bog Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 So we know the containers and codecs supported by the media player.What maximum resolution AND bitrates are supported? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFUG Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 You can have any number of shares you want. That includes one.I'm still not understanding- If I'm to provide a pathway to just one location, namely the NAS (so sez my dealer), how does the player handle multiple shares? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 The player doesn't handle them. You can have as many shares as you want, and Composer scans them fir media and catalogs them in the GUI. Then you select a movie director tells the media player to play the file located here: \\192.168.1.210\movies\happy_Gilmore.ISO. The media player doesn't know or care what share it cones from, it just gets instructed to play a file located "here" Does that make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wappinghigh Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Dan. I thought it made sense.... But now I'm not so sure! How does what you are saying confirm you can just select one share?With my favourite music player, once the network has been scanned, all the available shares appear. The user then choses which share to use and thereby selects ONE pathway to the music file folder/s. Is this how you are saying the C4media player operates? The advantage of this is that if you elect NOT to use a NAS, and stream straight of a computer, any backdrives on your network that by necessity contain copies of these video files aren't duplicated in the players menu (Therby avoiding double ups on the GUI)I hope I am not confusing everyone further I must be as thick as two bricks on this one... But I don't get it I'm a sandwich short of a picnic on all this!!!With 2TB drives (and backup drives) available on computers these days, there is more than enough space for video files, and as I have said before NAS drives can be problematic when maintaining iTunes libraries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henniae Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Dan. I thought it made sense.... But now I'm not so sure! How does what you are saying confirm you can just select one share?With my favourite music player, once the network has been scanned, all the available shares appear. The user then choses which share to use and thereby selects ONE pathway to the music file folder/s. Is this how you are saying the C4media player operates? The advantage of this is that if you elect NOT to use a NAS, and stream straight of a computer, any backdrives on your network that by necessity contain copies of these video files aren't duplicated in the players menu (Therby avoiding double ups on the GUI)I hope I am not confusing everyone further I must be as thick as two bricks on this one... But I don't get it I'm a sandwich short of a picnic on all this!!!With 2TB drives (and backup drives) available on computers these days, there is more than enough space for video files, and as I have said before NAS drives can be problematic when maintaining iTunes libraries.As Dan said, the media player has no idea what shares exist. The C4 controller handles all the scanning of any file storage it has been programmed to access. When you select a movie to watch the C4 controller just tells the media player the location of the file and the media player access the file.If you have duplicate copies of a movie in different shares you will get duplicate copies of that movie in the GUI. I beta tested the media player and had the Matrix ripped in multiple different formats, each of the formats showed up in the GUI because I had 6 different copies of the movie ripped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wappinghigh Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Sorry, if this is correct, not being able to program an individual share seems just plain daft IMHO. As you have pointed out this will result in multiple duplicates for users who have backup video files on their network, or who have multiple iTunes libraries ( something very common in families with a couple of teenagers!)I hope someone addresses this in future software upgrades.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Sorry, if this is correct, not being able to select an individual file path seems just plain daft IMHO. As you have pointed out this will result in multiple duplicates for users who have backup video files on their network, or who have multiple iTunes libraries ( something very common in families with a couple of teenagers!)I hope someone addresses this in future software upgrades....So here's what you do.In one share on your NAS, have your movies that you want to be showing through the Control4 coverart interface. Scan it. Done. Only the ones you want show up. The others can be anywhere else, and C4 doesn't care because it's only looking at the share you tell it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wappinghigh Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Ok....thanks! I'll get Alan C to check it out when one arrives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Yeah, if you havce 45 copies of the movie you can elect certain ones to not show up by removing them from Composer.You are WAY over thinking this in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oconnellc Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 Would love to hear any feedback about supported codecs, file types, how it deals with meta-data, stuttering problems, blu-ray rips, dvd menus, etc.Thanks,Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wappinghigh Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 In my search for seamless playback of iTunes content, Ive come across elgato eyeconnect. This brilliant little program runs continuously in OSX's settings, and basically serves up iTunes music, iPhoto, and movies content as well as eye tv recorded shows, to any network attached DNLA certified media player/tv/receiver whatever. As long as it has upnp. I've tested this with my Integra receiver for music and it works real well. So the theory is.....why not serve up movies and recorded TV files to the Control4 media player in the same way. I've tried searching Control4.com specs etc. I've noticed reading the blurb on 2.0, C4 have added better DLNA media compatibilty. But can't find if the Control4 media player is specifically DLNA upnp certified.Does anybody know?Thx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 DLNA did not make it into 2.0 at this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wappinghigh Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 DLNA did not make it into 2.0 at this time.http://www.control4.com/news/86/44/Control4-Debuts-Control4-OS-2-0-at-CEDIA-EXPO-2009/Announcement under "improved media support". I don't get this Cody. Are you saying this hasn't happened (confused)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 DLNA did not make it into 2.0 at this time.http://www.control4.com/news/86/44/Control4-Debuts-Control4-OS-2-0-at-CEDIA-EXPO-2009/Announcement under "improved media support". I don't get this Cody. Are you saying this hasn't happened (confused)?DLNA was planned but did not make it into the initial release for 2.0. There's nothing about it in release notes, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgbrown Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 ^ Just to color this a little more - the word I got was not that "DLNA was planned but did not make it into the initial release for 2.0" BUT that the effort was actually abandoned some time ago.Perhaps I'm wrong but .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 I actually heard the same thing as dgbrown...don't count on it is my advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Maybe it went the way of the intercom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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