Thanks for the reply... Plays Most MKV files OK?  All of my DVD's I've ripped to the VIDEO_TS Folder, but I've been playing with MKV a little bit to save on the unRAID space from the full Blu-Ray Folder rips...

 

Looks like I maybe found myself a Xmas Present...

 

Sw2

 

Just received my Popcorn Hour A-110 yesterday and so far so good. I haven't run it through its phases yet since mommy wanted to watch Pursuit of Happyness (PCH works great with DVD ISO's by the way) but it did play the handful of MKV x264 files I threw at it (mostly anime fansubs). To be safe, I would suggest using a DXVA/PS3/Xbox360-compatible profile.

Thanks... still waiting for mine...didn't get a ship notice or anything, but hope it comes this week...

Thanks... still waiting for mine...didn't get a ship notice or anything, but hope it comes this week...

 

The next batch is going out on the 18th.  They update shipping status on networkedmediatank.com

RE: 18th December 2008 Batch

 

Order taken from Dec 8, 2008 12:57:58 AM GMT+08:00

to Dec 14, 2008 11:54:16 PM GMT+08:00 will fall into this batch

 

Seriously doubt you'll get it this week... On the upside, it only took 3 days (including weekend) for it to get to my door from China so you'll probably get yours by Monday.

Not too bad I guess...as long as I get sometime next week when I will be off of work and have some time to catch up on my movie watching...

 

Wade

Came today...trying to NFS shares to work...although don't really understand the syntax...

So far...Just WOW.... I have barely scratched the surface on the user add-ons/plug-ins/skins, etc...but as far as pure just watching Movies, Blu-Ray, DVD, TV Shows, etc... it seems to pull down whatever I toss at it with no issues.... I've watches MKV, BluRay rips, DVD Rips, and all pulled with ZERO drops of any kinds... So far, I'm very happy with a $250 media player...

 

SW2

FYI XBMC has just had a huge ffmpeg update. On my large plasma with HDMI the picture is simply superb and is as easy to install as any other prog on windows.

 

I also made the library work perfectly now and with the Mediastream skin it looks phenomenal.

NAS - Thanks for the tip!  I have been using TheaterTek but may give XBMC a try based on your recommendation!  I have noticed that our PS3 playing the actual disk looks a bit better than TheaterTek playing through the HTPC.  I was going to experiment with ffdshow, but will try XBMC as well.  Will XBMC play a BluRay .ISO?

A general rule of thumb is that XBMC will play anything you throw at it and your hardware can handle. Where it gets confusing is DRM'd content but i beieve there will be no probs with the ISO.

 

Easiest way to tell is download the windows one to your desktop and try. Even if you hardware aint up for it and drops millions of frames you will still see if it works.

 

I also use my desktop to manage my library databse in XBMC and simply sync the suerdata folder to all my other instances. The library works exactly the same no matter what platform you are runing XBMC (i.e. XBOX, win32, win64, Ubuntu, AppleTV, OSX).

 

One day hen hardware costs drop enough so that 1080p is cheap XBMC will rule the land over all others IMO.

For those interested in reducing the storage requirements of Blu-ray and HD-DVD, there is a very good tool for extracting only what you want from the discs themselves.  You can get rid of everything from subtitles, extra audio tracks, etc.  It also effectively handles seamless branching titles.

 

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showthread.php?tid=1786&page=1

 

Regards,  Peter