jmanings wrote: > Excuse the off topic thread, but recent posts on these here have got me > interested.... > > Im considering buying one of these 2...anyone care to give me some > pro's/cons on wach and how they compare? > > Let me say that I am leaning towards the Apple TV initially because I > want it for video only (SB3 is far better for music), I already use > itunes for video, movies, I have a Ipod touch (ipeng rules!) and > converting to MGEG 4 dosent bother me. The built in hard drive makes it > nice, when you dont want to turn on your pc. > > Also video quality does not need to be perfect, as a;ot of what I use > is home video that we shoot and encode ourselves. The quality is not > ultra high quality in this > > Thanks in advance for the suggestions. > >
You didn't say anything about Popcorn Hour (aka Network Media Tank) and how you wanted to use it. I'll assume you are asking in the context of SqueezeCenter. Right now PCH does not have a SqueezeCenter client. There is an application with a nice graphical interface that controls SqueezeCenter clients (kind-of looks like slimroku's GUI). But that's about it. The problem w/PCH is that "they" haven't released any (much) information as to how to interface with their drivers. You are left with the built in audio/video player which takes over the PCH box during play back. I can't imagine this working well for SqueezeCenter (i.e. no browsing during play back, no fast forward, limited remote control over the web, ect...). The NMT's build in Linux/Syabas based software is more of a UPNP client. So, you would probably be better off running something like Swiscenter or Wizd then SqueezeCenter for serving up your media. --- Have you thought about throwing in the towel and just building a dual core multimedia mythtv box? You could then run the mythsqueeze plug in and have plenty of power for what ever else you might be thinking about (HDTV hint hint). --- If you are iPod centric I don't think you really have a choice. BTW, I know people who went that route and now use their Apple TV instead of their SB. Just FYI. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
