[mythtv-users] Cheap HD media players

[belcampo]

Mark Wormgoor wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 19:31, Fa <fayoeu at gmail.com 
> <mailto:fayoeu at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     There are a bunch of cheap HD media players on the market.  I am
>     wondering if anyone purchased one and used it with mythtv.  So far,
>     I have been happy with the Asus OPlay HD media player.  At first I
>     used it to play from CIFS share of the recording directory with
>     scripts to do some nice symlinking to arrange the media, however
>     with the new 1.17 firmware, the upnp stuff seems to just work with
>     mythbackend.  I think for $100 it did it job well and does HD, it's
>     form factor is small and quiet.  Oh another thing, my mythtv setup
>     is using HD homerun.  Recordings can be watched on the OPlay without
>     transcording.  Also it seems to play most other formats that I throw
>     at it.  I wish it could do commercial skipping, but right now it
>     doesnt and if I want commercial skipping I just do a mpeg2->mpeg2
>     transcoding with the cutlist to remove commercials.
>      
>     Anyone have comments about other cheap HD media players?
>      
>     http://usa.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=sPkRGUeRrpiVYl5K
> 
> I've been using the Xtreamer for a couple of months now. Works fine and 
> gets the job done. I've used it via CIFS and NFS, both work as one would 
> expect. It does the job for music and videos as well. Upnp used to be 
> buggy with MP3's. in the first firmware, but I haven't tried it recently 
> - I use mythrename to setup a decent folder structure and use that to 
> browse my recordings. I use mythweb for scheduling etc. It doesn't do 
> commercial skipping, but it does have the great "skip 3 minutes/30 
> seconds forward" and "skip "1 minute/10 seconds backward" feature that I 
> loved in Mythtv and missed in other similar players.
> 
> Only caveat (for me personally) is that it doesn't support is recorded 
> DVB subtitles, but lots of other players out there don't either. 
Unless you extract the teletext-subtitles to srt with projectX, that it 
works perfectly, at least with my PCH.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Mark
> 
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