RE: KISS DP500

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>]

You can stream .VOB's but if you extract a DVD you get multiple VOBs and
playing a VOB doesn't give you the whole movie in one hit nor does it give
you access to the DVD menus. For that you need to be able to use the
VIDEO_TS.IFO file which seems to be the "index" that ties
everything
together.

The player *MUST* be able to understand it as it reads the VIDEO_TS.IFO
file
>from

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Rafferty [mailto:simonr@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 December 2003 23:15
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] KISS DP500
>
>
> What exactly do you want it to do Phil, as I CAN stream VOBs off
> my media server??
>
> Simon
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Phil Harris
>   To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>   Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 10:43 PM
>   Subject: RE: [ukha_d] KISS DP500
>
>
>
>   > I finally got round to running some CAT5 to my KISS DP500. I
have
>   > ripped all of my CD collection to my MP3 / Media server,
>   > downloaded all of our digital photos onto the server and sat
and
>   > started playing. SWMBO came in, watched me for 5 minutes then
>   > took the remote off me and has sat for the past half hour
playing
>   > all of her favourite tracks. Never have I seen such instant
SWMBO
>   > approval in my life, she is in heaven. I must say the new PC
link
>   > softweare is very good. I am going to see how it handles some
> VOBs later.
>   >
>   > I can honestly say, I have been very pleased with my DP500. I
am
>   > thinking of installing my copy of showshifter onto my media
>   > server (recording in divx pro) and seeing how it handles
streamed
>   > recordings. Does anyone have any experience of doing this ??
>
>   I've just been in touch with KISS's tech support guys because about
18
>   months ago we had a DP500 to trial because I thought that it
> would be the
>   ideal bit of kit for the playback of my network movies ...
unfortunatly
>   although at the time they assured me that it would play
> extracted DVD's off
>   the network they were wrong but assured me that it would be
> attended to in a
>   future firmware release.
>
>   Well, I had the "pleasure" of talking by email to one of
their guys last
>   week ... I explained carefully what I was doing and how I was
storing my
>   movie data and asked whether the DP500 could now play that data off
the
>   network.
>
>   "Yes ... that has been working for some time." was the
reply ... so I
>   decided to download the latest version of PC Link just to be
> sure and sure
>   enough nothing has changed! The DP500 still can't do what their
> tech support
>   guys say it can.
>
>   Now, this isn't a criticism of the DP500 - that's an OK machine
> - but I'm
>   not at all happy with KISS and their knowledge of their product (we
were
>   looking to sell it after all).
>
>   Phil
>
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