Any discussion on a PCH and XBMC would be incomplete without taking a look at a TViX (dvico.com).
If you want to stream 1080p material, you need to consider the encoding - mpeg2 is relatively easy, while h264 and VC1 are very processor intensive. You are only looking at 20mbps which isn't that much for any decent 100mb connection. What I have found is that the processor on the device can choke on blu-ray material (I think the term is something like h264 level 4.1). If you want HD, the device must have a Sigma Designs SMP8635. If you want to rip blu-ray disks check out Anydvd HD (slysoft.com). Personally, I own 5 Squeezeboxen and two Tvix players (a 5000 and a 4100 - I need to get a 6500). They compliment each other nicely - one is awesome for music, the other is awesome for video. I actually use two different computers (one for music, and one for video), but one could do the job just fine. -- hoosier ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hoosier's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13116 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57710 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
