Re: What's currently the best box for streaming ripped DVD content?

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I use the Dune and Popcorn Hour players controlled by 10muse on my
iPad Min=
i...

Phil

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From: Brian Smith
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2013 19:38 pm
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] What's currently the best box for streaming ripped
DV=
D content?



Hi Paul

I have a couple of Dune players (a 101 and 301) and they have played
everyt=
hing I have asked them to. =C2=A0Never quite got around to it but they
also=
support control via the mymovies iPad app if that's of interest.

If there is any you want me to try file format / bit rate wise then let me
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know.

Cheers

Brian

On 2 Nov 2013, at 19:10, Paul Gordon <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Ok, so I'm sitting here looking at my jailbroken Apple TV2 contstantly
sayi=
ng "Loading"... 15 minutes now and impatient kids waiting for
Star Wars,...=
Another 5 minutes and it's going out of this 2nd floor window.... Like pre=
tty much anything that isn't genuine apple, it's utter shite...=20
The software is slow, buggy, and not a patch on the real thing... If I
coul=
d I'd just go to iTunes and pay for the damn movie (again) just to get the
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media I want when I want it, but unfortunately, the Star Wars films aren't
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on iTunes... They are all on my NAS of course, as ripped DVD's in video_ts
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folders... So sick am I of the piss poor performance of jailbroken kit,
tha=
t I am now resolved to find another box that does this better...

So, the question is, what *is* the best box for streaming my own personal
c=
ontent? Most of the front runners don't do it... I tried a windows PC for
a=
couple of years, - I'm never going down that route again... Roku doesn't d=
o local content... Apple TV doesn't do it without jail breaking, and doing
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that to it turns it into a pile of shite...

Surely in this day and age, it cannot be beyond the wit of mankind to make
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a box that is as good as a proper Apple TV, but which will play my ripped
D=
VD's... Is that really so much to ask?

Sent from my iPad

> On 28 Oct 2013, at 09:32, "Mark McCall"
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