kiss dvd players

[gdf]

hi hi

has anyone got a kiss player and what model as i have been looking at them and really fancy the KiSS DP-1504 /40 gb hd or a 1500

if i get a hd for the pc i could stream them from the pc i am i correct

recommedations anyone

geoff

also anyone got any cheap links

[Jesterrace]

For the features and the price I would just get a modded XBOX. You can upgrade the HD to any size computer HD and XBMC will play far more than the Kiss DVD Player will. *EDIT* :eek: I just checked out amazon.com and they want $500+shipping for that thing. You could easily buy a pre-modded XBOX with a 120GB HD for $350-$400.

[celtic_druid]

Plus XBMC uses mplayer code legally.

Can an XBox output HD res stuff though? I mean can the CPU even handle decoding HD res MPEG4? Sigma's new chipset I believe can. I don't like Sigma either though.

[gdf]

ok can i transfer divx movies to the xbox's hd via ethernet from the pc or do i have to burn to disc and then install them on the hd(xbox) in order to watch them


ok guys been having a look at the xbox forum threads looks like i'm going to get one

[Jesterrace]

ok can i transfer divx movies to the xbox's hd via ethernet from the pc or do i have to burn to disc and then install them on the hd(xbox) in order to watch them


ok guys been having a look at the xbox forum threads looks like i'm going to get one
Nope, you can FTP the files straight to the HD. XBMC allows you to access the different partitions.

[xathras]

hiya i bought one from www.scan.co.uk (http://www.scan.co.uk), cant remember the model for my mum, had to promptly test it first ;)

The angles it provided where good, picture quality good, and scan even give me a leaflet for multi-region to ;)

I didnt pay more than a £100 I know that much ;)

I will try and dig out my scan invoice

[Jesterrace]

True but it was probably a very basic model and not the HD beast that gdf was considering. Also, XBMC will play all of the following extensions, I have yet to see a standalone kiss player be able to do all of this:

XboxMediaCenter 1.1.0 point release source code supports the following: Supported hardware platforms and Xbox options:
- Compatible with modded retail Xbox (http://www.xbox.com/), Debug/ (http://www.xbox.com/dev)Development-Xbox (http://www.xbox.com/dev) and DreamX (http://xbox.upgrade123.com/)
- Fully control XboxMediaCenter and its features via a Xbox™ IR DVD-Remote (http://www.xbox.com/system/DVD+Movie+Playback+Kit.htm)
- Fully control XboxMediaCenter and its features via Xbox™ game controller (http://www.xbox.com/system/xbox+game+controller.htm?cs_catalog=cat-us)

Supported output media formats and devices:
- TV-output: 50hz/60Hz NTSC-M/J (America/Asia) and PAL (Europe/Africa)
- RCA, SCART, RF Coaxial, S-video, Component/RGB adapters available (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/products/hardware.htm)
- Widescreen (16:9) and normal-TV (4:3) aspect ratio video output support
- NTSC playback on PAL Xbox/TV and PAL playback on NTSC Xbox/TV*
- HDTV support (multiple resolutions 480p/720p/1080i and progressive scan)*
- VGA-output is also possible via third-party adapters (http://www.x2vga.com/) or VGA-hacked BIOS (http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/docs/VGA-native.txt)
- LCD-display output (http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.pl?act=ST;f=10;t=6935) support to view status and control XBMC with TV OFF*
- Analog audio-out (stereo/mono) via phono (RCA) connection or scart-adapter
- Digital audio-out (mono/stereo/surround) S/PDIF optical (adapter required (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/products/hardware.htm))


Supported input media formats and devices:
- Read files directly from a CD, VCD or DVD media in the Xbox's DVD-ROM drive**
(Support CD/DVD formats: ISO 9660 - Mode1/2/XA, UDF 1.02 and XDVDFS/CDX)
(DVD-ROM playback is on-the-fly only** (no option yet to auto-cache to HDD first)
- Play files directly from Xbox built-in hard drive (copy first from DVD** or network)****
- Stream media files from a computer over a local network via XNS (http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/downloads/PROTOCOL-1.1.txt)*, XBMSP (http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xbplayer/ccxstream-1.0.12.tar.gz) or SMB (http://www.samba.org/),
(including all NAS, Network Attached Storage (http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.pl?act=ST;f=10;t=3508) devices that support SAMBA/SMB (http://www.samba.org/)).
- XBMC XBMSP (http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xbplayer/ccxstream-1.0.12.tar.gz)-client code updated to support "Auto-Discovery of XBMSP servers"
- Stream supported media files from the internet (if stream format is supported too)*
- iTunes Music Shares via DAAP (network stream from Apple iTunes on Mac or PC)*****
- Xbox Memory Cards (note that only FAT-X formated memory cards is supported)****
- USB Mass Storage Devices (http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.pl?act=ST;f=4;t=527;) (USB-HDD's/memory) with FAT-X file-system****

