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Re: HD media player - consensus on the best?



I use my Mac with Plex.

It seems pretty good for me.

Ho-Yin

On 19 April 2010 16:04, Paul Gale <groups2@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> Ah - got it sorted.
>
> I must say, these nettop boxes are a bit of a revelation to me - being
used
> to PC's with 1KW PSU's, this only draws 25W powered on and 3W in
suspend
> mode - pretty amazing.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:
> ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of Paul
Gale
> Sent: 19 April 2010 10:08
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx <%27ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HD media player - consensus on the best?
>
> Have you got sleep and resume sorted on it yet?
>
> It turns off OK - but not figured out how to sleep it yet - I think
it's
> just a button mapping though - not sure what this hardware supports
for
> turning on via USB/WoL etc activity though?
>
> It does boot from cold impressively quickly though.
>
> Paul.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:
> ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf
> > Of Dean Barrett
> > Sent: 19 April 2010 09:35
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HD media player - consensus on the best?
> >
> > Snap - I've done exactly the same over the weekend
> >
> > R3610 and Live 9.11 - all seems to be working great.
> >
> > Movie playback is great and 1080P seems to be streaming no
problem, I
> > do
> > also love the Apple trailers thing - me and the kids have a list
of
> > movies
> > we now want to see
> >
> > Only thing I'm finding a little sluggish is the time it takes to
queue
> > up
> > and start playing a movie.
> >
> > Ember MM is great too - doing both YAMJ for the Popcorn and XBMC
at the
> > same
> > time saves an age !!
> >
> > I think my C200 and XBMC can co-exist side by side for the moment
as
> > the
> > C200 is now my only DVD/BluRay player
> >
> > Also just got an A-200 for my daughter which is like a A-100 on
> > steroids :)
> > She seems pretty impressed - though an R3610 almost works out as
> > cheap..
> >
> > Looks like the unpdated GUI for the Popcorns is a little closer
now...
> > http://j.mp/a5pEL4
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dean.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:
> ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf
> > Of
> > Paul Gale
> > Sent: 19 April 2010 08:45
> > To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx <%27ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>'
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HD media player - consensus on the best?
> >
> > Thanks to all the suggestions re a new media player, I bought an
Acer
> > Revo
> > 3610 last week and installed XBMC Live on it - what a fantastic
> > combination
> > - great menus, good movie and TV prog info (with Ember MM) and so
FAST
> > compared to my old PCH. Got pretty much everything working with
it
> > situated
> > in Node0 with an HDFury 2 HDMI to Component converter. Just have
to get
> > resume from sleep working via a remote (Harmony One) and it's all
done.
> > :)
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:
> ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>] On
> > Behalf
> > > Of Ian Oliver
> > > Sent: 10 April 2010 20:48
> > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] HD media player - consensus on the
best?
> > >
> > > In article
> > >
> >
<564D52CC2069D44EB996CDEAD94D911E98F1753478@xxxxxxx<564D52CC2069D44EB996CDEAD94D911E98F1753478%40homeserver2.home.siliconpi>
> > > x
> > > el.com>, Paul Gale wrote:
> > > > Did you try XBMC in it's current form before going to
Myth? How do
> > > > you rate Myth over it if so?
> > >
> > > XBMC is a better media player, mythtv is a better PVR. Some
people
> > run
> > > them side-by-side.
> > >
> > > I installed mythbuntu and then xbmc from the repos. Both
work a
> > treat,
> > > but mythtv is happy playing all of our media (2.5TB!) so we
just use
> > > that.
> > >
> > > Ian Oliver
> > > Sunny Leeds, UK
> > > Using Java on Tini for control via Dallas 1-wire
> > >
> > >
> > >
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