[badmonkey]

If it's just SPDIF you are after then there appear to be a few new solutions around to make up for the poor audio, such as http://www.wolfsonmicro.com/media_centre/item/wolfson_audio_card_from_element14_-_high_definition_audio_for_the_raspberry/

I'm not sure if it's yet supported in xbian yet, but support is in some other xbmc distributions and it should become more common.

There's even some neat enclosures that take the new form factor with the card attached to the pi.

(13th Jun, 2014 01:31 AM)simic Wrote:  seeing that xbian is supporting cubox gives me confidence to get a replacement to my RPI.

I'm tired of having to get an external box to do the SPDIF audio extraction from the hdmi port.

I notice that cubox-i has 4 variants.

What is your recommendation?

Will xbian / video playback properly on the lowest end cubox-i1?

Looking to playback 1080p mkv with onboard software DTS decoding to 2.0.