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Device for 1080p MKVs with 5.1 or 7.1 FLAC - help!

post #1 of 9
3/29/12 at 1:18am
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Hi all, OK I have been pretty much pulling my hair out trying to find a media player that can play all my 1080p Blu-ray MKV's streamed over gigabit/ethernet, which all have either 5.1 or 7.1 FLAC (or some mono/stereo).

just using a Sony 40" 1080p to view on via HDMI, no receiver

Thus far I have tried, and the issues they have:

Boxee Box - all can play fine, but can't navigate without it freezing/locking up due to lack of bandwidth?
Netgear NeoTV 550 - 7.1 FLAC gives no sound, VC-1 files stutter
Popcorn Hour A-300 - 7.1 FLAC gives no sound.

So.... what now? Can anyone suggest anything that works flawlessly for what I want?

Should I go to a mini HTPC instead? If so any suggestions?
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post #2 of 9
3/29/12 at 2:44am
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Originally Posted by XxDeadlyxX View Post

Hi all, OK I have been pretty much pulling my hair out trying to find a media player that can play all my 1080p Blu-ray MKV's streamed over gigabit/ethernet, which all have either 5.1 or 7.1 FLAC (or some mono/stereo).

just using a Sony 40" 1080p to view on via HDMI, no receiver

Thus far I have tried, and the issues they have:

Boxee Box - all can play fine, but can't navigate without it freezing/locking up due to lack of bandwidth?
Netgear NeoTV 550 - 7.1 FLAC gives no sound, VC-1 files stutter
Popcorn Hour A-300 - 7.1 FLAC gives no sound.

So.... what now? Can anyone suggest anything that works flawlessly for what I want?

Should I go to a mini HTPC instead? If so any suggestions?

Dune?
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post #3 of 9
3/29/12 at 3:07am
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Originally Posted by GusGus748s View Post

Dune?

And who's to say that will work either? 4th time lucky?

Unless someone can confirm....
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post #4 of 9
3/29/12 at 3:11am
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Originally Posted by XxDeadlyxX View Post

And who's to say that will work either? 4th time lucky?

Unless someone can confirm....

That's why I put a question mark at the end. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. I am sure someone else will have some experience with this
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post #5 of 9
3/29/12 at 3:38am
dune can do 5.1 flac.

i'll see if i have a 7.1 flac to try!
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post #6 of 9
3/29/12 at 3:51am
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Thanks,

To make things more clear, again I am only hooking the media player direct to TV, so everything would be downmixed to stereo anyway probably (which is what I want), but just getting no sound with my MKV's which are encoded with 7.1 flac except Boxee,

Boxee lets me seek OK if I roll back to 1.1.x firmware, but then the PQ is worse.... (luminence issues?)

So none of the three players are perfect, the Netgear is definitely out though as it stutters bigtime with VC1 mkv's.
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post #7 of 9
3/29/12 at 5:29pm
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Originally Posted by XxDeadlyxX View Post

Hi all, OK I have been pretty much pulling my hair out trying to find a media player that can play all my 1080p Blu-ray MKV's streamed over gigabit/ethernet, which all have either 5.1 or 7.1 FLAC (or some mono/stereo).

just using a Sony 40" 1080p to view on via HDMI, no receiver

Thus far I have tried, and the issues they have:

Boxee Box - all can play fine, but can't navigate without it freezing/locking up due to lack of bandwidth?
Netgear NeoTV 550 - 7.1 FLAC gives no sound, VC-1 files stutter
Popcorn Hour A-300 - 7.1 FLAC gives no sound.

So.... what now? Can anyone suggest anything that works flawlessly for what I want?

Should I go to a mini HTPC instead? If so any suggestions?

Just to clarify, since you are not using a Digital A/V receiver, you want the media player to downmix FLAC5.1/7.1 into stereo straight to playback to your Sony HDTV's speakers?

I have several media players I'll test them out see what are the results... what are your MKV sizes btw?
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post #8 of 9
3/29/12 at 5:36pm
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Originally Posted by sgvroadster View Post

Just to clarify, since you are not using a Digital A/V receiver, you want the media player to downmix FLAC5.1/7.1 into stereo straight to playback to your Sony HDTV's speakers?

I have several media players I'll test them out see what are the results... what are your MKV sizes btw?

Yes that is correct. I mainly want this to watch the more casual titles where audio is not a big deal - ie. Criterion titles, but not having some titles work at all (those that are 7.1) is no good.

MKV sizes are anywhere from 15 to 40gb.
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post #9 of 9
3/29/12 at 10:19pm
Dune Smart series
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