Re: xPLRioNet is Dead?, Long live xPLMediaNet? - xPLRioNet users please read!

["UKHA" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/03/2005 at 10:28 Malcolm Lansell wrote:

>
>I've decided to abandon the MVP - I'm fed up converting movies to mpg
>(which  takes my PC around 7 hours), and would also like to retain the

Transcoding... iirc xplrionet supports it... so you don;t have to..

>multichannel audio.

There's a very simple hardware hack so that audio is passed directly out...
take a look
at www.shspvr.com

>  I had installed Linux with the idea of rewriting the native MVP

Rather than reinventing the wheel look at what other people have already
done:

http://www.rst38.org.uk/mediamvp/
http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/idx.php?pg=main
http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/

>code, but to be honest, I hate working with Linux - it's like stepping
10
>years back in time, and you'd have to be blinded by a hatred of all
things
>Microsoft to insist it was better than Windows.  But I digress.  By the

at the risk of starting a Linux Vs Windows flamewar... I have to disagree..

You have to be blinded by continuous use of windows not to appreciate
linux,
particularly for something like this, a media server

>time
>I'd have got everything hooked up and working, the MVP would probably
be
>obsolete anyway.  I banished Linux and have been looking for an
>alternative media player.

You should probably have gone out and got yourself a chipped xbox and used
XBMC http://xboxmediacenter.de/ -
which does everything you ask and more..


>I've come to the conclusion that there is still no off-the-shelf box
>available that can do what I want - ie stream audio, pictures and DVD
>files  (with menus).  I've decided that a PC based solution is best for
me
>(quiet/fanless small form factor boards are becoming ever more
powerful).

See above...


HTH

Andy




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