There was another thread roaming around these parts regarding the building of a new frontend for HD playback...<br><br>I'll be building a new Myth Frontend before Christmas. (Hopefully next week) It will include a Zotac MB with a Dual core Atom @ 1.6Ghz, but I won't be using Minimyth. For now it'll all run off of a CF card with a SATA to CF adapter. After I get this built, I'll look into Minimyth. I actually didn't know about that distro until I read this thread, so thanks! :)<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Andrew Kohlsmith (Mailing List Account) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aklists@mixdown.ca">aklists@mixdown.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On November 26, 2009 01:39:06 pm Adam Glauser wrote:<br>
> My main concern with any sort of black-box media centre would be codec<br>
> and file format support. One of the neat things that XBMC does is read<br>
> ISO disc image files directly. If I have some DVDs that I want to put<br>
> on a NAS instead of loading the disc each time, I don't have to fool<br>
> around with removing the menus and all that business, just dd the whole<br>
> thing to a .iso file. I would be surprised if the players you saw do that.<br>
<br>
</div>It's funny, my biggest concern with black-box frontend is commercial skip and<br>
mythtv compatibility.<br>
<br>
So far none of them are up to task. I bought a little MG-800HD from Canada<br>
Computers for $300. It's a very nice little unit and works with Myth much<br>
better than my brother's Popcorn Hour did, but in the end it was sub-par. Myth<br>
has titles and subtitles for recordings, but it only displayed titles. So,<br>
for example, you'd see 5 "CBC News Now" but no date, no subtitle or byline.<br>
Totally useless.<br>
<br>
Superb video though... full 1080p, a nice little form factor... but difficult<br>
menuing and the standard "you will watch media how WE decide you will"<br>
mentality. It went back the next day.<br>
<br>
Minimyth on a little Atom+ION system sounds like it's gonna be the bee's knees<br>
for me.<br>
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-A.<br>
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