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post #91 of 259
2/6/12 at 8:27am
Not if subtitles is turned off in the setup. If forced is the default track and they are turned on in the setup, yes.

The issues I usually have is it always displays subtitles if it is on in the setup, so if you don't want them you can turn them off with the remote at during the movie. When you turn them off with the remote, it usually changes them to off in the setup. I don't know when it doesn't but usually it does. Then when you play a movie that needs subtitles, you can't turn them on until you go into the setup and turn them back on. I usually leave them off until I need them, then you can pause the movie and hit setup and turn them back on, then select which subtitle track you want. 99% of the time I don't want them so it's no big deal, but when you do it's kind of a pain in the ass.

It should just start subtitles set to off if they are not forced and allow you to turn them on if you need them. I was told this is some issue with realtek and the sdk.
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post #92 of 259
2/6/12 at 8:51am
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Does it at least respect forced subs (tagged as such via MKVMerge) inside MKV's?

When I tested it did not. I want to retest with a few more samples, but ideally you want to be able to leave subtitles off completely and if forced subs are present they would display (which currently they dont).

Brajesh, did you test with your 900B to see if forced subs work?

It does appear that the 1185 and 1186 share similar bugs. Funny enough on the Mede8er I have been watching a TV show which has MPEG 2ch Audio, and it plays fine. I was in my bedroom and decided to test out the Prodigy so I played the same file and I got no sound. Figuring it was the Prodigy I turned on the 900B (which I had in that room also), and same thing, no sound. So I went back into the guest room where the Mede8er is and sure enough sound lol
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post #93 of 259
2/6/12 at 8:58am
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Brajesh, did you test with your 900B to see if forced subs work?

I did; forced subs don't work on HD900B. So, your theory about this issue plaguing Realtek 1185/1186-based streamers in general seems to be correct.
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post #94 of 259
2/6/12 at 9:09am
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Originally Posted by Swamibob View Post

Not if subtitles is turned off in the setup. If forced is the default track and they are turned on in the setup, yes.

The issues I usually have is it always displays subtitles if it is on in the setup, so if you don't want them you can turn them off with the remote at during the movie. When you turn them off with the remote, it usually changes them to off in the setup. I don't know when it doesn't but usually it does. Then when you play a movie that needs subtitles, you can't turn them on until you go into the setup and turn them back on. I usually leave them off until I need them, then you can pause the movie and hit setup and turn them back on, then select which subtitle track you want. 99% of the time I don't want them so it's no big deal, but when you do it's kind of a pain in the ass.

It should just start subtitles set to off if they are not forced and allow you to turn them on if you need them. I was told this is some issue with realtek and the sdk.

So in general subtitles are a hot mess with the Realtek sdk on both the 1185 and 1186. Funny enough on the Xtreamer (1186) there isn't even an option in the setings to turn on and off, they are just on (so you need to manually shut off each time you watch a movie). I forget what the HiMedia does.

I guess it does make sense t hat the 1185 and 1186 share a lot of similarities. At least the Mede8er has a functional UI, can't say the same about the 1186 players I have looked at.

I need to test out some of the new skins for the Mede8er as well, I like the StreamedMP one (i think that got the most votes). On the jukebox side, are there any other jukeboxes aside from the YAMJ hybrid one?
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post #95 of 259
2/6/12 at 9:41am
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I forget what the HiMedia does.

There's a setting labeled 'Subtitle Automation Recognition', which at first I thought meant forced subs, but it appears to do nothing. So, you either leave subs always on or off, no forced subs.
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post #96 of 259
2/6/12 at 9:47am
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There's a setting labeled 'Subtitle Automation Recognition', which at first I thought meant forced subs, but it appears to do nothing. So, you either leave subs always on or off, no forced subs.

Which, and although I am not a big sub user, I do find it odd that proper subtitle support appears to have such poor support given that you would think a decent user base of these devices relies on subtitles (anime, international users, etc...).
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post #97 of 259
2/6/12 at 6:39pm
From my experience, subtitles have to be set to on in the setup or you cannot ever view the subtitles or even get a subtitle list, period. If they are set to on, it always displays the first subtitle track unless you set them back to off with the remote. Then at that point they are set to off in the setup instead of just for that movie.

