[mythtv-users] Cheap HD media players
belcampo
belcampo at zonnet.nl
Fri Jan 1 23:00:27 UTC 2010
belcampo wrote:
> 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.
In the list you can find a 'cutlist to chapter script'. By putting your
dvb file with the chapter-file from named script in an mkv container you
can easily skip the commercials.
>>
>> 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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