in the sub $200 budget because I only wanted it as Plex client, not server. So the search was on to find a hardware that would be able to fill those gaps. No HD Audio (Dolby TrueHD and DTS-MA) passthrough when using PHT on Windows.No gigabit ethernet port, only 100 Mbps.I had to use Flirc USB to control it from my Logitech Harmony remote. Even though it had built-in IR receiver, there was no Windows driver for it.Its Quad Core Intel Atom processor were choking to handle 1080p H.265 encoded videos. No hardware accelerated for HEVC (H.265) video format.This means, I couldn’t install the next generation Plex Media Player which unfortunately required 64-bit MacOS or Windows. It could only be installed with 32-bit version of Windows (or any other 圆4 based operating system) due to limited BIOS and drivers support.It had served its primary purpose well but I started to find some limitations from it: A little backgroundįor over a year, I had been using Minix Neo Z64 running Plex Home Theater as client to browse and play media library from my Plex Media Server on my TV. They no longer support booting from (micro) SD card, as shared by one of the readers. ![]() UPDATE October 21, 2017: Intel has released a newer generation of NUC series (identifier: NUC7XXXXX). UPDATE November 30, 2016: Plex Media Player is now available for all Plex users ![]() * Plex Media Player is currently only available for Plex Pass users. Plus the release of Plex Media Player* last year with Embedded Platform app. That perception have now changed with the HEVC hardware accelerated encoding support in the newer chipset generations. Plus you probably need to make some additional spending on Windows 8/10 for the operating system. Before models with Brasswell and Sky Lake chipsets however, I always considered it as a big investment because you would need to grab one with i3, i5, or i7 processors to be sure it would be able to handle all media formats. The Intel NUC has been around for a while and considered as one of the best kit to build an HTPC.
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