Comments on: New Mvix Media Center Includes BitTorrent Client

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[...] New Mvix Media Center Includes BitTorrent Client [...]

By: noone

noone — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:11:58 +0000

sure – google for popcorn hour a-100 or check out the hdx 900 at http://www.hdx1080.com

There are a couple of other boxes based on the same platform.

By: anyone

anyone — Sun, 18 May 2008 06:57:10 +0000

any of you guys know where to buy a nas that does support HDMI(output),Bittorrent client, and x264?

By: Kane

Kane — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:01:21 +0000

“Oddly enough, there are no media centers that come with a built in BitTorrent client. Strange”

How is that strange?
Apart from the fact networking support is the exception rather than the role with media players, your article mentions no way in which you can use said BT client.

Unplug your mouse and see how useful your PC-based BT client is. How hair-pullingly mind-fuckingly annoying it is to use.

How’s this any more desirable when we remove the keyboard from the equation as well ?

By: pro

pro — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:14:11 +0000

A NMT http://www.popcornhour.com looks a better option

By: usenet

usenet — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:54:07 +0000

everyone is hanging out on the usenet and NEWSGROUPS, go there and police that along with the torrent sites

By: usenet

usenet — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:53:04 +0000

torrent sites blow, USENET still exist , there are tns of ways of gettign whatever you want if you do some research

By: shhh

shhh — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:25:59 +0000

Shhh… Usenet doesn’t exist anymore, remember?

By: Meh811

Meh811 — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:16:47 +0000

Wow that’s butt ugly

Usenet support would be nice, BT speeds can be ridiculously low

BT is still the poor man’s Usenet :P

By: b

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:55:49 +0000

Wow, formats aside, this is a great innovation.

Though what I’d most likely to see is a portable MP3 (and/or Ogg, AAC, FLAC, whatever) player with built-in mesh wireless support. Share songs with everyone in the vicinity.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:51:26 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg

(top right side of that screen)

Container for: Vorbis, Theora, Speex, FLAC, Dirac, and others.

By: lulz

lulz — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:27:59 +0000

#26 vorbis is not a company, the whole thing belongs to the xiph foundation. Ogg is a container, vorbis, theora, flac, speex are codecs.

By: Brano

Brano — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:20:46 +0000

XBMC forever. ppl who knows…they just laugh :)

By: BongWizard

BongWizard — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:05:55 +0000

I guess I should have noted in that post above that the FFmpeg codec comprises both MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 algorithms.

By: ERROR404

ERROR404 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:04:42 +0000

@ 21: FUCK WIKIPEDIA !

By: BongWizard

BongWizard — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:03:45 +0000

ok for all the idiots here that dont know the difference between a codec and a container, i am going to explain this to you.

A container is the file format (ie the file extension) that is used for the storage of media files. Aptly named, you can think of a container file as the box that holds your data.

A codec, on the other hand, is the program which is used to encode, compress, order, and eventually play the data in said media files. Codec is short for coder-decoder or compressor-decompressor, and, in essence, it does just that.

Some examples of popular containers and codecs are given below.

Containers: 3GP, AVI, ASF, MPEG, MKV, IFF, MP4, RM, MOV (notice all of these are file extensions)

Video Codecs: DivX, FFmpeg, RealVideo, XviD, x264 (this is the codec, h.264 is the algorithm, don’t get confused), WMV (which is also a container using the WMV algorithm… Microsoft just can’t come up with more names)

Audio Codecs: AAC, AC3, MP3 (again, this is a container aswell), FLAC, WMA (another example of Microsoft’s lack of creativity)

So anyways, no that I’ve got that out of the way, I just hope this thing has a BT client with streaming support, because it sounds like it’s gonna be running a custom client. The codecs (and containers) can be fixed easily enough, but if you change the built-in client, shit ain’t gonna work right.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:50:26 +0000

#21, you are an idiot.

flac is contained by ogg, not the other way around.
vorbis is the parent company.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:17:39 +0000

No .rar support.

XBMC ftw!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:03:20 +0000

@22

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:22:52 +0000

http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/?title=XBMC_Features_and_Supported_Formats/Codecs