The hardest time i had was figuring out why the movies were all saying no subtitles in movies that I knew had subtitles when I first upgraded from my 500X to my 500X2, and then figuring out that it was set to off in the setup when I know I set it to on. The second hardest thing was figuring out that when I was turned them off while watching a movie it was actually changing an option in the setup area so the next time i played a movie, the subtitles were not available again only to find out it was set back to off. I don't understand why it even needs an option in setup for subtitles. It should just not display subtitles by default unless it is forced. If you want subtitles you should just be able to push the subtitles button and turn them on if they are available. It makes no sense that if subtitles is turned off in the setup you cannot even see if the file has subtitles in it. It seems like Realtek would have made it work the same way it did on their 1073 chipset.

On a brighter note, Mede8er is about to release a new firmware to add a music jukebox to the 500X2. From their website "Soon you will be able to make a Music Jukebox from any music folder on your Hard Drive, USB Drive or Network Share with Album Cover support. New Firmware V2.0.4 (soon to be released) will make it so easy to search music Titles or to sort your music collection by Genre, Artist, Year, Latest and to make Quick Playlists from your favourite Albums. "

I have been beta testing it and it is working well. A few bug left but about ready for prime time. Takes it a little while for the first scan to build a music.db file from the tags for fast searching, but nice addition for people who have large music collections.
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post #98 of 259
2/7/12 at 5:08am
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Originally Posted by Swamibob View Post

From my experience, subtitles have to be set to on in the setup or you cannot ever view the subtitles or even get a subtitle list, period. If they are set to on, it always displays the first subtitle track unless you set them back to off with the remote. Then at that point they are set to off in the setup instead of just for that movie.

The hardest time i had was figuring out why the movies were all saying no subtitles in movies that I knew had subtitles when I first upgraded from my 500X to my 500X2, and then figuring out that it was set to off in the setup when I know I set it to on. The second hardest thing was figuring out that when I was turned them off while watching a movie it was actually changing an option in the setup area so the next time i played a movie, the subtitles were not available again only to find out it was set back to off. I don't understand why it even needs an option in setup for subtitles. It should just not display subtitles by default unless it is forced. If you want subtitles you should just be able to push the subtitles button and turn them on if they are available. It makes no sense that if subtitles is turned off in the setup you cannot even see if the file has subtitles in it. It seems like Realtek would have made it work the same way it did on their 1073 chipset.

On a brighter note, Mede8er is about to release a new firmware to add a music jukebox to the 500X2. From their website "Soon you will be able to make a Music Jukebox from any music folder on your Hard Drive, USB Drive or Network Share with Album Cover support. New Firmware V2.0.4 (soon to be released) will make it so easy to search music Titles or to sort your music collection by Genre, Artist, Year, Latest and to make Quick Playlists from your favourite Albums. "

I have been beta testing it and it is working well. A few bug left but about ready for prime time. Takes it a little while for the first scan to build a music.db file from the tags for fast searching, but nice addition for people who have large music collections.


Have an idea how "soon" the new fw will be released. If you think in the next few weeks I will hold off on my review to test with that fw
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post #99 of 259
2/7/12 at 5:46am
dbone,

Did you test both YAMJ to Mede8er and ThumbGen? I was using YAMJ, but it has too many mistakes whenever it completes the scrapping, and it is a pain to manually fix the mistakes. However, I've been using ThumbGen for my Mede8er V2 and AIOS, and it is 100% accurate so far.
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post #100 of 259
2/7/12 at 5:59am
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dbone,

Did you test both YAMJ to Mede8er and ThumbGen? I was using YAMJ, but it has too many mistakes whenever it completes the scrapping, and it is a pain to manually fix the mistakes. However, I've been using ThumbGen for my Mede8er V2 and AIOS, and it is 100% accurate so far.

I haven't tried Thumbgen yet. Have you tried any of the new skins?

I have YAMJ running anyhow for my PCHs so it isn't a pain to maintain (and actually I shut off the YAMJ scraping and use what I generate from my metadata programs to avoid any YAMJ issues)
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post #101 of 259
2/7/12 at 6:14am
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I haven't tried Thumbgen yet. Have you tried any of the new skins?

I have YAMJ running anyhow for my PCHs so it isn't a pain to maintain (and actually I shut off the YAMJ scraping and use what I generate from my metadata programs to avoid any YAMJ issues)

Yes, I have tried the new skins, and I usually change them weekly just to be have something different. They are pretty cool, and I like the feature.

