I have the PCH connected to a Linksys WAP in bridge mode only 802.11g WiFi only.

I fired up an episode of Everyone Hates Chris (HD broadcast) that I pulled off my TiVo and ran through VideoReDo TVSuite to spit it out as a regular .mpg so I can watch it on other devices. It stutters pretty bad, which I kind of expected. Apparently, witht he TP-LINK 802.11n adaptor and an N connection, you can stream 720p no problem, and I think I read of people doing 1080p. I have an Airport Extreme for dedicated N use, so I may get the TP-LINK and try it. I have some x264 BD rips I've downloaded, what kind of Mbps would those have? If I did wired 100meg ethernet, would I have enough throughput? Yes, 100Mb is enough

I'm connected HDMI -> TV and optical -> receiver. All audio options are set to "Digital (RAW)" in setup. When I go into MSP and into YouTube, I get no audio, any idea what I have to do to fix that?I haven't tried the online stuff yet

What's MovieJukebox? Is that an add in or the native interface? I'm noticing a lot of stuff REQUIRES an HDD so you can install daemon's and what not.MovieJukeBox is an awesome movie interface that gets all movie info and artwork from IMDB and puts it in a cool GUI so you can browse through movies, select the one you want, read a summary and get the movie details, and play if you want. Here is the website: http://code.google.com/p/moviejukebox/. It's all XML coding though and I'm still working on getting it to work. Installing it is pretty easy, and I can get all the artwork and GUI working but then the movies don't play. It's got to be a small setting somewhere. Never forget with these devices: they're running UNIX/Linux so everything is case sensitive!! :). I don't think you need an internal hard drive to do this. Only if you want to use any of the server services (FTP, Bittorrent, SMB server, NFS server, etc...

What would the MyiHome give me? I don't have any straight ISO's I would need to stream really, so I wouldn't have to deal with that limitations. I have a lot of DivX though.MyiHome is the software you install on your computer and configure it to stream your media to the PCH. I'm pretty sure it uses HTTP for file transfer. It's just another method of getting the files to the device. Here are the streaming speeds they list on the wiki (http://networkedmediatank.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page):

SMB: ~38Mbps
NFS: ~33Mbps
HTTP: ~42Mbps (same clip peaks at 47Mbps)
USB HDD: ~ 42Mbps
USB DVDROM (8x): ~42Mbps
Internal HDD: ~42Mbps


It sucks that you can't an SMB source as the computer itself, and then just browse into folders. I only have 3 folders anyway, so it's not a huge deal.I don't understand what you're saying here. If you create a share on your computer, and give a local account access, you then go into "Network Share" in Setup and specify the share and can then play files. Each SMB share shows as it's own independent listing in the list of sources.

Some guy started a thread recently on networkedmediatank.com about XBMC vs PCH. He brings up a lot of good points. Hopefully a few of them will be fixed in a new firmware (because they ARE things that can be fixed). Other things are just not possible because an NMT isn't a PC like XBox is.

BIGGEST complaint... No onscreen keyboard. Major suck fest for typing shit in. It's pretty much a necessity to use a KB of some sorts. My wife likes to pull up YouTube on the Wii, but I think it would be better on the PCH with a KB. I see that wireless USB KB should work, but haven't found enough info to know if only specific models would. The BT-USB dinovo mini apparently works on the PCH with a few quirks for navigation, but I don't mind navigating with the remote. Biggest issue would be that people say the PCH hangs when the dongle is connected at boot, but unclear if that's from a cold boot or from standby mode. I'll be leaving mine in standby mode as opposed to full power off most likely, so it might work.

A dinovo mini sized true USB wireless KB would be nice.

THe Keysonic deally works (http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_3079.html) but that's larger then I'd like, and don't need the touch pad really. I guess it would come in handy if I ever did a true HTPC.

I think, at the end of the day, a true HTPC running XBMC would be ideal for me. But I estimate the cost to build that out at $500-600, and I'd really only be gaining a slicker UI for what I expect the device to do.

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