2010-03-28, 17:33
Hi there guys. I've been using XBMC for a while in a somewhat limited capacity at my wife's office to play back ISO rips of DVDs.
After visiting with a friend last night, who has XBMC running on his Apple TV I'm wondering if I might want to give this a try.
The problem is that most of my material these days is on Blu-ray disc. I really don't want to lose the quality of the audio or video converting this into a format that XBMC can deal with. The menus themselves are not terribly important to me though. I do realize that XBMC does not have native Blu-ray playback support and might never have it.
So, my question is, what is the success that people are having for playback of Blu-ray sourced content on the Apple TV with the Crystal decoder card and what is their work flow like to get the content sourced?
I have a multi TB NAS (WHS actually) in my basement and an all gigabit ethernet network throughout the house, so I will just host everything on the WHS box and access over the network.
I am contemplating whether I should get the Apple TV plus Crystal card to start dicking around with or maybe an Ion based Nvidia set top box is a better option?
The foremost priority for me definitely is being able to play back HD audio and video through XBMC.
Thanks!
J
After visiting with a friend last night, who has XBMC running on his Apple TV I'm wondering if I might want to give this a try.
The problem is that most of my material these days is on Blu-ray disc. I really don't want to lose the quality of the audio or video converting this into a format that XBMC can deal with. The menus themselves are not terribly important to me though. I do realize that XBMC does not have native Blu-ray playback support and might never have it.
So, my question is, what is the success that people are having for playback of Blu-ray sourced content on the Apple TV with the Crystal decoder card and what is their work flow like to get the content sourced?
I have a multi TB NAS (WHS actually) in my basement and an all gigabit ethernet network throughout the house, so I will just host everything on the WHS box and access over the network.
I am contemplating whether I should get the Apple TV plus Crystal card to start dicking around with or maybe an Ion based Nvidia set top box is a better option?
The foremost priority for me definitely is being able to play back HD audio and video through XBMC.
Thanks!
J