In my opinion ThumbGen is easier to use and it give you the option to scrap the movies manually, which I do all the time since I like to change the background, poster, folder and other art to whatever I like, which isn't an option with YAMJ to Mede8er.

I was really surprised me when ThumbGen scrapped my movies, and it was 100% accurate with all of them. I also read that with ThumbGen you are able to do TV shows, but I haven't got to that yet since I am trying to finish my unRaid server.
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post #102 of 259
2/7/12 at 6:37am
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Yes, I have tried the new skins, and I usually change them weekly just to be have something different. They are pretty cool, and I like the feature.

In my opinion ThumbGen is easier to use and it give you the option to scrap the movies manually, which I do all the time since I like to change the background, poster, folder and other art to whatever I like, which isn't an option with YAMJ to Mede8er.

I was really surprised me when ThumbGen scrapped my movies, and it was 100% accurate with all of them. I also read that with ThumbGen you are able to do TV shows, but I haven't got to that yet since I am trying to finish my unRaid server.

And you simply access Thumbgen on your Mede8er in the same fashion that you would access YAMJ on the mede8er, or is it its own jukebox?
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post #103 of 259
2/7/12 at 7:00am
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And you simply access Thumbgen on your Mede8er in the same fashion that you would access YAMJ on the mede8er, or is it its own jukebox?

Yeap. It's pretty much the same thing.

Here's a how to from the mede8er forum:

http://www.mede8erforum.com/index.php/topic,7114.0.html
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post #104 of 259
2/7/12 at 3:14pm
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Have an idea how "soon" the new fw will be released. If you think in the next few weeks I will hold off on my review to test with that fw

They are saying another beta in days and the final by mid February so I would think a couple of weeks, but you know how firmware builds can go. All I can tell you from the last one I have been testing, it looked to be close and that was a Jan 19th release.
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post #105 of 259
2/7/12 at 3:20pm
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Originally Posted by GusGus748s View Post

Yeap. It's pretty much the same thing.

Here's a how to from the mede8er forum:

http://www.mede8erforum.com/index.php/topic,7114.0.html

So I had a chance to use ThumbGen. On a small sample of movies it works fine. However, what I don't like is that it overwrites the folder.jpg that I have with lower quality ones. I will have to shut that off.

For TV Shows for the Mede8er it only works if you have each episode in its own folder which is just plain silly. So in other words no proper TV Show support for the Mede8er I assume this would require a dedicated 3rd party jukebox
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post #106 of 259
2/7/12 at 3:29pm
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Here is another one. Each movie is in its own folder. Is there a way that when you click enter on the folder it will just start the movie instead of actually navigating to it. I know my clicking the play button you can do this, but it just seems counter intuitive to do so. I assume this works as is because this is not a "real" jukebox per se but more of a hybrid mashup of file/folder structure with some art/metadata attached
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post #107 of 259
2/7/12 at 3:59pm
Hmmmm, I'm getting the sense I don't need to wait for your review. I think your comments already have saved me wasted shipping and restocking fee charges.
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post #108 of 259
2/7/12 at 4:11pm
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Hmmmm, I'm getting the sense I don't need to wait for your review. I think your comments already have saved me wasted shipping and restocking fee charges.

To be fair I wouldn't read too much into my comments quite yet. From a jukebox standpoint (versus using YAMJ, My Movies, Zappiti, etc...) the Mede8er jukebox is behind. Now that doesn't mean it is by any means bad, I think it is a very nice start in the right direction. For me personally TV Shows are important, so not having proper support is a negative. However, the next person may not care about this so it isn't an issue. There are a few other things with the jukebox that fall short for me, but really every jukebox has its pluses and minuses.

From a playback standpoint I have been using the Mede8er for easily over a month and have encountered only one or two playback issues. It isn't the main player in my house so it doesn't get pushed like the others, but nonetheless it has performed well. When I use my test files I got slightly more mixed results (especially once you start factoring in a variety of subtitles, seamless branch discs, full disc rips, etc...).

I will try to get all my thoughts together and hopefully get a review posted later this week or early next week.
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post #109 of 259
2/7/12 at 9:46pm
PLAY FOLDER
Mede8er allows you to play a video file within a folder without the need to open the folder. Just focus on the required folder and press the ‘Play’ or ‘FF’ button. The first video file found in the folder will be played. The folder play will only work with video files.

