snarlydwarf;510953 Wrote: > That and the usage model of video is entirely different than music. > > There are very few movies that I have watched more than a dozen times. > I have many many albums that I have listened to dozens of times, and > will listen to dozens of times more. > > Regardless of how cheap disk space is, and how fast bandwidth gets, I > really don't see a need to rip a DVD so I can stream it around the > house. It's easier to carry the DVD to the player I want to use. > Kids on the other hand will gladly watch the same Bob the Builder movie a gazillion times (not only that, they often insist to do so), and kids aren't exactly kind to DVDs so having a rip stored on a server could make sense. Maybe I'm a kid too, since there are a few movies I enjoy having instant access to.
Of course the database for video would need to have a different structure than the music database, but it seems to me that designing a video catalog should be a doddle compared to music. Most of the cheap media players pouring out these days are almost entirely intended for video with very poor support for music. They may handle a bunch of audio file formats just fine, but browsing, building play lists, listening to online services is severely limited or non existant. All the stuff that makes SB stand out is missing. To at least briefly touch the topic of this thread, with added support for video in the SB range it could probably compete pretty well with those boxes based just on superior support for music. My reason for thinking video could be a useful addition is that I think the SB architecture is pretty damn clever. The SBS is a formidable backend and I think a similar concept would prove to be a good solution for video also. And I'm guessing some of the chipsets used by late model media players could run SqueezeOS which I think would provide a nice and practical UI. I just don't see the conflict here. Why would the sky fall down and the world come to an end if SBS was extended to support video files and a video player was added to the line of boxes? -- alfista ------------------------------------------------------------------------ alfista's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32396 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74510 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
