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Samstag:
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--- Quote from: Samstag on January 07, 2012, 06:15:18 pm ---It's only a little bit more complicated than inserting a shiny disc right-side up in a tray.
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If the hardware and software existed to do what he wants... but it doesn't. Your options are to hook up a computer, get a roku and hope and pray that it supports the formats you are using... or just use a bluray player.
Or you know... don't pirate your media. As I said, all the commercial video services have their own tv apps and they work just fine. In addition, most of your major streaming media websites also have their own apps and they work. If you "don't do laser media" then you are either buying it from these services or pirating it. I'm not judging at all, I'm just saying....
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There's not a single true statement in your entire post. Do you seriously believe this or are you just trolling?
Vanguard:
Boxee will do exactly what you want. Nice and small too. It will pull over the network and supports just about every format:
Supported formats/codecs:
Physical media: CDs, DVDs, Video CDs (including DVD-Video, VCD/SVCD and Audio-CD/CDDA)
Container formats: AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, FLV, MKV, MOV, MP4, M4A, AAC, NUT, Ogg, OGM, RealMedia RAM/RM/RV/RA/RMVB, 3gp, VIVO, PVA, NUV, NSV, NSA, FLI, FLC, and DVR-MS (beta support)
Video codecs: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 (SP and ASP, including DivX, XviD, 3ivx, DV, H.263), MPEG-4 AVC (H.264, including Nero Digital), HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, RealVideo, QuickTime, Sorenson, WMV, Cinepak,
Audio codecs: AIFF, WAV/WAVE, MP2, MP3, AAC, AACplus, AC3, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Monkey's Audio (APE), RealAudio, SHN, WavPack, MPC/Musepack/Mpeg+, Speex, Vorbis and WMA.
Digital picture/image formats: BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, MNG, ICO, PCX and Targa/TGA
Subtitle formats: AQTitle, ASS/SSA, CC, JACOsub, MicroDVD, MPsub, OGM, PJS, RT, SMI, SRT, SUB, VOBsub, VPlayer
newmanfamilyvlogs:
I used to use a fullblown PC for media streaming on the TV, but then I gave this a try:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136593
they make one with a built-in harddrive also.
whammoed:
I ended up using Google TV with a Sony Blu Ray player that has it built in. I purchased the GTVBox app for $1.99 and I don't even need a DLNA server. It can play my files over network shares. This thing also has a "full" Chrome browser built in. Full is in quotes because some sites will block video from playing like the free Hulu streaming. It also allows me to do picture in picture using my cable TV so I can keep a show playing and start up an app on Google TV at the same time. Logitech also has a Google TV device if you don't need a blu ray player. I wanted both so I went with the Sony.
shmokes:
I think jailbreaking an Apple TV 2 is the sweet spot right now. It only does 720p, but that's fine for now, especially if you're downloading ripped media. In addition to having access to all the paid content from the iTunes store for buying/renting, you can install XBMC on it and it'll do all the things you want better than anything else out there. Also the thing is about the size of a hockey puck. And it's $100, which is tough to beat.
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