Security update for Xvid

[DereX888]

Actually, the hot thing today, is not the standalone disc players, but standalone media players. Especially those nmt solutions (WDTV, PopCorn Hour, eGrate, etc). Since I got my Popcorn Hour, I use much less my DVD standalone player.

Those standalone media players already play mkv / mp4 / H264. Actually, they base their success on this specific fact: They support mkv!
Also, don't forget cell phones: Many of them can playback H264. The new trend (which I do it myself) is use them as playback H264 devices and connect them on TVs. You don't have quality, but it is for uses you don't care about quality. Younger people today use more and more those alternatives.

All those devices of course, playback also XviD. But I don't know someone that have then and still choose xvid over h264....

I wanted to ask earlier, somehow I forgot.

Why do you need any of those? (popcorn hour, egrate - whatever they are I don't know, I'm just assuming they are some network streaming proprietary apps).
You don't need any special software or special "media players". Playing files stored on one networked device to another one (PC-> PC) always worked even in the Windows 95 times...

I'm always laughing at all idiots buying i.e. "Windows Home Server" or such garbage, like they are so dumb that they never knew they can set shared video folder or drive or even entire computer on their home network (and do so completely without any DRM-infection whatsoever) and watch files from one computer on another one... or like they wouldn't have Task Scheduler in every Windoze to set scheduled backups... They need WMP to scan all networked computers for shared audiovideo files for them, because theyre too stupid to do it manually? Too lazy to click 3 times? I don't know.

[jagabo]

I wanted to ask earlier, somehow I forgot.

Why do you need any of those? (popcorn hour, egrate - whatever they are I don't know, I'm just assuming they are some network streaming proprietary apps).

Because they are watching on TV, not a computer. Buying a computer to watch video on TV will cost several hundred dollars. The WDTV costs about $100 and maybe another $100 for a USB hard drive. The Popcorn hour can access their home network shares directly via wired or wireless networking. (Actually, so can the WDTV with mod firmware and a USB network adapter.)

[DereX888]

I wanted to ask earlier, somehow I forgot.

Why do you need any of those? (popcorn hour, egrate - whatever they are I don't know, I'm just assuming they are some network streaming proprietary apps).

Because they are watching on TV, not a computer. Buying a computer to watch video on TV will cost several hundred dollars. The WDTV costs about $100 and maybe another $100 for a USB hard drive. The Popcorn hour can access their home network shares directly via wired or wireless networking. (Actually, so can the WDTV with mod firmware and a USB network adapter.)

Thx for explanation, but FYI: you don't need multi-core gazillion gigabyter box with multiple videocards to be able to hook it up to tv and watch videos!

[RabidDog]

Xvid encode (on say C2D 2.6) approx 1-1.5x real time (1.5gb)
X264 encode (on say C2D 2.6) approx 6x real-time (1.0gb)++
Not worth the extra time. IMO. Plus if somebody wants to borrow it

God, I hate those Fake Morons even more :P

[SatStorm]

DereX888, I use Popcorn hour for watching videos on my TV. It does an excellent job on playback them, do nice on upscaling them to 1080p when that is needed, it is small, it has a remote, etc.
It's like a DVD standalone player, that playback anything. I can even watch BluRay if I connect a USB BluRay Rom - No menus etc, just the movie.

Also, I use it as a torrent client, as an emule client and rapidshare downloader. That way, I don't have to have a PC open all the time.

Because of my popcorn hour, I pay 20 euros less per month for power supply. The cost of my A100, is 169 euros: In 8 months, I have my money back just from the money I earn because of the less power supply.

I can use it also for web radio, basic web tv and as an external device to store broadcasts from my Dreambox DM800.

[VirtualDoobMon]

JVC's XV-BP1 plays H264 with MKV

[jagabo]

JVC's XV-BP1 plays H264 with MKV

Haven't read it yet but: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1131998

[DereX888]

DereX888, I use Popcorn hour for watching videos on my TV. It does an excellent job on playback them, do nice on upscaling them to 1080p when that is needed, it is small, it has a remote, etc.
It's like a DVD standalone player, that playback anything. I can even watch BluRay if I connect a USB BluRay Rom - No menus etc, just the movie.

Also, I use it as a torrent client, as an emule client and rapidshare downloader. That way, I don't have to have a PC open all the time.

Because of my popcorn hour, I pay 20 euros less per month for power supply. The cost of my A100, is 169 euros: In 8 months, I have my money back just from the money I earn because of the less power supply.

I can use it also for web radio, basic web tv and as an external device to store broadcasts from my Dreambox DM800.

Cool.
But just to add to it: except for BluRay you could do it all on very old computers for long time already (see my previous post).
And the power usage you say you save? PCs in standby take certainly not more power than this Popcorn when it is in standby, yet certainly PCs take *less* when they hibernated
169 euros is probably ~$250 or so, give or take. I think I could built "cheap PC player" for that much nowadays, or very close - and it would be obviously way better player, capable of playing anything (just in probably uglier case than Popcorn has, since really nice PC cases are very expensive). I fail to see any savings there, sorry Sat.
The worst power guzzler is usually TV. If you have plasma it most likely gobbles up 3/4 of your power usage in your living room. Large LCDs are not power shy either.