OK...here I am again....You guys on this board care about the things I do...sorry if this is somewhat off-topic post.
Shortly after my last post -- just my luck --- one of my PCH A110s started to die. It is locking up randomly now...and more frequently.....where only a power cycle can recover it. It is on it's last leg. But it has served me well for many years.
Question: The combination of MVPMCX2 and PCHA110 allows the NMT to handle .TS streams much better (more robustly) than native PCH playback. This is how I found this forum, with the help of Martin long ago on the SageTV forums. This is when I was having all kinds of trouble with .TS streams off my cable tuner.
Now I have to replace the A110 with something else. I know the new A400 and even earlier models don't support MVPMCX2. So my question to you all is ---- are the new PCH boxes like the A300/A400 better than native A110 at playing back .TS, and .M2TS streams? If they are improved playback of transport streams....then I won't need MVPMCX2 as much.....and can deal with NFS mounts off my NPVR directory to play everything instead. I will miss native NPVR on the MNT but can deal with that problem.
I really appreciate any advice......of what Media Streamer is the best these days at playing back .TS streams from video. The ability to playback .MKV and other common containers and formats is very important too. But I am zeroing in on the one weak point of the A110....its transport stream decoding performance/robustness.
If you would buy a media streamer today....which would it be?
Thanks everyone for your help and ideas...and happy holidays!
Warm Regards
Jim
Shortly after my last post -- just my luck --- one of my PCH A110s started to die. It is locking up randomly now...and more frequently.....where only a power cycle can recover it. It is on it's last leg. But it has served me well for many years.
Question: The combination of MVPMCX2 and PCHA110 allows the NMT to handle .TS streams much better (more robustly) than native PCH playback. This is how I found this forum, with the help of Martin long ago on the SageTV forums. This is when I was having all kinds of trouble with .TS streams off my cable tuner.
Now I have to replace the A110 with something else. I know the new A400 and even earlier models don't support MVPMCX2. So my question to you all is ---- are the new PCH boxes like the A300/A400 better than native A110 at playing back .TS, and .M2TS streams? If they are improved playback of transport streams....then I won't need MVPMCX2 as much.....and can deal with NFS mounts off my NPVR directory to play everything instead. I will miss native NPVR on the MNT but can deal with that problem.
I really appreciate any advice......of what Media Streamer is the best these days at playing back .TS streams from video. The ability to playback .MKV and other common containers and formats is very important too. But I am zeroing in on the one weak point of the A110....its transport stream decoding performance/robustness.
If you would buy a media streamer today....which would it be?
Thanks everyone for your help and ideas...and happy holidays!
Warm Regards
Jim