Recommendations for Desktop DivX Players? 28
Gheesh asks: "Early this year I was thinking on buying a desktop DVD/DivX player. When the KISS issue with MPlayer arose, I decided to postpone the purchase until things cleared up. Six months have gone by and there is not much useful information around on the licensing and hacker-friendly capabilities of the various hardware players that have appeared since then. Can anybody provide some insight into this subject?" Are there any hardware players out there that aren't mired in licensing fights that actually are worth the money?
This is a joke, right? (Score:3, Funny)
get the kiss player (Score:2)
Xbox (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Xbox (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Xbox (Score:5, Informative)
Xbox-scene also has gobs of information if you want to go the whole way with your xbox and get a mod chip.
Other than that, like the other guy said, xbins.org [xbins.org] has a whole slew of homebrew games and such, ranging from emulators to actual homebrew games, file utitlies, and the like. You will generally need to go on IRC to download them, since they are built with the official XDK and as such are illegal to distribute. I do highly reccomend XBOMBERBOX if you have 4 controllers and have a few friends that would enjoy a few rounds of bomberman :)
Re:Xbox (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.xboxmediacenter.com [xboxmediacenter.com]
cheap and effective with the added bonus of being able to play games too (and linux for all you loonie linus lovers
and of course if you actually want to download XBMC you will be needing none other than XBINS http://www.xbins.org [xbins.org] - the definitive homebrew software archive for XBOX enthusiasts!
just to keep you in the loop once you're interested you also can't go past _the_ modding/homebrew news source http://www.xbox-scene.com [xbox-scene.com]
Re:Xbox (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Xbox (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Xbox (Score:3, Informative)
Indeed not even a pc connected to a TV can compare because the xbox has a HDTV compatible tv out and there are no affortable HDTV out pc gfx cards yet. ( none which aren't more expensive then the entire xbox anyways ).
Here [tomshardware.com] is a good article from toms hardware
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Here another [tomshardware.com] quote from the same site
As things stands, the scope of functions offered by a modified XBox has little or no competition. Only a full-value mini PC can overshadow the Microsoft multi
Re:Xbox (Score:2)
Re:Xbox (Score:2)
This would be a way to get HDTV out though, you are right.
VideoLAN VLC (Score:2, Informative)
You can get it at http://videolan.org [videolan.org]
It also runs on Windows.
Re:VideoLAN VLC (Score:2)
"Are there any hardware players out there that aren't mired in licensing fights that actually are worth the money?"
Momitsu V880 (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Momitsu V880 (Score:5, Informative)
Lite-On (Score:2, Interesting)
There is a LVD-2010 [liteonit.com] out now for $200 [erwincomputers.com], but the last word [pcclub.com] is that it is not available.
Re:Lite-On (Score:3, Informative)
It has served me well. Almost every NEW DivX file that I throw at it plays with no problems. It doesn't like a lot of the old DivX3 files though.
Be warned, it is flash upgradable, BUT they've only released one (flakey, by many reports) update and they don't intend to release any future upgrades. I wonder if it's hackable...
I also wish the MP3 playing functions were smarter. Really, who wants to liste
xbox (Score:2, Interesting)
Try the Phillips DVP642 (Score:1, Informative)
Philips DVP642 (Score:3, Informative)
Check out this extensive thread at fatwallet:
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.php?c
Re:Philips DVP642 (Score:3, Interesting)
I haven't had a TV in years, and have been reluctant to get anything with a tuner; it's too easy to "just see what's on" and suddenly realize that you've watsted two hours that you'll
Re:Philips DVP642 (Score:2)
GeeXBox (software) (Score:2)
UMAX / Yamada 6600 (Score:2, Interesting)
I bought mine after two friends raved about theirs, haven't been dissappointed.
only cost me 59 (~$100). Ebuyer is your friend.
What about software solutions? (Score:2)
I'm pretty happy with my current means of recording but I would really like to have a diskless VIA EPIA based machine that provided a nice GUI using TV output and IR remote input to browse all the video files on other networked machines (SMB, NFS, etc.) Right now, video playback involves VNC and a keyboard/mouse.
The problem with MythTV is that it REQUIRES a capture card in the backend box. You allegedly can create front end boxes without a captu
get a laptop (Score:1)
divx is still around? (Score:1, Funny)
It's not a very good idea. DVD's these days are so cheap that a pay-per-play scheme such as divx isn't very cost efficient. And your local rental place probably has better hours, a closer location, and a better location than Circuit City.
Stick with a plain old DVD player, or just use your PC. Don't go for faddy activation schemes. You'll thank me later.