Announcement XMS888 firmware v1.2

[Scaramouche]

Overall iam considering selling my Trio-628 and building my own PC based standalone. there are heaps of nice mini ITX cases which look great and would be perfect.

Benefits of this..

- Future proof as PC based system is totally configurable
- Support superior containers such as OGG, Matroska, MP4
- Support future codec improvements & features
- No longer at the mercy of china for firmware updates
- Totally configurable Post processing options to inmprove playback quality

Cons
- The cost.. you can do it dirt cheap but it will look like hammered shit. If you want it to look good, you got to pay for a good looking case.
- Noise of fans - unless you pay for a silent system

[andw]

1.3 any closer?

[davidf]

Overall iam considering selling my Trio-628 and building my own PC based standalone. there are heaps of nice mini ITX cases which look great and would be perfect.


There are also plenty of nice mini-atx cases and mini atx motherboards at least allow a faster processor than itx. I think the multimedia PC is really the way to go and especially now that there are a few frebee linux multimedia centre programs around. For about double the price of a MPeg4 player you can build one hell of a media centre (remote controlled even).

[erk]

Any word on .mp4 support? I use Openshiiva to make .mp4 files on the Mac, I tried one and it was not recognised.

[andw]

....For about double the price of a MPeg4 player you can build one hell of a media centre (remote controlled even).
Hi davidf, do you know of any reasonably priced remote controls for pc's, that allow you to map the buttons to keys or something like that.
(I'm thinking of how you could control something like BSPlayer by remote, and it would seem mapping the remote buttons to the keyboard keys would be the easiest way)