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07-04-2009
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My System: Dreambox 800 HD 500Gb, Dreambox 500 S, VBox 2, Jaeger 99G H to H 36v, Invacom Twin LNB 0.3db, 85 cm Mesh Dish |
A mate of mine is in the market for a DM800 and he was also going to buy a seperate media player until I pointed out that the DM800 has a media player. I assume he would just FTP his movies over to the correct directory on the HDD. Also does the DM800 support DivX and other video formats? I've read it doesn't in its standard config, but isn't this a case of installing the right codecs? | ||
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Blog Entries: 13 My System: 2 Dreamboxes ------ DM 8000 HD PVR ------- ---------- DM 800 HD ---------- -------- Motek SG2100 -------- ---- Triax 80cm Dual LNB ----- -- Fixed Dish 28e Quad LNB -- ---------- Sky HD Full ---------- ------- 24" Apple iMAC --------  Creator of the CCCCC - only a true wizard could come up with such a name!! | Ok, the best way to do it is using the VLC plugin. Run VLC on your PC where all your media is stored, then simply run the VLC plugin on the Dreambox and access all your media from your PC. It will play anything you throw at it. | ||
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My System: Dreambox 800 HD 500Gb, Dreambox 500 S, VBox 2, Jaeger 99G H to H 36v, Invacom Twin LNB 0.3db, 85 cm Mesh Dish | I've already had the DM800 playing movies over a network using the built in media player in the BH0.7 image without the need for VLC, I just need to know what formats it can play. I've had nothing but bad experiences of VLC on 500's so I'd perfer to avoid it. This is for a caravan application so the files would be held on the HDD. | ||
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My System: DM 600-S, AB IPBox 9000HD, Moteck SG2100, Fracarro Penta 85 dish, + some puters | I dont own a DM800 so cant say for sure, but It will play MPEG2 and MP3 files natively. You can probably forget about anything like WMV, WMA, Divx, Xvid. You'll need VLC running on a PC to transcode and stream these files. I've never had any trouble using a combination of VLC on the PC and VLCF in the dreambox. You might find it works fine on the DM800. | ||
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My System: DM 600-S, AB IPBox 9000HD, Moteck SG2100, Fracarro Penta 85 dish, + some puters | All of those are MPEG based files. The dreambox decodes MPEG data in the hardware via chip. Therefore any other formats would need to be decoded in software. The processor in a dreambox is not up to this job. | ||
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Blog Entries: 13 My System: 2 Dreamboxes ------ DM 8000 HD PVR ------- ---------- DM 800 HD ---------- -------- Motek SG2100 -------- ---- Triax 80cm Dual LNB ----- -- Fixed Dish 28e Quad LNB -- ---------- Sky HD Full ---------- ------- 24" Apple iMAC -------- Creator of the CCCCC - only a true wizard could come up with such a name!! | smiffie, I'd have to argue that your past problems where with the 500 not VLC itself. The 500 is pretty crappy compared to the higher spec boxes. Especially any of the Enigma2 boxes, the performance is a different league compared to the 500. | ||
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I don't have a Dream Box yet so just wondering could the 600/7xxx/800 series play h/x.264 format and flac format music?...via VLC plugin? | |||
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My System: DM 600-S, AB IPBox 9000HD, Moteck SG2100, Fracarro Penta 85 dish, + some puters |
If VLC can play the files, they can be streamed to your TV via the Dreambox. | |||
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My System: I have a Dreambox 800 and I use laptop running Windows Vista | Hello everyone, I am pretty new to this formu, my english is poor so be cool. Your are discussing about using a DM800 as a media player. That is my question, I have a dreambox800, and I have films stored on a hard disk drive connected to my network using an IP address. I know nothing about linux, could someone explain in plain english words how to play my movies on my dreambox. Thanks for your support | ||
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