Supported file/container formats:
- Audio-CD (CDDA) playback for normal audio CD's
- VCD and SVCD (Video CD) (SVCD/VCD menu's are not supported yet)
- DVD-video directly from Xbox DVD-ROM (no DVD-menu's support yet)*
- MPEG, MPG, M2V formats (inc. VCD's .dat and .bin and DVD's .vob)
- MPEG-4, MP4 (MPEG-4 video) (including DivX video containers)
- RIFF AVI (AVI 1.0) container
- OpenDML AVI (AVI 2.0) container*
- BivX (http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/mmswitch/bivx.htm) (AVI with several audio streams) container
- Microsoft ASF/ASX/WMV/WMA containers *****
- QuickTime QT/MOV containers (inc. those with raw audio) *****
- Theora Video (VP3) format
- Nullsoft Steaming Video (NSV) (http://www.nullsoft.com/nsv/) containers*
- Nullsoft Steaming Audio (NSA) (http://www.nullsoft.com/nsv/) containers
- MPA, MP2, MP3 and WAV containers
- AAC, M4A, MP4 (MPEG-4 audio) unprotected containers *****
- Raw .AC3 and .DTS audio files, plus DTS with WAV-header*
- RealMedia (Real Video/Audio) RM/RAM/RA/RV/RMVB containers
- OGG (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/) and OGM containers
- Matroska (матрёшка) (http://www.matroska.org/) MKV containers
- VIVO (VIV) containers
- PVA containers
- NuppelVideo containers
- FLI and FLC containers
- Tracker Mods (18 formats supported (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=897927&group_id=87054&atid=581841)) audio
- M3U, PLS and STRM* audio/video playlists

Supported video/audio codecs and picture formats:
- MPEG-1 (VCD/MPG) and MPEG-2 (MPEG/SVCD/DVD/VOB/DV/TY) video
- MPEG-4 ASP: DivX;-) 3.11, OpenDivX (http://www.projectmayo.com/) 4.0, DivX (http://www.divx.com/) 5.x (Pro), and XviD (http://www.xvid.org/) 1.0.x video
- MPEG-4 AVC - Advanced Video Coding (H.264 (http://www.vcodex.fsnet.co.uk/h264.html)): Nero Digital AVC (http://www.nerodigital.com/) video codec
- Windows Media Video v7, v8 and v9 (MSMpeg4/WMV v1, v2 & v3) (WMV9 via DLL's (http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/))
- RealVideo: 1.0 (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=775066&group_id=64793&atid=508681), 2.0 (RealPlayer G2) (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=775067&group_id=64793&atid=508681), 3.0 (RealPlayer 8) (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=775068&group_id=64793&atid=508681) and 4.0 (RealPlayer 9) (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=631491&group_id=64793&atid=508681)
- RealAudio codecs: 1.0 (14.4) (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=759488&group_id=64793&atid=508681), 2.0 (28.8) (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=759490&group_id=64793&atid=508681), SIPRO (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=775070&group_id=64793&atid=508681), COOK (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=775069&group_id=64793&atid=508681), DNET (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=775072&group_id=64793&atid=508681) and ATRAC3 (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=775071&group_id=64793&atid=508681)
- QuickTime 5.0, 6.0, 6.3 video and audio codecs (QDMC / QDM2) (via QT DLL's (http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/))*
- 3ivx D4 (http://www.3ivx.com/) / 3vi1 MPEG-4 video (inc. MSZH/ZLIB Compressed-Header containers)*
- Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3) QuickTime video
- Theora Video (VP3) (http://www.theora.org/) video
- On2 Technologies (http://www.on2.com/) VP4 (VP4.0), VP5 (VP5.0), and VP6 (VP6.2) (all via On2 DLL's (http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/))*
- On2 Technologies VP3 (VP3.0 and VP3.2) video
- Intel Indeo (http://www.intel.com/labs/archive/indeo.htm) 3.1/3.2 (Indeo3 (http://www.intel.com/labs/archive/indeo.htm))
- NuppelVideo (http://frost.htu.tuwien.ac.at/%7Eroman/nuppelvideo/) (NUV)
- VIVO 1.0 and 2.0 (VIV)
- ITU H.261 video
- Creative Labs YUV (CYUV) video
- Supermac Cinepak (CVID) video
- Autodesk (http://www.autodesk.com/) FLI and FLC Animation
- WAV and PCM audio format
- MPEG-audio layer 1, 2, and 3 (MP1, MP2 and MP3)
- OGG (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/) (Ogg Vorbis audio codec)
- WMA - Windows Media Audio v1 and v2 (WMA1/2 / DivX Audio v1/v2)
- WMA - Windows Media Audio v9 (WMA9) (via WMA9 DLL's (http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/))
- AC3 (Dolby Digital (http://www.dolbydigital.com/)) 2.0, 5.1 and 7.1 audio in video AC3 pass-through (S/PDIF-out)
- AC3 (Dolby Digital (http://www.dolbydigital.com/)) 2.0 and 5.1 audio in video software decoded to stereo analog-out
- DTS (Digital Theater Sound) 48Khz audio in DVD-Video (DTS digital pass-through)
- DTS (DTS and DTS-WAV) 44.1Khz/48Khz audio in DVD-Video (software decoded)*

[Jesterrace]

There is even more but post size constraints don't permit me to. You can get all of the details at www.xboxmediacenter.com. That and with XBMC, you always have the option to update it. If a particular file or file extension isn't supported, there will almost always be an update with a fix for it within a month or two.

[ssmacc]

XBOX all the way - you can even stream the movie form yuor PC so you could save money and not get a larger HD.

[Jesterrace]

Yep, although the HD upgrade is really convenient. You don't need to get a 200GB+ HD or anything. I have an 80GB Seagate in my XBOX and it is more than enough for what I want (store my favorite games, emus, and a few video files). I run everything else from disc.