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Comment on Uninspiring by Phil Long

Phil Long — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:09:47 +0000

Hmmm, perhaps not. Or, you know, sell your soul and all your worldly possessions for the 5D II.

Comment on Uninspiring by Dave

Dave — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:25:06 +0000

I was thinking of the upgrade too, considering the extreme depreciation on the digital bodies it’s best not holding on too long.

The pro-sumer models have a roughly 18 month upgrade cycle though so I might hang on for the 60D at the end 2009/beginning 2010 as right now there’s not a lot to upgrade for.

Comment on Media solutions for the AppleTV by Phil Long

Phil Long — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:49:10 +0000

Aid,

I’m not aware of any means by which that’d work. Basically I guess you’d need to be looking at probably needing a full install of OS X - rather than the cut-down version (I think Tiger-based) running on AppleTV, and then you’re basically really needing a Mac Mini.

ta,
P.

Comment on Media solutions for the AppleTV by Phil Long

Phil Long — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:47:23 +0000

Hi Dave,

Thanks for replying great to know you’re keeping an eye out for what people are saying on the plugin (oh, and great work on creating it btw). Interesting news on the higher quality version - I’ll look forward to seeing more on that.

I believe the window issue was a consequence of an issue I had with XBMC originally where it put options off-screen when I tested screen resolutions - and I figure I must have confirmed a wrong option. I SSH’d in and manually forced the resolution. Anyhow, when I updated Boxee recently it upset the remote for XBMC so I re-installed that - and needed to change the video settings again, and this time it worked. iPlayer now works fullscreen.

Comment on Media solutions for the AppleTV by Adrian Bool

Adrian Bool — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:11:44 +0000

Phil,

Have you tried getting EyeTV and a USB TV receiver running on your Apple TV?

aid

Comment on Media solutions for the AppleTV by Dave Johnston

Dave Johnston — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:10:39 +0000

Phil,

I’m the author of the iPlayer XBMC plugin.

The plugin doesn’t use the iPhone streams at all, rather the higher-res streams used on the iPlayer website (Flash VP6) and the Wii site (Flash Wii). The difference between Flash VP6 and Flash Wii is negligible, but provided for completeness.

At the moment, the high-res, ‘high-quality’ H264 640×360 streams on the iPlayer website are not used as XBMC has problems accessing them, but hopefully this shall be resolved soon and there’ll be a significant jump in quality. (Issue 26: http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-iplayer/issues/detail?id=26 )

I’m also intrigued as to why the iPlayer streams are playing in a window, this isn’t something the plugin does, rather an oddity of XBMC itself, but I’ve never heard of it before.

Comment on Media solutions for the AppleTV by Phil Long

Phil Long — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:53:01 +0000

Symbolic link, for the win. I created a symbolic link in my ‘Movies’ folder to my external drive and it worked. Nice and simple.
Basically, I opened terminal and opened the ‘Movies’ folder for my, as a user. Then did
ln -s [Drive Name] [Chosen Name]

e.g.

ln -s /Volumes/Media Video

Note to self, when Aaron says “just create a symbolic link”, just create a symbolic link. It works.

Comment on Googlefight predicts Martian downfall by Paul Simpson

Paul Simpson — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:19:49 +0000

Nah; IME it’s always productive. Unless I’m constipated, of course.

Comment on Googlefight predicts Martian downfall by Phil Long

Phil Long — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:42:38 +0000

What can I say - it’s a good place to think; it’s dead time otherwise, right?

Comment on Googlefight predicts Martian downfall by Paul Simpson

Paul Simpson — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:03:26 +0000

Preoccupied with The Force whilst on the toilet… ouch.

Could I recommend more (or, more likely, *some*) fibre in your diet? Alternatively, should you require the ability to destroy a planet (arbitrarily equating ‘a planet’ with ‘porcelin bathroom arse-furniture’ for a moment): http://www.senokot.com/

mass x acceleration > Death Star, oh yes.