Any recomendations for an HD media player ?

[Deleted User]

The D-Link DSM-330 will play .mkv and pretty much everything else.

aliEnRIK

JUNIOR wrote: »

Dosent play a (Media )file over 4gig:rolleyes: although i might be mistaken

You can burn one onto a dual layer disc and play it. Or even copy it to the playstations hard drive to play it from there
(And im trying to get my computer to stream but struggling at the mo)

JUNIOR

aliEnRIK wrote: »

You can burn one onto a dual layer disc and play it. Or even copy it to the playstations hard drive to play it from there
(And im trying to get my computer to stream but struggling at the mo)

I was under the impression High Def files over 4gb could not be transfered to the ps3 hdd due to it being fat32.

aliEnRIK

JUNIOR wrote: »

I was under the impression High Def files over 4gb could not be transfered to the ps3 hdd due to it being fat32.

Me too. But the drives NOT FAT 32! (I too thought it was)
It was only yesterday that I copied a full 7.5 (ish) gig film to my drive (and a 6.5 gig one too)
Sony do there own formatting (pass on what it is ~ but its NOT normal)

Biglad_UK

I ( and now 7 friends ) have the popcorn hour device and swear by it.

It's very versatile and due to the newer chipset it can handle MKV files up to 1080p no sweat. It will play pretty much all file formats known to man or beast and there's a thriving support forum for it.

I can't recommend this device enough and would happy provide you with any answers to questions you might have. This device not only plays anything from either locally or off a network share but it also has a Usenet & Torrent client for downloading stuff while your PC is off.

Don't be fooled into thinking most media players will play MKV ( the standard for HD material like .AVI is the standard for SD material ) because they can't, there are only a few devices that are capable of this.

Si

aliEnRIK

Good call Biglad ~ I have to convert all my Matroskas to work on my PS3

gaming_guy

JUNIOR wrote: »

I was under the impression High Def files over 4gb could not be transfered to the ps3 hdd due to it being fat32.

its the external drives that need to be formatted in fat32 for the ps3 to 'see' them.

stormyrider

anewhope wrote: »

The D-Link DSM-330 will play .mkv and pretty much everything else.

Thanks for the link for this. Interesting stuff. Just been reading up on it:
trustedreviews.com/multimedia/review/2008/01/08/D-Link-DSM-330-/p1

Looks good although I'm still unconvinced by Wireless streaming HD stuff. It looks like it displays 720p and not 1080p but I'm just being picky. Having read the Amazon reviews, some prefer the Popcorn product which this must compete with although this is cheaper (and easier to get hold of).

For us non-techies it still looks a bit daunting though (router connectivity/signal strength issues/plugins etc) - if ATMT could just get the HD version of the media player out to market I'd be all over it at the right price as it suits my need for simplicity.

[Deleted User]

I think streaming of high def content wirelessly is always going to be a flakey experience and is better suited to being hardwired.

Biglad_UK

stormyrider wrote: »

Thanks for the link for this. Interesting stuff. Just been reading up on it:
trustedreviews.com/multimedia/review/2008/01/08/D-Link-DSM-330-/p1

Looks good although I'm still unconvinced by Wireless streaming HD stuff. It looks like it displays 720p and not 1080p but I'm just being picky. Having read the Amazon reviews, some prefer the Popcorn product which this must compete with although this is cheaper (and easier to get hold of).

For us non-techies it still looks a bit daunting though (router connectivity/signal strength issues/plugins etc) - if ATMT could just get the HD version of the media player out to market I'd be all over it at the right price as it suits my need for simplicity.

The great thing about the flexibility of the popcorn player is it can be as easy or as complicated as you want it to be.....Just like a windows computer, you can just turn it on and use it which is perfectly adequate for most or customize it to death for optimal ease of use.... In the simplest form, you can copy files to it's hard drive or use the simple menu's to connect to things like shared drives on computers/NAS devices etc etc and just watch them or you can go to town and use movie jukebox interfaces to show album artwork/movies information.

The popcorn hour also has built in content to allow to browse and watch YouTube,flker,Apple Movies trailers and loads more

As for streaming, some people have some success with streaming wirelessly but in my experience Wired Ethernet is the only way to stream TrueHD movies of say 10gb in size.....smaller SD stuff or small TV programs are a different story.

Si