OT PING: Steve Walker (or XBMC modders).

[T i m]

No. 1) Because I don't have to and 2) because if you really can't remember doing it, nothing is going to stop you doing it again.

Ok. Killfille me.

Oh really! Prove it by *never* replying to me or one of my posts again.

You really are ill aren't you. Previously I thought you just blew hot and cold, now I realise you really have a problem.

I don't mind / care about 'harsh' (I'm a big boy) what I think weird is your need to poke your nose into a conversation that you are supposedly not interested in and it's more often the not, spout personal abuse and comments.

Example:

Filth "Do you actually understand going around with your head not up your arse, DIM?"

You had to comment on a reply TO SOMEONE ELSE! Why did you bother? (plus what you wrote doesn't even make sense).

Filth ""

And found what and when exactly? I always get great help and advice in all the newsgroups I want to post in, in spite of your constant intervention, stirring shit and trying to make it otherwise.

I know of two similar Steve's and that's two too many thanks!

I know what it is. You have imagined that's what happening and are now locked in a timewarp of some sort and can't break free. I have totally rebuked your completely incorrect perceptions time after time yet you seem stuck in some self destructive loop?

And how come many people are happy to talk to me in UCSM? It's not a Mac advocacy group did you know?

I am typing this on a Mac Mini. The one I've had for probably a couple of years now. Just because I don't have my tongue firmly up the arse of Steve Jobs (I wonder if there is a theme here ... ?) and *prefer* Windows (and building my own machines) you extract from that what you do? But what's the point of saying anything to you, you have your little beliefs and there's nothing shaking you.

Do yourself a favour. Take a step back and take a look at what you are doing and saying yourself. If you feel modifying some electronics for home media is less 'home' or 'diy' than the numerous and often wildly OT posts you do reply to then that's fine. Don't use it as an excuse to release your obvious fascination for and jealousy of me.

Help myself just pottering along no. Help myself from passing nasty comments about people totally unprovoked, yes.

But non of that will mean anything to you because of course you are loved in every newsgroup your frequent aren't you (not).

Just look at this one for example. Fred felt it was OT and that's fine. I explained why I felt it wasn't. I have had the reply I was hoping for from Steve Walker and a couple of others have added extra constructive thoughts about my project. One has specifically requested his name is never used in the same sentence as yours.

What do *you* make of that then?

T i m

[T i m]

Noted, ta.

Is the Xbox 360 supposed to be better in this matter do you know? Whilst I've found it ok at 1080p (is it, old non HD 42" plasma?) it seems a bit fussy about the file types?

Ah. ;-)

that's what I wanted and it doesn't play DVD's (another requirement). ;-(

I have looked at the other units mentioned in previous coverage of such here and elsewhere but they were nearer the £80 mark (more than I paid for the 360).

I did consider the energy requirements but even if the 360 draws the

175W the PSU is capable of I bet it would be dwarfed by the plasma [1] ... ...

Std Xbox ~ 63W Xbox 360 ~ 98W

42" Plasma ~ 190-550W (550W when displaying the mainly all white EA Games logo!). ;-)

My WHS draws 39W but anything with a even half decent graphics card and 3.5" drive(s) (that I have knocking about) draws more like

75-100W.

Probably loads more than the Cyclone but then they all do a lot more too?

Cheers, T i m

[1] And I was given the plasma. Given the amount of time it's likely to be on it would take many years to recoup the cost of a new lower power equivalent (if I could afford one).

[ARWadsworth]

But there is only one Steve Firth:-)

Adam

[Steve Walker]

I couldn't possibly comment... :o)

[Steve Walker]

Yeah, it doesn't like MP4 and H264, but Divx is still pretty widespread. I'd agree though, they're on the edge of obsolence - that's why they're so gloriously cheap.

My upgrade path is going to be homebuilt mini-itx, or.... Western Digital TV Version2 HD Media Player Full 1080p

[T i m]

And part of the reason why I felt like looking at it further. I have a mixed bunch of media and noted the Xbox 360 wouldn't play some of the Lost series I'd collected. It looked like the only difference between what it would play and what it wouldn't is the ones it wouldn't were encoded with Divx. Hence I thought the XBMC might stand a better chance (and I can't be arsed to convert it all).

I could use VLC on Ubuntu but I can't get Ubuntu to see the WHS properly and could (and have) played it all on a Windows / Mac - PC and Windows laptop (even the eeePC) but I preferred a dedicated player.

Like you I may well build a low-power media player, with a DTV tuner card, DVD etc but that is way down the 'to do' list. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

[Lobster]

Having personally failed to negtiate the XBMC route, Iust installed my new WDTV player on Friday (at least the slightly more expensive WD 'Live' version which hooks up direct to various internet sites - not quite sure of the value of that!).

It's a really excellent gizmo - thoroughly reccommended. It can now play all my stored music and downloaded video via the living room home-cinema kit; and it's particularly pleasing to be able to access my now-pretty-vast repository of digital photos which hitherto have been stired pretty much undisturbed on the PC for years - putting on an ad-hoc slide show on the living room wide-screen is a piece of cake.

Don't know if you're aware of the xtreamer

which seems very similar: I spent ages humminging and ha'ing over which one to go for. Xtreamer has the facility to include a built-in HDD, which I couldn't decide was desirable or not!

David