Structaural
in Chatsubo
Interesting, how come you don't need a media player with that? I thought it needed a PS3 or something...
Boxee, Apple TV, Xbox Media Center, etc: your suggestions on media networking your house/flat?
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Kid_Eternity
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What TV do you have?
Mapped
London town
How does yours handle subtitles on MKV's? I need to look for files with hardcoded subs as that's the only problem with my Samsung. I'm not sure if there's a firmware update that sorts it, because I haven't bothered to update it.
Crispy
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Just fine. I have Princess Mononoke in MKV, with ENG, JAP, ES subtitles and ENG, JAP soundtracks. All are freely accessible and I can change between them on the fly as the movie plays. I have updated my TV to the latest firmware.
Mapped
London town
Cheers Crispy
Mines an older model than yours, but I'll try a firmware update to see if it sorts it.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Hmmm, have just read this thread and things are clear as mud.
Can some say in non techy language what to buy to get the films on my USB hard drive onto my tv? I don't want to configure anything, I don't want to tweak anything.
Anyone using words like codec or transcode will be shot.
Can some say in non techy language what to buy to get the films on my USB hard drive onto my tv? I don't want to configure anything, I don't want to tweak anything.
Anyone using words like codec or transcode will be shot.
Crispy
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Buy the WD box in Bob2009's post. Plug your HD into it. Job done.
ETA: Assuming you have a HD TV with HDMI socket.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Cool
What does the Boxee thing do that this one doesn't, other than win "most stupid design"?
Crispy
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More whizzy interface. It automatically sorts your videos by TV series etc. Pulls synopsis and cover art and cast/crew information from IMDB, has multiple plugins for internet video (youtube, vimeo, iplayer, 4OD etc etc).Cool
What does the Boxee thing do that this one doesn't, other than win "most stupid design"?
The WD box just plays files from a folder list and has a more limited set of internet services.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Hmmm, we've got iPlayer on our Wii but 4OD would be cool. Looking at the Boxee site it seems to imply it can stream loads of films and tv shows without me having to (illegally) download them. Is this right, or am I misunderstanding things?
Crispy
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Both the Boxee and the WD Live have access to online TV and Movie rental/purchase services. Their catalgogues vary in breadth and quality. Hulu is great but only available in the USA - loads of free TV with adverts at the start of the programme. The boxee can be made to access iplayer and 4OD, but not "out of the box" IIRC.
Ranbay
The same rules apply
The WD can do that also, you just need this
http://wdtvhubgen.codeplex.com/
and they add more and more services to it all the time, Internet radio, movie rental and facebook, spotify etc... theres 22 services on there right now, there was 15 when i bought it.
Crispy
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Yeah, but that requires editing on a computer with a 3rd party app. The Boxee "just works"
Boxee still has more internet services - iplayer for starters.
For just playing downloaded movie files, the WD is a great box at a great price.
editor
hiraethified
There's Boxee apps for both iPlayer HD and regular and it's as easy to install as an app on a phone. In fact, I'm pretty sure it was pre-installed on the model I had.
Crispy
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Excellent - sounds like the situation's improved since I last tried it out
4OD still requires some hacking about, if google is to be believed
Structaural
in Chatsubo
My TV has a built-in media player. DNLA means it finds the NAS box automatically and diplays the list of folders that I set up in the NAS box's config. Select a file and it plays
Nice.
My old Phillips plasma can't do that.
The one they have here at work can play movies straight off a USB stick (not many codecs supported though), I guess that's the same thing.
Crispy
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Plex requires the Plex media server, which is a mac app and intel-only. However, it has been ported to the intel-powered Qnap NAS boxes. Still in experimental beta, so not recommended imo.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Its also on the ready nas along with cllients for the 2 download networks i use
http://www.readynas.com/?p=5523
http://www.readynas.com/?p=5523
Crispy
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Must mean the ReadyNAS is intel too
Does the Plex client for ATV require transcoding on the server end? Cos you'd need a high-end model of the ReadyNAS to get enough CPU grunt. The low-end model (RNDP2000) only has a 1.8GHz Atom - and that starts at £319 without any drives.
Does the Plex client for ATV require transcoding on the server end? Cos you'd need a high-end model of the ReadyNAS to get enough CPU grunt. The low-end model (RNDP2000) only has a 1.8GHz Atom - and that starts at £319 without any drives.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Yeah that was what im worried about, the test said a readynas 6 is what they used and it was fine, but that obviously has 6 bays, I only need 2, and i think the readynas 2 has a slower processor....
at the moment I use my mac pro as the media server, which transcodes more than fast enough, but I havent got anything slower to test it on.
at the moment I use my mac pro as the media server, which transcodes more than fast enough, but I havent got anything slower to test it on.
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