Popcorn hour C200
I got my new media streamer today: the popcorn hour C200.
I'm streaming all content from a windows home server (I've iso-ed all the kids movies - mostly to protect them since they will get scratched) from where I stream the iso and avi files through the C200. admittedly I've only had the device 1 hour but I noticed (or rather my daughter did) that the streaming (via SMB) can halt from time to time (I'm still finding out why), I think this has to do with the CPU load on the WHS machine, it seems to spike from time to time and judging from the network traffic from the WHS machine it seems to dip inline with CPU load ...
Update: I've been using the PCH for some time now and I'm really happy, the quality is great and its very easy to use, the remote control is radio based, so no line-of-sight is needed, which means I've put the device in a closed cabinet (I don't have HDD or blu-ray player so the device doesn't get too hot and I don't need to access it).
I've also figured out that the YAMJ (Yet Another Media Library) is a great tool to show the kids movie collection ... so I've spend the last week/weekend to encode all the 70+ kids DVDs to ISO and get the album art correct, but the result is fantastic !!
Update: the best tool to copy your DVDs from DVD to ISO: anyDVD ... Nero also does a good job. If you really need to convert it to a AVI/MKV format (or the likes), use FairUse, its one of the few tools where I get a consistently playable file (i.e. playable on the kids Archos' devices)
