I stopped using it.

I contacted Roku support to return it inside the 30 day window, and they said they would try to fix things, and would still allow the return if problems persisted. Well, problems continued and they won’t allow return of the player.

Stay far, far away from Roku.

They also provide an easy to use API that interfaces with the services.

http://www.orb.com

i use TVersity. http://www.tversity.com pretty stable, on the fly transcoding, uses few resources (so it will run on about any PC, but i run it on a poweredge), can stream to a large variety of devices, also can include web services such as youtube, metacafe, etc. of course you need something to stream to…i use my xbox 360–but it will stream to almost anything. also will stream across the internet (if you wanna open up your firewall).

overall im very satisfied and its free!

(unless any of your media isn’t MPEG2, Divx, or AVC, in which case you better start transcoding =-)

@9: you can also hotswap your hard drive. It’s, uh, a bit terrifying, but I’ve never had a problem with it — it should be fine if you’re careful. You just open your xbox, turn it on with no AV cable connected, then wait till your power light starts flashing. Then, you pull the data cable from your hard drive (eep, I know), and plug it into your PC. It’s still getting power from the Xbox, so the unlock command that’s already been issued stays in effect. Then, boot xboxhdm (it’s a livecd) and copy your saves over. Easy-peasy.

If my ol’ Xbox hadn’t died on me, I’d still be using XBMC. Their MythTV plugin was great. As it is, I don’t have enough hookups to use my new-gen systems *and* the old one, so I do most of my streaming to the PS3, but I still don’t quite like the interface as much.

Wifi is also unreliable. Especially if you have several walls/floors between the client and router. Even if you stay connected at 54mb/s, interference and lost packets can cause extrem instability in streaming media. I have my xbox360 connected to a media machine via wifi and even lower rez videos get very choppy and sometimes just drop alltogether even when the signal is strong. But I also blame that one the 360’s lousy media support.

I’m planning on picking up the A-100 in a couple weeks. I have a long history of using PCs running mythfrontend, and I will continute to do so, but the advent of HD content and the absolute lack of HW accel under linux for it makes the system requirements a bit much. For less than the price of just the CPU/MB I’d need to playback 1080p smoothly (if the forums, et al are to be believed), I can pick up the popcorn hour, which will play anything I can throw at it. Plus it’s small, portable, and with no moving parts (minus a HD, which I don’t plan on installing), ostensibly quiet. I can leave all my loud file servers in their own room where they belong, and have this nice quiet little box by the TV that does only what it needs to do, and does it well.

If HD’s not a big deal, the softmod xbox is of course an attractive option.

I use an old P4 PC and a piece of software called media portal (www.team-mediaportal.com), it does everything that MythTV does (and then some) and all for free.

Regards,

Paul

You need:
- xbox ($40)
- dvd remote ($10-20)
- memory card with exploit saves on it
- splinter cell ($1), used to run the save exploit, there are a couple other games that work too but you need specific versions

If you don’t know someone with a modded xbox that can copy the saves to a memory card for you, you can build a cable that connects a usb flash drive to the xbox with a $2 xbox breakaway cable and the female end of a usb extension cable (just match up the wires, yellow doesn’t connect to anything).

The difference is that just because you’ve got a 6mbps downstream on your internet connection doesn’t mean you’re going to be streaming on that connection. What about videos/music/what-have-you that are already saved on another computer?

Not to mention there is also gigibit ethernet in people’s homes as well.