[ale] LInux Based Media Players

[Edward Holcroft]

My WD HD TV Live Plus arrived yesterday. $98 on Amazon.

It works as advertised. Played my DIVX, AVI and dvd iso files without a
hitch over hdmi.

Main reason I got it is 'cos I have a bunch of PAL encoded Region 2 dvd's
from before I moved to the USA. Rip them to iso and they play fine.

I never bought the wifi add-on, so cannot comment on that. My tests were all
off a USB HDD, will probably on get round to trying my NAS drive over the
weekend.

The GUI is OK, but I may try some third party firmware just for the heck of
it.

I did not see any obvious way to play mp3 over a video.

ed

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 08:18, Michael Potter <michael at potter.name> wrote:

> I am intending to buy a media player and want to give preference to
> Linux based systems.
>
> Here is the kind of thing I am looking for (except this one _seems_ to
> be windows based):
>
> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5509365&CatId=3675
>
> I don't want to build one, but having one I could hack would be a bonus.
>
> There are several definitions of media players.  The one I am looking
> for is basically a NAS drive with hdmi out.
> I put a .mp4 on the NAS drive, and it appears on the selection of
> shows to watch on the TV connected to the hdmi out.
>
> One unusual feature I hope to find is: the ability to play a video,
> but overlay the sound with a mp3.
>
> Any comments?
> --
> Michael Potter
> Replatform Technologies, LLC
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> michael at potter.name
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