Hi,
Up until about a year ago, I was using an Elgato EyeHome to play back media off my computers throguh my TV using my Airport Extreme network. Then, I moved house, and there is something in the walls that is very badly affecting wireless network strength, so I could no longer get the bandwidth to stream video.
Last week, I switched to using a Netgear powerline networking solution - works great. Easily enough bandwidth to stream video - great! I can use EyeHome and EyeTV again!
However, since the move, I have amassed a large collection of H.264 video - DVD-Rips of my collection mostly, but also a few TV recordings which i have re-encoded to save space. I was therefore quite surprised, and annoyed to find that EyeHome does not support H.264, or many other non-standard codecs for that matter.
I started browsing for a new media player, as Elgato no longer seem to be developing for or even selling EyeHome, and I found that the codec support from these devices is actually very limited. I could only find one that would support H.264 - AppleTV, which ONLY supports H.264 - and only iTunes-optimized H.264 at that, and all of the others seem to be Windows-based.
What I want to ask is this: Does anyone know of any devices with more wide-ranging codec suppport that are Mac-friendly, or even a way to modify the EyeHome to install additional codecs (I am not to scared of playing around with it if anyone has any suggestions)?
Thanks in advance!
Tom
Up until about a year ago, I was using an Elgato EyeHome to play back media off my computers throguh my TV using my Airport Extreme network. Then, I moved house, and there is something in the walls that is very badly affecting wireless network strength, so I could no longer get the bandwidth to stream video.
Last week, I switched to using a Netgear powerline networking solution - works great. Easily enough bandwidth to stream video - great! I can use EyeHome and EyeTV again!
However, since the move, I have amassed a large collection of H.264 video - DVD-Rips of my collection mostly, but also a few TV recordings which i have re-encoded to save space. I was therefore quite surprised, and annoyed to find that EyeHome does not support H.264, or many other non-standard codecs for that matter.
I started browsing for a new media player, as Elgato no longer seem to be developing for or even selling EyeHome, and I found that the codec support from these devices is actually very limited. I could only find one that would support H.264 - AppleTV, which ONLY supports H.264 - and only iTunes-optimized H.264 at that, and all of the others seem to be Windows-based.
What I want to ask is this: Does anyone know of any devices with more wide-ranging codec suppport that are Mac-friendly, or even a way to modify the EyeHome to install additional codecs (I am not to scared of playing around with it if anyone has any suggestions)?
Thanks in advance!
Tom