This if from the latest users manual for fw 2.0.3, the one that has the media scan function that builds a searchable movie database, where you can search your movies by genre, year, star rating, etc according to your metadata. Here is a link if you haven't read through the latest edition that includes all the features of 2.0.3 and how they all work.
http://www.mede8er.com/images/USER_I..._24Dec2011.pdf

Also, here is how jukebox mode works if on or off in the setup. This should get all of your episodes in the jukebox with the rest of your movies. You have to do the scan of the drive for it to build the movie database the first time, or when you add new movies you do a rescan.

JukeBox View
In Setup under ‘Misc Options’ you can select JukeBox View -- on/off
JukeBox View ‘off’ - Favourite Links to a Jukebox will be presented in a normal structure and you can navigate the scanned Folders and Sub Folders folder as you normally would in the Media Library.
JukeBox View ‘on’ - Favourite Links to Jukebox will be presented in JukeBox View ie 16 Covers in a flat display. The internal folder structure of the folder will be ignored.

I guess I never had an issue with tv episodes since I always kept them in a separate folder for each show and then a secondary one for each season.

The new firmware including the music jukebox should be out in a couple of weeks.

djc11369: If you want a solid player that can stream 1080p high bitrate with DTS-HD or True-HD audio though a samba share on your network without glitching, you will like this player. If you want a company that fixes bugs and adds new features after it is released, like the movie jukebox and the new music jukebox which will be out soon, you will like this player. I think you will find that there are a lot more pro's to this player than there are con's.
The only gripe I have about it is the way the subtitles work, and that has to do with realtek and all 1185 players.
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post #110 of 259
2/8/12 at 12:32am
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To be fair I wouldn't read too much into my comments quite yet. From a jukebox standpoint (versus using YAMJ, My Movies, Zappiti, etc...) the Mede8er jukebox is behind. Now that doesn't mean it is by any means bad, I think it is a very nice start in the right direction. For me personally TV Shows are important, so not having proper support is a negative. However, the next person may not care about this so it isn't an issue. There are a few other things with the jukebox that fall short for me, but really every jukebox has its pluses and minuses.

From a playback standpoint I have been using the Mede8er for easily over a month and have encountered only one or two playback issues. It isn't the main player in my house so it doesn't get pushed like the others, but nonetheless it has performed well. When I use my test files I got slightly more mixed results (especially once you start factoring in a variety of subtitles, seamless branch discs, full disc rips, etc...).

I will try to get all my thoughts together and hopefully get a review posted later this week or early next week.

Yeah, I've got to press play in order to play the movie. If I push enter it will go in to the folder and I'll see all the posters, folder, metadata etc.

I believer there is an option that will let you keep your previous metadata.
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post #111 of 259
2/8/12 at 12:34am
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PLAY FOLDER
Mede8er allows you to play a video file within a folder without the need to open the folder. Just focus on the required folder and press the Play' or FF' button. The first video file found in the folder will be played. The folder play will only work with video files.

This if from the latest users manual for fw 2.0.3, the one that has the media scan function that builds a searchable movie database, where you can search your movies by genre, year, star rating, etc according to your metadata. Here is a link if you haven't read through the latest edition that includes all the features of 2.0.3 and how they all work.
http://www.mede8er.com/images/USER_I..._24Dec2011.pdf

Also, here is how jukebox mode works if on or off in the setup. This should get all of your episodes in the jukebox with the rest of your movies. You have to do the scan of the drive for it to build the movie database the first time, or when you add new movies you do a rescan.

JukeBox View
In Setup under Misc Options' you can select JukeBox View -- on/off
JukeBox View off' - Favourite Links to a Jukebox will be presented in a normal structure and you can navigate the scanned Folders and Sub Folders folder as you normally would in the Media Library.
JukeBox View on' - Favourite Links to Jukebox will be presented in JukeBox View ie 16 Covers in a flat display. The internal folder structure of the folder will be ignored.

I guess I never had an issue with tv episodes since I always kept them in a separate folder for each show and then a secondary one for each season.

The new firmware including the music jukebox should be out in a couple of weeks.

djc11369: If you want a solid player that can stream 1080p high bitrate with DTS-HD or True-HD audio though a samba share on your network without glitching, you will like this player. If you want a company that fixes bugs and adds new features after it is released, like the movie jukebox and the new music jukebox which will be out soon, you will like this player. I think you will find that there are a lot more pro's to this player than there are con's.
The only gripe I have about it is the way the subtitles work, and that has to do with realtek and all 1185 players.

