Re: Network Media Tank

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In film audio controls!? variable audio delay?!?!

Ooooh where's that?!?!?!

How do you get that up during a film?

also since i put the remote power kit onto my xbox which uses 0 to
turn on and off i can't use the skip to time as you have to enter 0130
to get to an hour and a half in and the 0 turns it off!!

Anyone any ideas?!=20
Thanks
Noel


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Nigel Champion <nigel_champion@...> wrote:
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> Hi Gareth,
> I see can me piecing together this "mini review" from mini
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> I am currently running them both in parallel via component out and
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> First up, the interface is no where near as slick as XMBC, the
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media.
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panel, is the variable audio delay slider...as some videos seem not
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to Blu Ray rips :) but still not as nice as XMBC
> HiDef is mostly good...providing you don't skip around the file.
They do recommend NFS (which I am using) for streaming of HighDef
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> It does have a few plugins like XMBC such as aYouTube player, which
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now and a lot of the bugs have been ironed out, only time will tell if
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> Not going to retire the Xbox just yet :)
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> Nigel
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxx>
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, 5 February, 2008 5:19:55 PM
> Subject: Fw: [ukha_d] Re: Network Media Tank
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> You able to share your thoughts of it - versus XBMC ? You say it can
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> ISO images ?
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> Tempting replacement. ..your feedback could be very helpful
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> ----- Forwarded by Gareth Cook/UK/IBM on 05/02/2008 17:18 -----
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