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Can somebody post screen shots / videos of the OSD UI?

I found this on youtube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=RNbksfXN7B8 but I'm looking for a little more.

I'd like to see some of the menus, maybe a browser window... just some shots of the thing actually working.

Thanks!
-Tim
dotslashlycos

Thanks for the list of supported file formats... that helps a lot.  I'm looking for a "VLC/mplayer like" appliance where I can throw it just about anything and it will play -- it looks like that is what you're shooting for, and thats awesome. 

As for the "Apple" perspective, I tend to agree.  Apple does an awesome job making stuff that works extremely well (and thats why my main comp is a mac) but their downfall lies in the fact that they sometimes will compromise features for simplicity.  This mentality works extremely well for them and most people... microsoft's new portable media player has the ability to "beam" songs to other users so they too can hear the song.  Job's response to this technology was simply "we do that too... its called taking one of your headphoes and sticking it the other person's ear"  However, some of us do like the goofy solutions like this.  You just have to make sure you don't clutter up the UI with silly features that 2% of people might find useful. 

Features are great, but it's important to have a way to disable them if its not something that everybody would use. 

Is there some way to connect to the OSD remotely with telnet or ssh or something that I don't know about?

I have seen various screen shots that have shown a command line interface conceivably running some shell (bash??) and I can't imagine that it would be terribly difficult to allow access to this shell via telnet on some port.  ssh would be more complicated, but certainly not impossible.

I have heard mention of people saying that you can mount the OSD filesystem with nfs - and that sounds promising, but I think remote shell access would be pretty important. 

Thanks!
-Tim

To my knowledge, avi is merely a wrapper and may contain video/audio of virtually any format.  Is DivX specifically supported?

As far as I know, like mpeg4, DivX is a proprietary format and license fees are required if a device or application does divx playback or encoding.

Sorry for the nitpicky questions... but I can't find much documentation and I don't want to unload 230 bucks on something that doesn't and possibly may never do what I'm looking for.

On a side note however, the news about nfs support sounds great!  Out of curiosity, how useable is the command line interface?  Without a GUI, the only other way to mount an NFS share would have to be to issue a mount command and/or edit the fstab file.  Is there any text editor?  nano, vi, etc??

Thanks again,
-Tim

This thing looks great... but I have a few questions:

I am currently running a media server that has video in divx (all versions), mpeg1, mpeg2, [VOB's] and mpeg4, as well as various quicktime formats and some others. 

Which of the formats does the OSD currently support, and what kind of timetable exists for the other formats?

Also - my server shares out content using http, samba, and nfs.  Does a timetable exist for implementing the ability to mount volumes for any of these?

Thanks!
-Tim