I have noted this before in other posts, I am a strong believer in the TViX player. Just like I think the SB is the greatest thing in audio, the TViX is great for video. You can do full Blu-Ray quality 1080P playback on the 6500 (sigma 8635) and you can do fairly decent h264 playback on the 4100 (sigma 8623 - but has been discontinued). It will play an ISO file just like you put a DVD in a player (they call it DVD Jukebox). The 6500 currently can't handle BluRay menu structure - it can only play the files if you rip them.
The OP makes some good points. All of the media players available have horrible GUIs (except XBMC - but it can't do 1080P). It would be fantastic to have a hook into the interface. It shouldn't be a big deal as I think the players could easily be open source. The TViX is based on a Linux kernel, and the code is available at the company site - so it is actually open source. I just don't think there are too many developers working on it though. I really think a critical mass is building for streaming video players as I am accumulating a lot of AVCHD files from my HiDef camcorder, and not every video player can handle AVCHD (my TVIX 4100 has no problems). People are going to want to stream their home movies, and in my opinion that is the driver that will push this technology to the mainstream like the SB. I can't help but wonder what nvida's ION will do in this area. -- hoosier ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hoosier's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13116 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62047 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
