Musketeer 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. It doesn't need to have a million > other features, like music streaming and web streaming etc. > > I don't suppose you slim guys are working on a video squeezebox by any > chance?? >
Well, I wrote a videobox program for Windows once... ;) http://videobox.sourceforge.net/ > What do the rest of you use? > I'm already running a home (linux) server anyway (for slimserver etc.) so I prefer to use that for my video solution as well. The big disadvantage of using a server is that it's big and noisy (if it's a good one). This can be solved by confining it to it's own space, I have a small utility room that's well suited for that. The audio/video signal from the server is broadcast thru the house over the TV cable system (with an AV modulator). That gets the picture and audio to the TV sets. For software I use MythTV as well as mplayer and vlc. To control the MythTV/mplayer/vlc software I use my own slimserver lirc plugin. That way any squeezebox remotes keypresses are sent to the MythTV/mplayer application (whenever the SqueezeBox itself is in standby). Since I have a SqueezeBox near every TV, that completes the puzzle. It may not be a turn-key solution (MythTV is a bit of a hassle to set up) but it works very well for me in practice and I don't have all kinds of unsightly and noisy boxes around the house. In fact, I don't even have a DVD-player. ;) Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
