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greg_mitch
Joined: 03 May 2006
Posts: 5320
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| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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| TheRedknight wrote: | This device rocks !! 
Plays VC-1, AVC, H264 in .m2ts also passes through DTS core from DTS HD MA and DD core from DD HD
I've also converted .EVO files to M2TS and it plays it fine.
No PC, No noise, setup is so simple.
$123 at tigerdirect.ca |
What are you converting? BR? HD DVD? What software are you using to convert? It passes all of this thru HDMI?
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TheRedknight
Joined: 19 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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I had Planet Earth on HD DVD - once the files are ripped to hard drive, the EVOs are VC-1 and DD I used tsMuxer to covert to m2ts
For Bluray with DTSHD audio I use TsRemux.
I don't have a HDMI capable AV receiver - but my understanding it will pass audio and video by HDMI cable
Connections I use from the WDTV HD are HDMI ( to EXT-HD ) and toslink ( to my receiver )
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nuttall_chris
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 832
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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| TheRedknight wrote: | I had Planet Earth on HD DVD - once the files are ripped to hard drive, the EVOs are VC-1 and DD I used tsMuxer to covert to m2ts
For Bluray with DTSHD audio I use TsRemux.
I don't have a HDMI capable AV receiver - but my understanding it will pass audio and video by HDMI cable
Connections I use from the WDTV HD are HDMI ( to EXT-HD ) and toslink ( to my receiver ) |
I have one of these WDTV boxes (borrowed from a friend to evaluate) and it will play every M2TS file I throw at it. All of my M2TS files are either Bluray or HDDVD rips from the original disks. I have it connected with the HDMI port. It will pass both audio and video over HDMI but it won't work with any of the HD audio formats (TrueHD/DTSMA/LPCM) It's only an HDMI 1.2 device so even with a firmware update it will never support bitstreaming of HD Audio. Video playback looks very good to me but it doesn't output 1080P24 correctly. It outputs exactly at 24 hz not 23.976hz which many have reported to see a dropped frame every 40 seconds (I haven't see it happen yet) 1080P60 appears to work without issue.
Chris.
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bbfarmht
Joined: 27 May 2006
Posts: 1273
Location: Where the Mississippi runs east to west!!
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| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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E-cost has these on sale right now!!
Western Digital TV HD Media Player - WDAVN00BN
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greg_mitch
Joined: 03 May 2006
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Been reading a bit more into this too. It seems that these are hacked now to be able to allow ethernet connection over USB for streaming. Also will allow a USB DVD drive to be hooked up to it so you could conceivably use it as a DVD player and perhaps play AVCHD burnt to double layer DVD's from HD camcorders.
$129 at BB and I have about $200 in giftcards just waiting to get burnt. I don't know when I would use this though...I wish they could combine this box and the Roku box.
I need a pre/pro or receiver with about 10 HDMI inputs for all of these little doohickies they come up with.
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