Re: Mac Mini v Popcorn Hour A110

[Kenneth Watt <kwatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22 Mar 2009, at 09:38, Phil Harris wrote:

> Thing is that as far as I understand Plex isn't actually using any
> of the
> GPUs hardware decoding capabilities - it's all being handled in
> software.

Dunno. :)

You did of course leave out one of Plex's big weaknesses IMO, the fact
that it can't deal with multiple disc DVD's or files where a movie is
split across two discs or files. So, the likes of LOTR special
editions, Godfather, Goodfellas etc. it just crashes when you try to
play them and MKV's that are split it seemingly plays one of the files
at random. That's annoying as the only way to play them is to ferret
around in the files and select the one you want.

For a media player that's pretty bad.

You're also stuck with IR, the best you can do is to use codes from
Apple TV which are limited.

K.

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