Re: [OT]: Haupagge mediampv thoughts anyone?

["Martyn Wendon" <martynwendon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know about the new MVPs, but I had a bunch of the old ones
(nabbed
from PC World when they were down to 19.99).

In my opinion, there are 2 main drawbacks of the MVP:

It's a "dumb" device, as I recall it uses a variant of the VNC
protocol to
show it's screens which are actually running on the server pc which
resulted
in slow menus.

It can only natively decode MPEG1 & 2 and MP3.  It can play other
formats by
doing realtime transcoding on the server pc, but this means you need a
reasonably beefy pc.  At the time I was using them (about 12 months ago) it
could only transcode one stream at a time, so you couldn't watch 2 DIVX
films for example in different rooms.


There were a lot of different software versions available for it though
from
the forums and I recall that there was also some possible integration with
MythTV and GBPVR.  Some of the other software may have offered a better
interface / faster response / supported more file formats, but ultimately I
think the hardware constraints are the limiting factor.


For me, they served as an interim solution while I waited for XBOXs to come
down in price and I eventually ditched the MVPs for chipped XBOXs and XBMC.
As others have said, at the price point nothing touches them for
functionality - mine have played everything I've thrown at it.


Martyn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon McCaughey" <simonmcc@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT]: Haupagge mediampv thoughts anyone?


>I looked at this solution, but rejected it for 2 main reasons:
> 1) Only stereo out - no optical or coax
> 2) Doesn't play MPEG4 - most downloaded video will not work without
> conversion
>
> Obviously this is far from comprehensive, but I hope it helps
>
> Simon
>
> On 23/02/06, Gary <questuk1@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> looking for advice on the Haupagge mediampv, as I want to play
movies
>> on my TV.
>>
>> http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/products/data_mediamvp.html
>>
>> "Watch PC based music, videos and pictures on your TV set.
Play slide
>> shows with music, too!
>>
>> Connects to Ethernet networks with standard RJ-45 connectors!
>>
>> Plays MP3 music and music playlists
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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