[ILUG] Media player hardware recommendation

[Gareth 'bigbro' Eason]

I use a Netgear EVA 2000+ or some such number. Requires UPnP (not NFS) but mediatomb on the server works well.

Doesn't meet all your requirements but is small, cheap, quiet and plays most media.

Best regards,
-->Gar

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Gareth Eason

On 24 Apr 2011, at 09:41 p.m., Ronan Mullally <ronan at iol.ie> wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Brendan Minish wrote:
> 
>> I too am looking for something like this. Ideally something that can
>> mount an NFS share and manage to make sense of all (most..) common video
>> formats and output on HDMI appropriately scaled to 1080p .
>> A remote is a must
>> I don't need local file storage (or a fan..) and I already have the NFS
>> share.
> 
> A bit of googling this evening turned up TrimSlice
> (http://www.trimslice.com/) from Compulab, the manufacturers of the
> Fit-PC.  It's a dual core ARM which appears to have the edge on the Fit-PC
> (Atom) in terms of performance.  The only thing it hasn't got is IR, but
> that can be added with a USB dongle.
> 
> The only other thing it hasn't got (yet) is widespread distro support.
> Getting your favorite flavour to run on it (particularly X drivers) any
> time soon may take a little bit of persuasion.  Oh, and it's not shipping
> yet...
> 
> 
> -Ronan
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