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[quote=”htpc_user”]
But how long does it take for the movie to start playing in Media Center (or the PC in general)? Mine has to go through the testing connection, which usually doesn’t take that long, and then it has to go through the buffering, which does take several minutes. The PS3 doesn’t seem to do any buffering at the beginning because when I push play, it says “retrieving”, and it only takes a few seconds before I’m actually watching the movie.
[/quote]I stream via Netflix’s website. I get the testing connection screen for a couple seconds then buffering for maybe half a minute (I’ll try to check that this evening) before the movie starts. And I’m on a ~1.5Mbps connection. Not super-highspeed.
Also, if anyone has any suggestions for titles to watch please let me know. Especially if they’re available via streaming. I’ll take suggestions for both myself and my wife if there are any that she may want to see. I want to take advantage of my trial as much as I can!
[quote=”Ugadata”]
I just heard this morning that Apple may be looking to purchase Netflix, has anyone else ran across this news?
[/quote]I’d heard this rumor a couple of times also recently. I don’t know how legitimate it might be though. I’m not holding my breath.
As far as bandwidth/quality goes I have my laptop connected to a 1080p LCD with a ~1.5Mbps internet connection on a good day and for the first 30 seconds or so the feed is rather blocky but after that everything is very clear as long as there isn’t a lot of motion, such as a screen pan. I can’t say that it wouldn’t be better if I had a faster connection, but since I’ve never seen what it could be I’m quite happy with what it is. When we signed up for the trial I mentioned to my wife that we should consider increasing our bandwidth for the trial period but she wanted to see what it would look like using what we’ve got. Now I’m glad we did. I am very satisfied with it.
One other thing to note, when we were signing up for the trial my wife entered in some coupon code or something and she said there was also an option for a $4.99 plan that included 1 DVD and 2 hours of streaming (per month I think). Maybe useful for those that just want to have the one DVD and view the streaming time as a bonus that they may or may not use… I didn’t see it when I went back for a screen cap though so consider it unverified and I don’t know if it is a plan that might be generally available at some point either.
I currently have a dual-boot windows partition with Cyberlink’s PowerDVD loaded just for watching Blu-Rays with. However, as soon as the next version of Mythtv is release I plan to change my vote to “Other” as it will be gaining native support and I won’t need that Windows partition for anything anymore. 🙂
I’m glad I got my vote in 1st. It was nice to see Mythtv at 100% for at least a little while. 🙂 If there are people out there that feel the site might be Sage-centric (and see I saw the clarification) then obviously I need to push my propaganda harder. :p
I’ll have to try LinHES again, but the last time that I tried it I couldn’t get it to install… I’ll check out Arch as well. Gentoo too. 🙂
I really like the pico projector and projected keyboard. I would love to see that in a real phone.
[quote=”Meester.Rip”]
[quote=”htpc_user”]
I tried to set up WOL on my server according to some instructions on here (I believe). But every time that I would put it to sleep it would immediately wake back up.
[/quote]I have that problem on my gaming rig. If I put it to sleep it wakes right back up. I have to put it into hibernate. I’ll have to try that lastwake command babgvant posted.
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I would rather have that problem over what I’m seeing with my development system. I can suspend it but when I try to wake it up it starts the process then hangs. I have to do a full reboot to get it to start up again properly. Guess I’ll have to work on that…I was happy for quite some time leaving my system on 24/7 because the Mythtv backend is [i]super[/i] stable but it kept coming back to my power bill. My wife is already used to waiting for a short period before she can watch TV because my frontend system currently also shuts down completely. My old frontend would suspend but three times I had to RMA the motherboard because it wouldn’t wake up. When I switched to this new frontend the suspend function didn’t work right and I haven’t put in enough time to figure out the problem yet. Soon though. But for now it’s a good thing because it’s ok if the TV isn’t instantly ready. She’s used to it. 🙂
[quote=”Skirge01″]
[url=http://www.missingremote.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5139&Itemid=229]Original Article Link[/url]Man, I’d love to, but the USB-UIRT doesn’t wake the PC in Windows 7 64-bit.
[/quote]Since my backend is a dedicated server I don’t have to worry about that. The shutdown process sets the BIOS wakeup time and it can also be woken up by WOL (Wake-On-LAN) from my frontends. No direct input needed. And of course I can just hit the power button on the front too if I wanted. But since the server is hard to reach that’s not a great option for me.
[quote=”babgvant”]
Wouldn’t standby be a better option? The difference in watts b/w S3 and S5 is usually just a couple, and it comes back up much faster.
[/quote]I would like to do suspend instead of shutdown but this was a quick and dirty implementation and I didn’t have time to find the right commands for suspend. As I said in the blog post, suspend is an improvement that I plan to make.
Then I am happy to have spread the word about it. Hopefully once I get my backend working at 0.23 I’ll be able to fully test it and give it a big thumbs up.
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