Media Player Suggestions

Bigford352

Gregiboy, sorry for the post here i tryed to pm you but it sed you do not accept pm's.
I am looking for a new media player i use the ps3 and have 2 wdtv live boxes and i am not impressed with them. I know you test them and i was wondering what you would recomend?? I have ben looking at the popcorn hour a-200 and also popbox. is there any you LOVE that is avail here in the us?????
Thanks...............:)

GregiBoy

Well, I am not impressed with the Pop stuff either.

Why are you not impressed with the WD's? Please expound what you feel are the shortcomings.

Then maybe I may have more of an idea what you are looking for.

My current favourites are the E9HD and E8HD from but I don't know if they are available in the US but last time I was talking to the manufacturer they said that they had done a deal with BestBuy.

Bigford352

[QUOTE=GregiBoy;43150]Well, I am not impressed with the Pop stuff either.

Why are you not impressed with the WD's? Please expound what you feel are the shortcomings.

Then maybe I may have more of an idea what you are looking for.

My current favourites are the E9HD and E8HD from but I don't know if they are available in the US but last time I was talking to the manufacturer they said that they had done a deal with BestBuy.[/QUOTE]

Originaly I put all my dvd's to single vob files and streem them to ps3 with ps3media server. Then the wife and i decided to put streemers in the boys room and ours i did some looking and went with the wdtv live. It played ok but then i noticed that some movies would pause or go to FF for no reason. I thaught they must be bad files so i redid them same problem. Then I read on wd's forum to put vob files in the VIDEO_TS folder so i did and same thing so i went with just a dvd rip and kept them in same folder as they was (VIDEO_TS) and the same files would "SKIP" or judder for a sec in the same spot as they would freez (about 10sec from where the vob's are split) I called WD and they sed it was not possable for the files to skip or judder if the dvd wad placed in the proper VIDEO_TS folder. So long story short after that they sed if i dont like it to return it or wait for a firmware update that may fix it if they can duplicate the problem. And there are a few others i see out there with the same problem and when you look at the forum there are lots of unhappy people with issues that are not resolved and mabie 2 people trying to stick up for WD.
All I want is a simple media player with no major issues to play simple media (dvd) files and no lipsync problems.(alot of wd customers are complaning about that)
Thanks in advance...................:D

Bigford352

Sorry I forgot to say all the movies play fine in single file .VOB format with the PS3 so i know the files are good and all rips and .VOB passthrough has ben done with DVDFAB. :p

GregiBoy

Are you using wireless or do you have them hardwired? I have found that wireless is just not up to streaming reliably. I usually use something like Netgear's Powerline afdaptors instead.

Also, from what I have tried & read, the WD's are far happier with MKV's than VOB's. Give that a shot & see what happens.

Bigford352

[QUOTE=GregiBoy;43170]Are you using wireless or do you have them hardwired? I have found that wireless is just not up to streaming reliably. I usually use something like Netgear's Powerline afdaptors instead.

Also, from what I have tried & read, the WD's are far happier with MKV's than VOB's. Give that a shot & see what happens.[/QUOTE]

All hardwired cat5e and i hav read the mkv deal what scares me though is the threads with audio sync issues I now have 300 plus dvds and dont want to spend the time encoding if audio sync is in play i have done a few mkv's and play ok just scared to jump the gun on 300+ encodes if most wont work right.

GregiBoy

I encode to MKV's & AVI's all the time without sync problems. Currently have over 1000 of them, mostly AVI's as I only started encodeing to MKV's when the players started to support them.

As a general comment, I think most A/V sync problems revolves around WMV formats.

crackinhedz

I have a WDTV and so does my father, we don't have any issues. We normally play mostly .mkv and .mp4 though. :)

...you could try renaming your .vob to .mpeg file extension and see if you don't get a different result?