Comments | kingfuraday: PlayOn Media Server is Out of Beta

kingfuraday

PlayOn Media Server is Out of Beta

Feb 03, 2009 14:27

Hey there guys. If you're a local you're already tired of me mentioning that I don't have cable anymore - "Oh look, it's Brian and he's mentioning he doesn't have cable - what a surprise". Yes - it's sorta that smug factor that comes with buying a hybrid car or recycling your coffee grounds as mulch... But yeah - I got rid of cable to save some ( Read more... )

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peteli February 3 2009, 22:47:16 UTC

I went without cable for three years, 2003 - 2006. Then I decided to get it back. I saved myself about $1400.

kingfuraday February 3 2009, 23:24:46 UTC

yeah, it saves me about $100 a month.

paladincub21 February 3 2009, 23:46:34 UTC

I would be interested in this solution as TVersity and other media-sharing solutions have not worked for my PC/Xbox360/HDTV Holy Grail.

So, how stable is PlayOn MediaServer? Does it serve up any content readable by the WinAmp portal utility? Does WinAmp support mp4 streams now? I'm assuming it serves up HD content?

Thank you for possibly finding my very on Siege Perilous.

paladincub21 February 4 2009, 01:29:17 UTC

This answers one of my questions:

What does "realtime transcoding" mean?
Transcoding just means converting the format of some media to another format. PlayOn is a "transcoding media server". We take media from online websites, which is often in formats like Windows Media, Flash Video, or H.264, and convert it to a format that your networked device can understand, often MPEG, as this is a reliable standard. Some devices have more advanced "codecs" -- this just means that they can play the fancier Flash and H.264 videos. Our server will know in these cases if it can just pass the video along as is, without transcoding it to another format. When we say "realtime transcoding", we just mean that the PC is downloading the video from a site like Hulu, and converting it on-the-fly to another format, and then sending it to your device. It sounds simple, but it's really not.

cpratt February 4 2009, 00:05:46 UTC

Looks like the 2nd link in this post got munged; manually trying to fix it gives me a QuarkXPress site. Help!

furtummy February 4 2009, 01:44:41 UTC

I like cable because I can watch reruns of old games that I might have missed the first time. Other than that, it doesn't really do much for me anymore.

If your looking for a good place to catch TV shows and they're not already listed on Hulu or the show's official web-site, try this place. It's got a good catalog of shows, most of them going all the way back to the first episode.