I agree. I think the mede8er is an excellent player with the two down sides being : not being able to play force subs and not being able to recognize tv shows.

Other than that I like it.
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post #112 of 259
2/8/12 at 1:58am
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Originally Posted by Swamibob View Post

PLAY FOLDER
Mede8er allows you to play a video file within a folder without the need to open the folder. Just focus on the required folder and press the ‘Play’ or ‘FF’ button. The first video file found in the folder will be played. The folder play will only work with video files.

This if from the latest users manual for fw 2.0.3, the one that has the media scan function that builds a searchable movie database, where you can search your movies by genre, year, star rating, etc according to your metadata. Here is a link if you haven't read through the latest edition that includes all the features of 2.0.3 and how they all work.
http://www.mede8er.com/images/USER_I..._24Dec2011.pdf

Also, here is how jukebox mode works if on or off in the setup. This should get all of your episodes in the jukebox with the rest of your movies. You have to do the scan of the drive for it to build the movie database the first time, or when you add new movies you do a rescan.

JukeBox View
In Setup under ‘Misc Options’ you can select JukeBox View -- on/off
JukeBox View ‘off’ - Favourite Links to a Jukebox will be presented in a normal structure and you can navigate the scanned Folders and Sub Folders folder as you normally would in the Media Library.
JukeBox View ‘on’ - Favourite Links to Jukebox will be presented in JukeBox View ie 16 Covers in a flat display. The internal folder structure of the folder will be ignored.

I guess I never had an issue with tv episodes since I always kept them in a separate folder for each show and then a secondary one for each season.

The new firmware including the music jukebox should be out in a couple of weeks.

djc11369: If you want a solid player that can stream 1080p high bitrate with DTS-HD or True-HD audio though a samba share on your network without glitching, you will like this player. If you want a company that fixes bugs and adds new features after it is released, like the movie jukebox and the new music jukebox which will be out soon, you will like this player. I think you will find that there are a lot more pro's to this player than there are con's.
The only gripe I have about it is the way the subtitles work, and that has to do with realtek and all 1185 players.

Thanks. I understand the Play folder concept as that is what I had mentioned as well. My issue with this is you lose a bit of family friendliness with this. So when navigating around you click the enter button to move to the next level, but then suddenly when you want to play something you have to remember to hit the Play button instead. It is just counter intuitive, especially when you are used to dealing with Proper jukeboxes on other devices (such as with the Dunes and PCHs). Quite often I find myself hitting enter then having to navigate back out of the folder to then hit "Play", and I know this would lose some points with the wife as well.

I don't believe it is standard practice to have each episode in its own folder (honestly it makes no sense to do it this way), so that is where in my view TV Show support is broken/non existent.

Also keep in mind that aside from proper subtitle support the Mede8er does run into issues with full disc Blu ray rips (I encountered issues with various settings such as subtitles refusing to shut off) and seamless branch rips. These issues however are rather common among many media players, and most likely is attributed to not having a Blu-ray license (BD Lite is general is rather hit or miss)
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post #113 of 259
2/8/12 at 6:04am
So the issue with TV series is that you don't have individual meta data for each episode? That is the only reason I put my Big Bang Theory all in separate episode folders (and manually added the synopsis to the .xml file and the yamj file before it generated the about.jpg since yamj didn't pull individual episode data, only the general description of the show. I wanted a synopses for each episode that was the only way to get that. For other shows, I do just have them all in one season folder, like /tv/fringe/season 1 then they all just list out on one page. How are other players handling this differently? Is it in the way they read the metadata for each episode all out of one folder.

I think most of the full bluray rip problems stem from the java menus which are not supported.
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post #114 of 259
2/8/12 at 6:11am
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So the issue with TV series is that you don't have individual meta data for each episode? That is the only reason I put my Big Bang Theory all in separate episode folders (and manually added the synopsis to the .xml file and the yamj file before it generated the about.jpg since yamj didn't pull individual episode data, only the general description of the show. I wanted a synopses for each episode that was the only way to get that. For other shows, I do just have them all in one season folder, like /tv/fringe/season 1 then they all just list out on one page. How are other players handling this differently? Is it in the way they read the metadata for each episode all out of one folder.

I think most of the full bluray rip problems stem from the java menus which are not supported.

