Hi everyone. I've been reading through a lot of threads, but still can't seem to make up my mind what media player to buy. I have been looking into the Dunes and med8er 500x2 mostly.
My setup is a 40" TV that I will connect via HDMI for video and then optical audio to a switch that goes to my receiver. The receiver only has 1 optical input so I have a harmony one remote that controls everything for me so I don't have to worry about my optical switch. I also have a Windows Server 2008 R2 in another room that is on 24/7 that has a fair bit of blu ray ISO rips from my collection. Also have most of those in just the m2ts file form with foreign languages stripped and etc.
What I'm looking for in a player is something that can handle uncompressed blu ray quality files over the network if possible. I have a wired gigabit connection going through the walls so the bandwidth is there. I have read that some players will still stutter on the high bit rate parts of a scene no matter what connection you have plugged into them. If possible I was hoping to not have to put a hard drive in the player to ensure smooth playback, but I guess I could. Just seems like a hassle to drag movies to the streamer before watching them when I have TB's of storage in my server already.
I'm open to suggestions and not sure if I described everything clearly, so let me know if you need more clarification.
My setup is a 40" TV that I will connect via HDMI for video and then optical audio to a switch that goes to my receiver. The receiver only has 1 optical input so I have a harmony one remote that controls everything for me so I don't have to worry about my optical switch. I also have a Windows Server 2008 R2 in another room that is on 24/7 that has a fair bit of blu ray ISO rips from my collection. Also have most of those in just the m2ts file form with foreign languages stripped and etc.
What I'm looking for in a player is something that can handle uncompressed blu ray quality files over the network if possible. I have a wired gigabit connection going through the walls so the bandwidth is there. I have read that some players will still stutter on the high bit rate parts of a scene no matter what connection you have plugged into them. If possible I was hoping to not have to put a hard drive in the player to ensure smooth playback, but I guess I could. Just seems like a hassle to drag movies to the streamer before watching them when I have TB's of storage in my server already.
I'm open to suggestions and not sure if I described everything clearly, so let me know if you need more clarification.