2011-12-09, 05:26
Just for giggles, I loaded Firecore's latest release of their aTV Flash software on my aTV.... I read in their release notes that there were some playback improvements. I must say that I am very impressed with the media player this time around, as far as playback is concerned. It is playing back many of my TV shows (MythTV recording encoded with handbrake) that the previous version of their media player, and XBMC, had trouble with. It played the first 10 minutes of Alice in Wonderland (unencoded Bluray rip with Makemkv) without a hitch, where XBMC and Firecore's previous player could not get through the opening Disney Logo. I then tried Avatar (again unencoded Bluray rip with Makemkv) and it buffers every minute or so, then eventually comes up with a message that my network may be too slow to play the file... but it the periods where it played back, quality was fantastic. Of course, this is using SMB to transfer the files, so I expected some sort of networking issue, but this tells me that Firecore apparently found a way to squeeze a little more juice from this unit.
Has anybody else tried this with similar results? I am quite impressed, and I have higher hopes for what XBMC will be able to do with this little black box. (If Firecore can do it, Team-XBMC can do it better!)
Has anybody else tried this with similar results? I am quite impressed, and I have higher hopes for what XBMC will be able to do with this little black box. (If Firecore can do it, Team-XBMC can do it better!)