RE: HD media player - consensus on the best?

[Paul Gale <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just tried Ember - what a great bit of software :)

Will try XBMC Live next to see how it's progressed :)

Anyone know if any of the current mini PC's have Component out as well as
HDMI?

Cheers,

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Dean Barrett
> Sent: 06 April 2010 09:51
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HD media player - consensus on the best?
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>
> I use it with the default skin that the current download on xmbc.org
> comes
> with - very attractive looking..
>
>
>
> Dean.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of
> Paul Gale
> Sent: 06 April 2010 09:09
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HD media player - consensus on the best?
>
> Thanks Dean,
>
> I did use XBMC on my old original Xbox a couple of years ago. Might be
> worth
> looking at again I guess - although I would like component output -
> could
> buy an HDMI to component converter I guess.
>
> What skin do you like best on it?
>
> Paul.
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> > Of Dean Barrett
> > Sent: 06 April 2010 08:55
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HD media player - consensus on the best?
> >
> > I'm using XBMC too as well as the C200
> >
> > I have to admit it does work very very well !!
> >
> > I just stuck it on the PC I use for ripping stuff (new but
nothing
> > really
> > fancy) to see what it was like and its now like a family friend
:)
> > Plays everything we chuck at it.
> >
> > If you go down that route, use something like Ember Media Manager
to
> > sort out your NFO files as XMBC/Plex etc. seem to do a rank job
of
> > getting the correct movie info :(
> >
> > Big benefit for me is that XBMC integrates into Control4 - so we
can
> > choose movies direct from the C4 GUI
> >
> >
> > Dean.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> > Of Paul Gale
> > Sent: 06 April 2010 07:47
> > To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HD media player - consensus on the best?
> >
> > Thanks Ian - does that play HD well?
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf
> > > Of Ian Oliver
> > > Sent: 06 April 2010 07:43
> > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] HD media player - consensus on the
best?
> > >
> > > In article
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> <564D52CC2069D44EB996CDEAD94D911E98F1753454@xxxxxxx
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> > > el.com>, Paul
> > > Gale wrote:
> > > > I guess this is impossible as everyone has their own
thoughts and
> > > experiences on this and there
> > > are a LOT out there - but, is there a consensus on which
hardware
> > > media players would be at the top of the list for quality,
features
> > > and most of all UI usability?
> > >
> > > Acer Revo R3600, Linux, and XBMC.
> > >
> > > Ian Oliver
> > > Sunny Leeds, UK
> > > Using Java on Tini for control via Dallas 1-wire
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