Bought a Media Player

[Demon Cleaner]

I assume it also does upscaling for older SD video. Does it also directly support internet video streaming like youtube?

It does upscaling, and it has YouTube XL. For a quick view of all the features, look at the main page here.

I got it yesterday, set it up, and immediately installed firmware 1.01 on it, although still beta, it has some extra features already.

Was really easy to setup, and I could reach my files on the PC straight away. Tested some .mkv video, and that played just fine, and I have to say the quality is also impressive.

Only thing that I wanted to do yesterday, is making movie sheets and XML metadata for all my movies and series, but that failed. I had installed ThumbGen and Y2M (special one for Mede8er) on the PC, but they refused to retrieve data from IMdB or such database sites, don't know why, but I already posted my problem in the Mede8er forum, gonna look later if someone got a hint for me. I have to say that I never used such software before in my life.

[Bloodwych]

Thanks for the update; always nice to play with new toys.

The tech we have these days is unbelievable.

[Demon Cleaner]

Only thing that I wanted to do yesterday, is making movie sheets and XML metadata for all my movies and series, but that failed. I had installed ThumbGen and Y2M (special one for Mede8er) on the PC, but they refused to retrieve data from IMdB or such database sites, don't know why, but I already posted my problem in the Mede8er forum, gonna look later if someone got a hint for me. I have to say that I never used such software before in my life.

I got that also working the next day, problem was that my firewall was blocking the application. It didn't ask to let it pass, so I didn't notice it straight away.

[Harrison]

So it is worth buying? Anything you can think of that it can't do, that you would like it to?

And is its firmware/software in active development?

[Demon Cleaner]

Firmware is in very active development, as they are very close to their community and try to please as many customers as possible and are always listening to people's wishes and trying to realise them.

I also copied now some stuff onto the internal HDD, the stuff which is less important and doesn't need backup. There's a lot of different files in different video formats, and I tested them all, it also plays formats like rm, rmvb or flash. Very inpressive.

We watched a movie on Saturday evening, the first one we watched so far from the media player, and it played flawlessly, without interruption or anything similar. Ok, it's supposed to work, but you never know with new hardware.

I took now pictures and metadata for all of my movies, which is looking very nice.

Example Back Swan:



I'm still doing my series which is a lot more work, as I do have to run the YAMJ application on every single episode. You can do a main image for the whole episode, like with the movies, but I found out that if you run it over every single episode, it also takes the correct episode name, plot and episode video image.

Here's how it looks f.ex. for Boardwalk Empire:

Episode 1


Episode 2


Episode 3


This looks very amazing on the TV and is quite informative, however it really takes long, I need about 30 minutes for one 20 episodes season. And if the data is not completely correct, image, banner image, year or episode name, I edit the xml file and correct that, which also takes a bit of time.

Some guy also created images for the movies genre and stuff, they are quite nice an I use them too. It's nicer to have them displayed than the boring default folder icons.

Here's 3 images:



Until now I'm more than happy with the media player, and I was already planning to rip my DVDs to it. Will keep you updated.

Btw, it's also nice to watch a movie without a 40db fan in the background