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Not having a lot of options out here without doing costly importing, I went
with a WDTV Live Hub. The 1TB drive allows me to put stuff on there and
play
it but it can also play stuff on my other drives as long as they are on the
wired LAN. Any drive on WiFi is not so great due to my apartment being a
nice big rebar Faraday cage type environment so WiFi is a little weak.
I have not found anything yet that it won't play. It even handles ISO's
direct from a DVD :)
No trouble playing ripped 1080 stuff either.
It's certainly not the prettiest interface but it's functional and works
fast enough.
Dave.
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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Paul Gordon
Sent: 03 November 2013 02:10
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] What's currently the best box for streaming ripped DVD
content?
Ok, so I'm sitting here looking at my jailbroken Apple TV2 contstantly
saying "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 pretty much anything that isn't genuine apple, it's utter shite...
The software is slow, buggy, and not a patch on the real thing... If I
could
I'd just go to iTunes and pay for the damn movie (again) just to get the
media I want when I want it, but unfortunately, the Star Wars films aren't
on iTunes... They are all on my NAS of course, as ripped DVD's in video_ts
folders... So sick am I of the piss poor performance of jailbroken kit,
that
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
content? 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 do
local content... Apple TV doesn't do it without jail breaking, and doing
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
a
box that is as good as a proper Apple TV, but which will play my ripped
DVD's... Is that really so much to ask?
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<div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><a
name="_MailEndCompose"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Not
having a lot of options out here without doing costly importing, I went
with a WDTV Live Hub. The 1TB drive allows me to put stuff on there and
play it but it can also play stuff on my other drives as long as they are
on the wired LAN. Any drive on WiFi is not so great due to my apartment
being a nice big rebar Faraday cage type environment so WiFi is a little
weak.<o:p></o:p></span></a></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>I
have not found anything yet that it won't play. It even handles ISO's
direct from a DVD :)<o:p></o:p>&
lt;/span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span style='
font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>No
trouble playing ripped 1080 stuff
either.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>It's
certainly not the prettiest interface but it's functional and works fast
enough. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p
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class=MsoNormal><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Dave…<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p
class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;fon
t-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>---<o:p></o:p></span></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Very
funny Scotty, now beam down my
clothes…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US sty
le='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>---<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p
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ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] <b>On Behalf
Of </b>Paul Gordon<br><b>Sent:</b> 03 November 2013
02:10<br><b>To:</b>
ukha_d@xxxxxxx<br><b>Subject:</b> [ukha_d] What's
currently the best box for streaming ripped DVD co
ntent?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p
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class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div
id=ygrp-mlmsg><div id=ygrp-msg><div
id=ygrp-text><p>Ok, so I'm sitting here looking at my jailbroken
Apple TV2 contstantly saying "
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 pretty much anything that isn't genuine apple, it's utter shite...
<br>The software is slow, buggy, and not a patch on the real thing...
If I could I'd just go to iTunes and pay for the damn movie (again) just to
get the media I want when I want it, but unfortunately, the Star Wars films
aren't on iTunes... They are all on my NAS of course, as ripped DVD's in
video_ts folders... So sick am I of the piss poor performance of jailbroken
kit, that I am now resolved to find another box that does this
better...<br><br>So, the question is, what *is* the best box
for streaming my own personal content? 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 do local content... Apple TV doesn't do it
without jail breaking, and doing that to it turns it int
o a pile of shite...<br><br>Surely in this day and age, it
cannot be beyond the wit of mankind to make a box that is as good as a
proper Apple TV, but which will play my ripped DVD's... Is that really so
much to
ask?<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div>
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