Media Centre Devices - Corsa Sport - for Vauxhall and Opel Corsa B, Corsa C and Corsa D

Not logged in [Login - Register]

You Are Not Registered Or Not Logged In

Corsa Sport » Message Board » Off Day » Geek Day » Media Centre Devices

New Topic

New Poll

<< 1 2 >>

Subscribe | Add to Favourites

You are not logged in and may not post or reply to messages. Please log in or create a new account or mail us about fixing an existing one - register@corsasport.co.uk

There are also many more features available when you are logged in such as private messages, buddy list, location services, post search and more.

noshua

Member

Registered: 19th Nov 08
User status: Offline

4th Jan 11 at 12:57

I have the Revo which has VGA and HDMI from the unit.

I'm running W7 and then launch XBMC inside it (W7 was already installed, couldn't be arsed faffing around with installing XBMC Live or ubuntu). Cold boot I'd say 20-30 seconds?

EDIT: This install takes 20/21 seconds, booting straight into XBMC with a few services running too; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu3v5QFBaWE

[Edited on 04-01-2011 by noshua]

stubs

Member

Registered: 30th Jun 02
Location: Bolton
User status: Offline

4th Jan 11 at 12:59

Do they boot quicker using XBMC?

noshua

Member

Registered: 19th Nov 08
User status: Offline

4th Jan 11 at 13:00

See my edit above - there's a linux distro that boots in seconds, I'll find the link

noshua

Member

Registered: 19th Nov 08
User status: Offline

4th Jan 11 at 13:07

http://www.openelec.tv/

Youtube videos showing examples of it running are quite old, beta2 of OpenElec and the latest XBMC were only released a few days ago.

stubs

Member

Registered: 30th Jun 02
Location: Bolton
User status: Offline

4th Jan 11 at 13:11

Nice one cheers! I'll take a look at all the links and vids when I get home.
So long as I never have to touch a mouse or keyboard again after initial setup, it will be a serious contender.

[Edited on 04-01-2011 by stubs]

noshua

Member

Registered: 19th Nov 08
User status: Offline

4th Jan 11 at 13:16

No problem

I control XBMC from my phone (instead of a MCE remote), so you definitely won't have to use a mouse or keyboard.

M4tt_Envoy

Member

Registered: 26th Feb 06
Location: Swindon
User status: Offline

5th Jan 11 at 16:36

Has anyone used MediaPortal as a front end, i have ordered all the parts for my media center and im considering Media Portal as the front end

Bart

Member

Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
User status: Offline

5th Jan 11 at 16:58

quote:
Originally posted by Pablo
saves all the fucking about, just plug it , select the file, always get a smoother play back i think then media players

Absolute rubbish, well compared to the popcorn hours anyway.
I used to have an old A110 and I now have a C200. The A110 was so amazingly good I bought a C200 on pre-order.

Whilst the Revo sounds good, just try to bare in mind what your trying to achieve here.
If you want a decent media player that is built to do the job you want it to, why look at a PC?

Dom

Member

Registered: 13th Sep 03
User status: Offline

5th Jan 11 at 17:50

quote:
Originally posted by Bart

quote:
Originally posted by Pablo
saves all the fucking about, just plug it , select the file, always get a smoother play back i think then media players

Absolute rubbish, well compared to the popcorn hours anyway.
I used to have an old A110 and I now have a C200. The A110 was so amazingly good I bought a C200 on pre-order.

Whilst the Revo sounds good, just try to bare in mind what your trying to achieve here.
If you want a decent media player that is built to do the job you want it to, why look at a PC?

Horses for courses.
If you want a Plug & Play media player then Popcorn Hour's are about the best, although the standard GUI is a bit crap but YAMJ improves it some what. Want more functionality (Multi-tuner PVR etc) then a HTPC is the way to go.

stubs

Member

Registered: 30th Jun 02
Location: Bolton
User status: Offline

5th Jan 11 at 18:14

quote:
Originally posted by Dom

quote:
Originally posted by Bart

quote:
Originally posted by Pablo
saves all the fucking about, just plug it , select the file, always get a smoother play back i think then media players

Absolute rubbish, well compared to the popcorn hours anyway.
I used to have an old A110 and I now have a C200. The A110 was so amazingly good I bought a C200 on pre-order.

Whilst the Revo sounds good, just try to bare in mind what your trying to achieve here.
If you want a decent media player that is built to do the job you want it to, why look at a PC?

Horses for courses.
If you want a Plug & Play media player then Popcorn Hour's are about the best, although the standard GUI is a bit crap but YAMJ improves it some what. Want more functionality (Multi-tuner PVR etc) then a HTPC is the way to go.

Not interested in tuners or PVR... but I don't think that was suggested with the Revo.
I have fully subbed Sky running through an Icecrypt S4000HD that records unencrypted to my NAS... no need for any other form of tuner of PVR functionality.

Doug

Member

Registered: 8th Oct 03
User status: Offline

5th Jan 11 at 18:29

What is everyone's opinion on the WDTV Live box?

