On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Simon Breden <sbre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, a modded XBOX will play a lot of things but will struggle with highly > compressed streams and will fail at HD etc. The ION platform is especially > interesting as these boxes are really cheap, and you can slap Linux + XBMC on > there for free. Yes, I also hear that Plex running on a Mac Mini is good, but > they are more expensive than an ION-based box. ION can play HD apparently. > And what about Plex? I think it's a fork of XBMC. Does it have the same level > of development support as XBMC? Not sure this is the right place to discuss all that :) It is a fork of XBMC. I am not sure where it improves upon it, but I've seen it running in person, 1080p/mkv/looks gorgeous, downloads info about the movies and all sorts of great stuff. I've thought about an ION solution. Small, cheaper, etc. But XBMC on top of Windows scares me a bit. I don't consider Windows a stable foundation for anything. Linux-based XBMC ports too were annoying to try to get going a while back. Think it's better now... The normal XBOX can do 1080i at the max, and the menus/UI look great, but it struggles with mkvs and other things. It's one of those "great a few years ago" solutions. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
