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Easyrider's Playon HD mini review thread.
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Caporegime
Lol yes I just realised that I don't need the xbox to stream if I get one of these boxes.
I have to say, i'm at a loss as to how a 10 year old managed to install YAMJ, i've been ****ing around with command lines, GUIs throwing nondescript errors about batch files etc. at me for about an hour now and i'm absolutely no nearer to having YAMJ installed than I was at the start.
Kenai I will try and help you with this mini guide, im slightly struggling too but i *think* i have it mostly figured out now.
First, the yamj runs in a dos box so you have zero input at this stage; also i have found the mediainfo 'plugin' frequently puts the wrong covers in ( the life before her eyes ALWAYS picked up as the italian cover) so do yourself a favour and download Ember Media Manager.
right, so now im going to assume you have yamj and EMM installed.
Run EMM, in the settings/movie tab make sure you have it all setup like this
let EMM scrape all your movies, then when you are happy with all the covers,fanart (backgrounds) and details you can run YAMJ and (hopefully) because the information is already there, it will use those files.
then run the yamj gui config and when it is finished go to 'jukebox' on the ac ryan and point it to the index.htm file.
that should be more or less it, hope that helps.
First, the yamj runs in a dos box so you have zero input at this stage; also i have found the mediainfo 'plugin' frequently puts the wrong covers in ( the life before her eyes ALWAYS picked up as the italian cover) so do yourself a favour and download Ember Media Manager.
right, so now im going to assume you have yamj and EMM installed.
Run EMM, in the settings/movie tab make sure you have it all setup like this
let EMM scrape all your movies, then when you are happy with all the covers,fanart (backgrounds) and details you can run YAMJ and (hopefully) because the information is already there, it will use those files.
then run the yamj gui config and when it is finished go to 'jukebox' on the ac ryan and point it to the index.htm file.
that should be more or less it, hope that helps.
Do you guys get any issues with forced subtitles in bluray rips? I've tried copying my Avatar bluray 3 different ways now with no luck. The subtitles are either always on or always off with no respect for the forced only parts 
I've tried MakeMkv and also 2 ways in DVDFab, full perfect iso copy and also main movie rip. The main movie rip works perfectly in XBMC with the subtitles showing properly.
I've tried MakeMkv and also 2 ways in DVDFab, full perfect iso copy and also main movie rip. The main movie rip works perfectly in XBMC with the subtitles showing properly.http://playonhd.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!454A6850F2AFC553!515.entry
There is an installer for the mini.
Its a few click process.
I see from one of your screenshots there is "TV Shows" how are these displayed/organized?
Is it similar to XBMC - TV Show > Season > File
Really tempted by this! Thanks
thats right, yup
Caporegime
Hmmm still not 110% sure if i should get this...my 32" lcd only has one HDMI input which is connected to my xbox at the moment. So wont be able to connect the box directly to the TV.
I suppose i could just connect it into my router and use it that way?? ie use the box to stream from my laptop hd to my xbox360...i guess that would work right??
I suppose i could just connect it into my router and use it that way?? ie use the box to stream from my laptop hd to my xbox360...i guess that would work right??
Soldato
You can get PS3 Media to do that and its free. You will need to ensure the PC is switched on and the service running when streaming media from the PC to the Xbox. However the down side would be it *might* not be able to play every format compared to the PlayOn. Amiright?
why would you do that?
Why have the laptop in the equation or the xbox?
Just get a HDMI splitter and just play from the mini using a external HDD
You are making something very very simple overly complicated!
Caporegime
Yeh was looking at maybe getting one of those but seen one for about £25 which is kinda expensive.
Well the problem i have now and why im thinking of getting one of these boxes is that i have TVersity which is on my laptop...that in turn is connected through my network which then goes to my xbox...problem is when i play MKV or blu ray rips from my laptop to my xbox it stutters every 10-15 mins but then stops and plays fine but 10-15mins later so kind of annoying but all other media files play fine without stuttering....at the moment my xbox is connected to my router via wireless, which is N spec and my laptop is connected via a CAT5 cable to the router.
Soldato
Whats the spec on your laptop?
Caporegime
Its a dual core intel cpu...centrino...runs at 2.3ghz and has 2gb of ram in it along with a 160gb HD which is 7200 rpm i think....its pretty old now about 4 yrs but does mostly everything i want it to ie browsing the net and downloading stuff.
Anyhow have ordered the playon mini HD box....think ill just connect it direct to my LCD, ordered a HDMI splitter as well as my LCD only has the one input. Like easyrider said earlier...just better if i connect it to my LCD then connect my external HD, which is 750gb...just means ill have to copy all my files across but it seems to be the simplest way to get it working...that way i dont have to worry about using my network bandwidth to stream movies/other media across.
Hopefully this will be the best £130 ive spent...cost me £130 because of the splitter plus next day delivery.
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Just ordered one of these today on a special for £76 and a few pence.
Will be setting it up to run from my FreeNAS shares so I'll post back with my experiences!
Hopefully this will be a bit more 'Girlfriend compatible' than the current Atom PC/XBMC setup.
/thread necro
Will be setting it up to run from my FreeNAS shares so I'll post back with my experiences!
Hopefully this will be a bit more 'Girlfriend compatible' than the current Atom PC/XBMC setup.
/thread necro
Caporegime
Ive had mine for just over a month and have to say im extremely impressed with it...its a standalone box and i have my external usb hd plugged into it which i ran a hdmi cable into my TV...i also have it connected to the internet as i use the YAMMJ program which gives me the box covers etc and basic info...gets it from IMDB i think...but its fairly quick and Blu ray rips that i have on ext hd look the business although my LCD is about 3-4 yrs now...but its much better than my original set up ie laptap running tversity which then ran into my xbox360 and id stream movies that way but it was rubbish at handling blu ray rips...kept stuttering every 5-10 mins.
That's really good to hear. I'm thinking of ripping all my DVD's and blu rays to a NAS so that I can get at all my movies from any room in the house. Are your blu-ray rips full quality - I'd be interested to know how it deals with an uncompressed blu ray rip?
Judging by the AC Ryan forums there seems to be a lot of issues with these boxes... Still, there seems to be a lot of developer activity so hopefully they will get the problems sorted out.
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Make that £70.49 which makes this even more bargainous!
I've quickly plugged it into a crappy projector at work and played a bit of The Pacific (1.4GB), Up (7.3GB) and the Great Escape (6.4GB) all MKV's over the network - standard composite video and it looked pretty good. Setup was very quick and easy and the menu is very responsive.
I'll post back once it's been on my TV at home but first impression is very good!
As a side question, is there an optimal way of organising media files for playback in this kind of way?
Should each file be in a folder of the same name or is all in one directory ok?
I've quickly plugged it into a crappy projector at work and played a bit of The Pacific (1.4GB), Up (7.3GB) and the Great Escape (6.4GB) all MKV's over the network - standard composite video and it looked pretty good. Setup was very quick and easy and the menu is very responsive.
I'll post back once it's been on my TV at home but first impression is very good!
As a side question, is there an optimal way of organising media files for playback in this kind of way?
Should each file be in a folder of the same name or is all in one directory ok?