2011-08-25, 09:16
Hi all,
I have been playing with XBMC since it very first days as a Mediaplayer on the XBOX1 and I always have been very impressed with it.
Today, with the evolution of mediaplayers and the importance their taking in a home cinema setup I'm facing some dilemma where I would like your opinion.
I'm in the process of converting all my media to MKV, over 300 blu-ray discs are converted with no compression to MKV using makemkv and stored on several Synology NAS devices. (Over 15TB for the moment)
I have actually 2 systems running, 1 is a Dune HD Max and the other one an EeePC Asus 1012 with XBMC.
The Dune is giving me superb image and sound quality, all codecs supported, even DTS-Master and Dolby-HD but the interface is boring. It is possible to make the interface better using Zapitti but it's a cumbersome task.
The XBMC box has a great interface, you can't get better then that, the automated library updates are excellent but the sound and image quality aren't the best of this world. Some MKV files are showing bugs and not all the audio codecs are supported (or they are downsampled).
So either I remain with the Dune and it's superb image/sound quality, either I go with XBMC and it's superb interface and possibilities.
Isn't there a way to combine both, having an XBMC, perfectly silent, supporting all formats without downsampling and the ease of use of the Dune (boot straight into XBMC like XBMC-Live, I'm saying this as XBMC on Win7 supports DTS-MA but won't boot straight into XBMC like the live does).
What do you think?
I have been playing with XBMC since it very first days as a Mediaplayer on the XBOX1 and I always have been very impressed with it.
Today, with the evolution of mediaplayers and the importance their taking in a home cinema setup I'm facing some dilemma where I would like your opinion.
I'm in the process of converting all my media to MKV, over 300 blu-ray discs are converted with no compression to MKV using makemkv and stored on several Synology NAS devices. (Over 15TB for the moment)
I have actually 2 systems running, 1 is a Dune HD Max and the other one an EeePC Asus 1012 with XBMC.
The Dune is giving me superb image and sound quality, all codecs supported, even DTS-Master and Dolby-HD but the interface is boring. It is possible to make the interface better using Zapitti but it's a cumbersome task.
The XBMC box has a great interface, you can't get better then that, the automated library updates are excellent but the sound and image quality aren't the best of this world. Some MKV files are showing bugs and not all the audio codecs are supported (or they are downsampled).
So either I remain with the Dune and it's superb image/sound quality, either I go with XBMC and it's superb interface and possibilities.
Isn't there a way to combine both, having an XBMC, perfectly silent, supporting all formats without downsampling and the ease of use of the Dune (boot straight into XBMC like XBMC-Live, I'm saying this as XBMC on Win7 supports DTS-MA but won't boot straight into XBMC like the live does).
What do you think?