Whittie

Member

Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
User status: Offline

5th Jan 11 at 18:29

I've just bought a popcorn hour box, cant wait for it to arrive tbh.

stubs

Member

Registered: 30th Jun 02
Location: Bolton
User status: Offline

5th Jan 11 at 18:55

quote:
Originally posted by Doug
What is everyone's opinion on the WDTV Live box?

Had one about 6 months ago and it was great... played pretty much everything I had at the time (including the obscure recordings from my Icecrypt S4000HD), but I just didn't like the way it browses the files/movies... I got rid in favour of just using my PS3 whilst I made my mind up about what else to buy. I also didn't like the remote, or more specifically, the lack of discrete codes available for the WDTV live so that I could program my Pronto to work it a bit better.

Doug

Member

Registered: 8th Oct 03
User status: Offline

5th Jan 11 at 19:59

Do you know if you can set up little play lists on it?

I currently use an old XBox running XBMC and I can create a little playlist of say 4 episodes of Scrubs to fall a sleep to. Is that possible on the WDTV Live?

Or is it possible on the Popcorn Hour ?

Bart

Member

Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
User status: Offline

5th Jan 11 at 20:35

quote:
Originally posted by Whittie
I've just bought a popcorn hour box, cant wait for it to arrive tbh.

Drop me a pm if you get stuck / any questions.

YAMJ isn't easy to setup for the first time, but easy to use once setup.

noshua

Member

Registered: 19th Nov 08
User status: Offline

6th Jan 11 at 11:01

YAMJ is alright but it's a lot of fucking about everytime you want to update the library. It'd be so much better if you could do it on the PCH rather than through a Windows machine.

@Doug, you can create music playlists, I believe they've updated it to support video now too.

ssj_kakarot

Member

Registered: 29th Apr 03
Location: hartlepool
User status: Offline

6th Jan 11 at 16:28

quote:
Originally posted by M4tt_Envoy
Has anyone used MediaPortal as a front end, i have ordered all the parts for my media center and im considering Media Portal as the front end

yes had it for years, amazing bit of software.

Toby

Premium Member

Registered: 29th Nov 05
User status: Offline

6th Jan 11 at 16:57

quote:
Originally posted by noshua
YAMJ is alright but it's a lot of fucking about everytime you want to update the library. It'd be so much better if you could do it on the PCH rather than through a Windows machine.

I can see how plugging in a USB cable, then hitting a button and waiting for YAMJ to rescan and rebuild can be seen as 'fucking about'

noshua

Member

Registered: 19th Nov 08
User status: Offline

6th Jan 11 at 17:34

Because, as above in stubs' situation, if it's tucked away, it's just not practical.

Let's not forget that every time you have to ensure it's scraped the content properly. Oh, and unless you don't want to sit around for hours on end, you need to copy the jukebox to your local hdd, then run YAMJ, check it, then copy it back.

Doug

Member

Registered: 8th Oct 03
User status: Offline

6th Jan 11 at 18:26

quote:
Originally posted by noshua

@Doug, you can create music playlists, I believe they've updated it to support video now too.

Oooohhhhh sounds good

Doug

Member

Registered: 8th Oct 03
User status: Offline

7th Jan 11 at 08:35

Also a fairly obvious one here.....

Will the WDTV Live work with just standard windows 7 shares? Or do I need to run a program on my computer to server the media?

Whittie

Member

Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
User status: Offline

7th Jan 11 at 09:21

quote:
Originally posted by Bart

quote:
Originally posted by Whittie
I've just bought a popcorn hour box, cant wait for it to arrive tbh.

Drop me a pm if you get stuck / any questions.

YAMJ isn't easy to setup for the first time, but easy to use once setup.

Thanks mate, estimated delivery time is 2 weeks, hoping it's today though!

Toby

Premium Member

Registered: 29th Nov 05
User status: Offline

7th Jan 11 at 10:08

quote:
Originally posted by Whittie

quote:
Originally posted by Bart

quote:
Originally posted by Whittie
I've just bought a popcorn hour box, cant wait for it to arrive tbh.

Drop me a pm if you get stuck / any questions.

YAMJ isn't easy to setup for the first time, but easy to use once setup.

Thanks mate, estimated delivery time is 2 weeks, hoping it's today though!

Where did you order it from?

noshua

Member

Registered: 19th Nov 08
User status: Offline

7th Jan 11 at 11:03

quote:
Originally posted by Doug
Also a fairly obvious one here.....

Will the WDTV Live work with just standard windows 7 shares? Or do I need to run a program on my computer to server the media?

I'm sure the PCH I have worked fine with my W7 laptop so WDTV Live should be the same, if not; http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1194088

Whittie

Member

Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
User status: Offline

7th Jan 11 at 22:31

quote:
Originally posted by Toby

quote:
Originally posted by Whittie

quote:
Originally posted by Bart

quote:
Originally posted by Whittie
I've just bought a popcorn hour box, cant wait for it to arrive tbh.

Drop me a pm if you get stuck / any questions.

YAMJ isn't easy to setup for the first time, but easy to use once setup.

Thanks mate, estimated delivery time is 2 weeks, hoping it's today though!

Where did you order it from?