Hi there,

The reason I'm starting this thread is to find a media player to support international fonts. You see i have two daughters that they like to watch cartoons a lot. I usually record or download those cartoons and have them all in divx avi files. I recently bought a cheap HDD based media player and copied all files and folders to a disk that i placed in that box which then connected to the TV i have in the kids room - so far so good...

The problem is that my daughters can read and speak only in Greek at the moment (the biggest one is five years old). All the files and folders are in Greek language because my daughters can't read words like "Cinderella" or "Smurfs", but even if they read them, they will not understand their meaning (those characters are called different in some countries.

Do you know of any kind of player that can show files and folders in greek language and support any kind of playback? Subtitle support would be nice bit it's not something i need at the moment. I don't even care if it is a disk based player or a Lan / Wireless player - let it be anything... I just need the support for Greek fonts fr files and folders...

If you happen to have a well supported player that you believe might support such feature, please make a folder with Greek characters in a place that will be accessible by your player and just check if it shows real text or garbage. If you can't type or find a Greek text to make the folder, then please copy and paste the following:

ΣΤΑΧΤΟΠΟΥΤΑ

Really thank you for reading... :)

Check out Xbox Media Center (XBMC), which supports numerous languages and character sets (http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/index.php?title=List_of_Supported_Charsets) and nearly as many codecs.
It will play files from optical disc, internal HDD or network.
It also has one of the best interfaces available.

It requires a hard- or soft-modded original Xbox.
It is stable, versatile and will play most anything (except HD, because the original Xbox just doesn't have the horsepower).

This is a good place to start: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=635294.

Edit: Forgot to mention that it passed your test.

Check out Xbox Media Center (XBMC), which supports numerous languages and character sets

Edit: Forgot to mention that it passed your test.

Nice Idea... I believe i can find a used Xbox for a very low price. Do you know what is the biggest hard drive that i can install in an Xbox? I prefer an Internal hard drive because my girls may need to carry that player with them when they go to our summer house - it will not be easy for me to carry the WHS along... :o

Nice Idea... I believe i can find a used Xbox for a very low price. Do you know what is the biggest hard drive that i can install in an Xbox? I prefer an Internal hard drive because my girls may need to carry that player with them when they go to our summer house - it will not be easy for me to carry the WHS along... :o

I have done a 750G drive with a softmod with no issues.... Theoretically a 1TB drive should work but I dont know of any with an IDE interface and have not read of anyone actually doing this...

Sean

I have 250GB in mine but I only store Xbox games and emulators/ROMS on it locally. 500GB should be no problem though if you use "XBPartitioner" which uses 32KB clusters that is required for any drive larger than 256GB.

For all media (like music, movies, and TV-Shows) I personally prefer a small NAS, like D-Link DNS-323 for two SATA harddrives if you need that little extra space but still each to carry along ;)
http://xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/index.php?title=NAS

I will only store certain media (standard/low definition kid cartoon movies in divx) on that system so 400Gb - 500Gb would be sufficient. The NAS idea is not bad... If i fail with the internal installation i'll propably install a 200Gb drive inside and I'll try to find a cheaper single disk SAN Case that will also be easier to carry around...