Musketeer;246181 Wrote: > After a couple of months with it I can say I am extremely satisfied with > my Squeezebox 3. Probably more so than with any other piece of > electronics I have bought for a long time. It does what it does really > well. > > What is the best video equivalent to the squeezebox? I mean one that is > not in beta version 0.9, one that is second or third gen and stable. I > want one that streams most common video files (like divx) from network > storage and does it really well. AppleTV, but don't look for an equivalent of SqueezeCenter or its dev community. You'll need to cope with hacking and "unofficial" plugins if you want to avoid synching with iTunes, or keeping a computer with iTunes up. I wish Apple had created an SDK for ATV plugins but it has not happened.
Over the years, I've used pcs single and client/server, a dvico box and today I have 2 apple TVs. For ripped DVDs/720p it is matchless. Mine are rigged with an NFS automounter and a background WOL service. Don't try this on DVico-class hardware. Generally speaking I'd say PC frontends are just too noisy and messy; unless you have extensive budget and outstanding hardware integration skills. -- epoch1970 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40689 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