No, I have individual metadata for each show, but the metadata is in the same "Season" folder as all the episodes. It is generally not standard practice to have to put each episode in its own folder. Typically you have all episodes under the main Show folder or under the respective season folder.

All other jukeboxes I use read this fine and either of the two methods I listed above is what they look for. This is the difference from the Mede8er jukebox. The Mede8er jukebox relies on the folder structure for each video to keep it as basic as possible. The full features jukeboxes actually analyze and create all the proper linking (if you see below here is a typical wall view of all episodes for a season, click on the episode and you see the ep details as well as initiating playback). The Mede8er simply relies on some xml and jpg generated files.

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post #115 of 259
2/8/12 at 6:33am
Do any of the stand alone players like popcorn hour do this? This looks like a screenshot from what I assume would be how you would do this using an HTPC? I agree, that is nice seeing a pic from each episode instead of all the same pic and the episode number and title under it which is actually the file name you make it.

You could manually do this using jukebox mode and manually modifying the folder.jpg, although it will be displayed in the jukebox together with all of your other videos on the drive. They would have to be in separate episode folders so each could have it's own folder.jpg.
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post #116 of 259
2/8/12 at 6:37am
I was messing around with the Mede8er before I start my unRaid server, and my wife came in to the living room, and she said, "If it makes it any better I like the one in our bedroom better."

So, I'm like are you freaking serious. Should I take this as, you should sell the Mede8er and get another AIOS or what?....she smiled and walked away.

I'm kinda upset because we talked about it, and we agreed on buying the Mede8er. I could of saved $140 bucks by just getting the AIOS.

Anyone want to buy a Mede8er MED500X2, which has been used for less than 4 months?
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post #117 of 259
2/8/12 at 6:41am
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Originally Posted by Swamibob View Post

Do any of the stand alone players like popcorn hour do this? This looks like a screenshot from what I assume would be how you would do this using an HTPC? I agree, that is nice seeing a pic from each episode instead of all the same pic and the episode number and title under it which is actually the file name you make it.

You could manually do this using jukebox mode and manually modifying the folder.jpg, although it will be displayed in the jukebox together with all of your other videos on the drive. They would have to be in separate episode folders so each could have it's own folder.jpg.

That is actually a screenshot from Dune, not an HTPC. PCH does it the same exact way.

EDIT - I should mention the actual screenshot is from my PC, but that is exactly how it displays on the Dune. This applies for the Dune via Zappiti, yaDIS, My Movies, DFI and PCH via YAMJ, UMC, etc...

I don't know if I have ever seen a fully featured video jukebox for the Realtek players (I know AC Ryan had YAMJ but not sure if it was the same hybrid type jukebox as Mede8er uses)
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post #118 of 259
2/8/12 at 7:11am
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Also, here are a few other TV Show views from PCH (via YAMJ/Eversion):



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post #119 of 259
2/9/12 at 8:08am
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Originally Posted by GusGus748s View Post

I was messing around with the Mede8er before I start my unRaid server, and my wife came in to the living room, and she said, "If it makes it any better I like the one in our bedroom better."

So, I'm like are you freaking serious. Should I take this as, you should sell the Mede8er and get another AIOS or what?....she smiled and walked away.

I'm kinda upset because we talked about it, and we agreed on buying the Mede8er. I could of saved $140 bucks by just getting the AIOS.

Anyone want to buy a Mede8er MED500X2, which has been used for less than 4 months?

Did they get DTS-MA passthrough working on the AIOS yet? That alone would be a deal breaker for me.

I have read the problem with that player is poor firmware, sluggish interface and having to play around with user supported semi-official versions of the firmware to fix problems. This is what you are paying the extra money for with the mede8er products, although I must admit, for $100 with the basic functionality as the MED500X2 is quite a steal.

What is it that your wife likes about it over the 500x2?
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2/9/12 at 8:17am
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Originally Posted by dbone1026 View Post

Also, here are a few other TV Show views from PCH (via YAMJ/Eversion):




I see what you mean now. I do like that PCH layout for tv series. I think mede8er has focused more on the movie side of media player, and now they are focusing on the music aspect. Hopefully they will revisit the tv series/episode support as it would be nice to have better support in that area. To me it is not a big deal since I really don't watch that much tv stuff on it, and when I do, I find what I want from either the info that I spent a lot of time updating or from reading through the episode file names for the ones I didn't take the time to do.
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