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

By: aussieburger

aussieburger — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:53:52 +0000

Still no x264 codec support :(

the wait continues …

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:41:02 +0000

I looked at one of these about a year ago, it didn’t support nearly as many formats back then, this is a vast improvement over the previous versions.

Yes formats, not containers…

H.264/X.264 and MOV are MPEG, MKV and AVI are DivX/XviD, OGG is FLAC.

Wikipedia is your friend.

By: Colin Dean

Colin Dean — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:22:40 +0000

The last Mvix DMA I used had a horrible menu system that was laggy, unattractive, and unintuitive. It completely ignored any shred of usability. I hope that Mvix has remedied this.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:11:48 +0000

[quote comment="267453"]It looks good.

I like the ability to support DVD ISOs.

Like most people, Im burning all my DVD “back ups” before I can watch them on my TV.

Last year, I used close to 350 DVDs (between me and the ones my friends were given).

It would be nice to not have to burn ones for me. That would save me 200 DVDs a year, at least.

With DVDs being $0.15 each, and DL-DVDs being $0.50, thats significant savings. Maybe over the course of 10 years it would pay for itself! lol[/quote]

um, a 1 TB hard drive would cost you upwards of $250
which means each gig is about $.25.
which means each movie you burned would be a little over a dollar.
which means it would be cheaper to burn them to physical DVDs, for archival purposes.

so stop complaining.

By: say592

say592 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:14:33 +0000

It looks good.

I like the ability to support DVD ISOs.

Like most people, Im burning all my DVD “back ups” before I can watch them on my TV.

Last year, I used close to 350 DVDs (between me and the ones my friends were given).

It would be nice to not have to burn ones for me. That would save me 200 DVDs a year, at least.

With DVDs being $0.15 each, and DL-DVDs being $0.50, thats significant savings. Maybe over the course of 10 years it would pay for itself! lol

By: Superior1

Superior1 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:40:23 +0000

[quote comment="267314"]avi mkv are containers not codecs[/quote]
iso or VOB are not codecs either. They mention “formats”, not codecs.

Like many others here I’m amazed that there seems no support (or not yet anyway) for AVC/x264, which would not be so hard to implement, since there are open source libraries for it.

And no, MPEG is not .MPEG, it’s usually contained as .mpg or .avi
Also, mkv does not require mp4 or x264 either.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:30:03 +0000

I would have to agree that most .avi,s are divx or xvid. More and more newer ones are becoming x264 though. Every aXXo rip I have is xvid in an .avi container. Plus what is wrong with XBMC. That plays just about every format under the sun as long as it isn’t HD. Plus you can pick up a regular xbox to run it on for like $80 at gamestop or cheaper on ebay. Supports streaming from PC as well.

By: um ya

um ya — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:27:27 +0000

[quote comment="267384"][quote comment="267380"]most .avi are either DivX of XviD…[/quote]
No. They are MPEG or x264.[/quote]
Still wrong, MPEG is MPEG & x264 is mkv…

But I’m bummed for no h264, x264, mov & mp4 support along with no FLAC support…

By: Superior1

Superior1 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:45:59 +0000

[quote comment="267380"]most .avi are either DivX of XviD…[/quote]
No. They are MPEG or x264.

By: woot

woot — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:41:03 +0000

most .avi are either DivX of XviD…

By: Superior1

Superior1 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:28:42 +0000

[quote comment="267314"][quote comment="267269"]No support for .avi or .mkv ? WTF? In what age are these people living?[/quote]

avi mkv are containers not codecs[/quote]So? They mention containers in the specs, except for those.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:04:29 +0000

well they can’t be perfect, there taking a risk as it is trying this, tons of people have no idea how bittorent works or wat it is.

By: bob

bob — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:03:03 +0000

there is no need for flac support
only oink elitist use flac on a regular playing basis
The rest of us use it how it was ment
to ARCHIVE music

By: ano

ano — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:57:42 +0000

[quote comment="267269"]No support for .avi or .mkv ? WTF? In what age are these people living?[/quote]

avi mkv are containers not codecs

By: Superior1

Superior1 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:54:25 +0000

No support for .avi or .mkv ? WTF? In what age are these people living?

By: I think

I think — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:50:36 +0000

No support for FLAC or MKV!

This is a shame, they are behind the times therefore as usual streaming from my pc remains the primary option over these types of devices, a step in the right direction though.

By: serrebi

serrebi — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:49:28 +0000

awsom,

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:18:33 +0000

Price? I see the similar MX-760HD goes for $329.99

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:15:55 +0000

That’s interesting… I never thought of how an industry of P2P media centers would pop up from Bittorrent until now. Actually I never would’ve connected the two together (P2P and Media Center) if I hadn’t saw this earlier.

See where the competition takes us….

By: fr3ak

fr3ak — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:08:36 +0000

… but still no x264 containers, where’s the native mkv or mp4 support. bleh.

By: 2

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:06:08 +0000

SECOND

By: Elliott99

Elliott99 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:54:16 +0000

Nice!