Re: [slim] Question on system setups (vs. Popcorn Hour)

2008-12-30 Thread funkstar
korinengell;377092 Wrote: > Haha yeah I'm busy going through the 25 pages in that thread! It starts > getting pretty technical pretty quickly. Maybe I'll learn something :) > > Cheers for the help funkstar, not to mention selling me on the > Squeezebox Duet! It might be worth looking about for s

Re: [slim] Question on system setups (vs. Popcorn Hour)

2008-12-29 Thread Peter
korinengell wrote: > Ok so I recently discovered the Squeebox (and I especially like the cool > duet), but I've also been looking at the Popcorn Hour... However I'm not > sure either of them will do exactly what I want. > If you're like me they won't. I have a HDX-1000 (runs the same software a

Re: [slim] Question on system setups (vs. Popcorn Hour)

2008-12-29 Thread korinengell
Haha yeah I'm busy going through the 25 pages in that thread! It starts getting pretty technical pretty quickly. Maybe I'll learn something :) Cheers for the help funkstar, not to mention selling me on the Squeezebox Duet! -- korinengell

Re: [slim] Question on system setups (vs. Popcorn Hour)

2008-12-29 Thread funkstar
korinengell;377080 Wrote: > Why do you think it would be hard to keep the audio in synch? Because of > problems like separate buffering/decoding for the audio and video > streams? But that's not really a new problem is it? (I'm trying to > imagine possible combinations of real HiFi setups where a

Re: [slim] Question on system setups (vs. Popcorn Hour)

2008-12-29 Thread korinengell
Oh cool thanks for the link! Sounds like the kinda thing I was thinking of! Why do you think it would be hard to keep the audio in synch? Because of problems like separate buffering/decoding for the audio and video streams? But that's not really a new problem is it? (I'm trying to imagine possibl

Re: [slim] Question on system setups (vs. Popcorn Hour)

2008-12-29 Thread funkstar
You are right about the Popcorn Hour, it's all about showing video on a TV, not video on a PC/Laptop and audio through a stereo. It is possible to get any of the Squeeze products to paly your computer audio, including sound from videos being played, but it is a bit hackish and would be difficult

[slim] Question on system setups (vs. Popcorn Hour)

2008-12-29 Thread korinengell
Ok so I recently discovered the Squeebox (and I especially like the cool duet), but I've also been looking at the Popcorn Hour... However I'm not sure either of them will do exactly what I want. I started looking at the squeezbox to run music wirelessly from my laptop (since I just purchased a Gi