![]() Good post! I hadn’t tried the bit torrent client. Popcorn Hour A-100, Part 1: SetupReview: Popcorn Hour A-100, Part 1: Setup » on Review: Popcorn Hour A-100, Part 2: Video, Audio and TorrentReview: Popcorn Hour A-100, Part 2: Video, Audio and Torrent » on Review: Popcorn Unbox Gadget Review: Popcorn Hour A-100 » Said,.Comments Review: Popcorn Hour A-100, Part 2: Video, Audio and Torrent » on Review: Popcorn Hour A-100, Part 1: SetupReview: Popcorn Hour A-100, Part 2: Video, Review: Popcorn Hour A-100, Part 1: Setup » Said,.Posted under Popcorn Hour, reviews, tech gadgets If you want a cheap video box that supports every format, I can’t recommend it enough.įor Part 3 (and final) review, I’ll cover the Media Services Portal! Web content that will keep you constantly watching new content. Also, the PCH works very well as a shared hard drive–i’ve played videos stored on the PCH hard drive over the network on my computer and they’ve played without any issues. The Popcorn Hour is great for playing files over your network or locally on the PCH. m3u’s? Also why not just play all the files in a directory like every other MP3 player works? I’m hoping this will be addressed in future firmware fixes. This is inexcusable, as this feature could be easily remedied with firmware. I also can’t figure out to get it to play more than one audio track at a time. No screenshots for this (hey, it’s audio afterall), but I must warn you: the Popcorn Hour is terrible for mp3 playback. mov which plays just fine on the Popcorn Hour (my mediagate can’t play. There is now a ‘downloads’ directory on the hard drive–it must be in there. So where is it? It doesn’t tell you, but it must be local on the PCH hard drive somewhere. It’s done– and I let it seed for a bit before stopping it. Knowing that the folks who produce LOST have put out some cool viral videos, I thought I’d do a search for that:Īh, the Orchid Station! Stuff here is still a mystery even after the LOST 4th season finale–and this video was made before the 4th season! Wait, sorry, this isn’t a LOST blog post, back to how the torrents download on the PCH: Under the Media Services Portal Menu, I navigated to the “Vuze” link which is a video torrent site: Though I haven’t used this a lot, with the test I did, the A-100 performed well: I’ll be covering the web services / Media Service Portal in Part 3, but I wanted to show how torrents work on the box. A few screen shots showing pause,fast forward, file info and video resizing ( Gladiator was playing when I did this, so some of the images are blurry). I think I only had one audio/video synch issue, but that file was so messed up I had the issue with almost every device except for a computer. I’ve played various types of xvid, divx, wmv, mov and have played them all without an issue. I’ve spent quite a bit of time using the device, and for video playback, it is spectacular. But for now, HomePlug is getting the job done. ![]() I’m still using this, but now that 802.11n is coming close to standardization, I’m looking forward to trying some wireless that should leap-frog the HomePlug AV solution in both convenience and performance. In Part 1 of my review, I detailed my setup with HomePlug AV. Popcorn Hour A-100 Part 3: Media Service Portal (coming soon)įinally, my second part of the Popcorn Hour review. ![]() ![]()
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