On Oct 22, 2011 1:47 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I hear this complaint often, and it's mostly garbage (sorry). Here's the reality: MS isn't the one pushing hard on DRM (that would be stuff like Itunes). And, MS has made themselves open enough that using MKV or other containers work very well.. far better then in any software I've found; and it's add-on friendly nature works. > > DRM is a staple of technologies like BluRay, Netflix, VoD, CableCards, etc. So, MS supports those. Which is OK, because I tend to want those as part of my media center.
Ripped media has no DRM. > Media Player Classic is cool to watch videos with. It is completely NOT wife friendly, and setting up easy commands or a video wall with MPC is not possible. VLC is, frankly, crap. It uses outdated FFDShow, has absolutely no intent to support LAV, will not bitstream HD audio codecs, and does a really crappy job of showing what it does support. I mean, I suppose it's cool for the days when I worried about DVDs ripped to shitty DiVX, but hell, I'll store DVDs in ISO because 9GB is nothing. Sideline content, and those I mentioned in passing as what I use to play content on pc vs. ms pc players, not set-top use. > > I have a pair of PS3s in the house, and their media services do work for DLNA/etc. But navigating through terrabytes of shows & movies? I can dial up MediaBrowser in media center, and tell it "show me every movie with Forrest Whitacker" and it will hunt my movie archive, anything upcoming on cable, tv shows.. whatever. And I can pick with a remote control and instantly chose from a wall of movie posters or TV show banners. That's intuitive. Nice except that means you have to have a windows based htpc as client and have pre-indexed all your rips for content & storage location. Add in the cable Card and dvr, and you're not talking DLNA nor just streaming which I thought was the topic here? > > I get the whiplash against DRM. But a media center isn't really a media center to me unless it can record TV, relay it to multiple rooms, etc. Right now, in my MCE, I have 12 tuners (Footlong/TunerSalad) 2 Ceton CableCard tuners (8) and 2 Analog cable, 2 QAM. So, technically, I can record 11 shows, watch another, or whatever. I put aside 3TB to TV storage.. and thanks to CableCard, I had the option last night to record StarZ "Boss" (which turned out to be very good) while I watched SuperNatural on QAM and recorded Blue Bloods elsewhere to watch on Sunday. > Great zip your pants back up now. That's beyond streaming some iso & mkv content with a plethora of cheap set-top solutions and I doubt MS is the only player in the game. Ultimately you also missed my point about microsoft and drm was about the bloatware running on my pc starting a few versions back under xp which led to the rise of MPC & their ilk to combat it. I don't run DRM content through my machine, why have it installed? If you still don't know what I a referring to read a bit. > I guess that's the thing.. I get the frustration; but to me, a media center isn't a media center unless all of it comes together. Thanks to plugins, I can search everything everywhere and "bam" get an answer. Plugins like Media Browser, MyTV, SecondRunTV, Netflix.. pretty much anything I want is there. > > But, again, it's all about what you're after. I see your point, I would find my solution for those additional features elsewhere, netflix runs on natively on everything already so that's a non sequitur. > > > > > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:58:15 -0700, Joshua MacCraw wrote: >> >> I don't like microsoft philosophy on drm thus I have not loaded any of their >> newer players and I always use a third party player like media player >> classic or VLC on my pc's. I follow the same philosophy about their >> marketing hyped crap DVR dvr system. >> >> You do not need a console to use PMS, it's a dnla standard compliant server >> that was originally written to support PS3. TVERSITY is another. Both are >> freeware & opensource that run on PC. >> On Oct 22, 2011 12:48 PM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Why? MC works well. I don't own a game console.
