All I know is that I wish I never bought my DSM-520. It claims it will do HD, but I've never tried it (I don't have any HD tv's so that's not an issue for me). It wouldn't work with my wireless network (or at least not reliably). I ran a hard line, and it works fine when it works. I had the system running well for a while, and then a firmware update made files that worked before the update no longer work. It's sketchy depending on what UPnP server you use. I used twonkymedia (until the trial period lapsed) and it worked fairly well. twonky was sketchy though, and I wasn't about to pay $40 for sketchy open source software, so I moved on to uShare. This worked fairly well. Very simple CLI, and the only issue was that my .mp4 movies were delivered to my DSM-520 as audio files. I changed the file extension to .mov and they worked fine. I then got my MythTV setup working. This has mixed results when working with my DSM-520. The DSM-520 is quite sensitive to file formats. It will not play certain encodings. To maintain compatibility with my DSM-520, I had to turn transcoding off. Also, when I try to play .mp4 files, I get a message that the file type is not supported. Since I've played the same files on the unit, and the only thing that changed was the UPnP server (MythTV) I know that is not an issue with the DSM-520, but it is a compatibility issue with Myth.
<br><br>My DSM-520 cost almost $200 (about a year ago), and my latest myth frontend cost me $150 (to buy an old 1.6ghz P4 IBM Netvista, Geforce fx5200, and 1 gig of ram). I am much MUCH happier with a real myth frontend compared to my DSM-520. I would advise anyone looking at a DSM-XXX to use with a myth system to avoid it and to simply build a "real" myth frontend.
<br><br>But that's just my $.02 <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">A JM</b> <<a href="mailto:vbtalent@gmail.com">vbtalent@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Matthew,<br><br>May I ask what version you are running? D-Link has an HD version coming out soon... <a href="http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=547" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=547</a> anybody know anything about it?
<br><br>AJM,<br><br><br>
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