New TV - how to play media files; Boxee Box?

**blaggard** · 22nd May 2011

Far better to be running lots of formats natively than transcoding or having to convert, just not worth the aggravation when a cheap Revo does all the formats I've tried with H264 at 1080p/24 running about 8-9% processor hit.

**ivrytwr3** · 22nd May 2011

I plugged in a USB with 1 x avi movie on it and it played fine. I plugged in a WD 500GB hdd and the TV couldn't find the drive

(loads of different file types on the drive).

My other concern with only using the USB port is sound. If the USB is in the TV, how would i get sound through my surround sound kit?

I think my best bet is the WDTV Live Hub 1TB set up. This way i can copy all my media to the drive, hook up the system to my TV whilst running the audio from the WD Live Hub direct to my surround sound set up.

Does that sound right?!

**blaggard** · 22nd May 2011

You should be good like that, my vote would be for a Popcorn Hour but lots of people seem to like the WD. My Revo runs the sound back to my AV amp either via the HDMI OR optically.

**lloydi** · 22nd May 2011

Yes thats spot on just transfer audio through optical or hdmi depending on your setup

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**koola2** · 22nd May 2011

Originally Posted by ivrytwr3

I plugged in a USB with 1 x avi movie on it and it played fine. I plugged in a WD 500GB hdd and the TV couldn't find the drive.

USB only read FAT32 drives.

**lloydi** · 22nd May 2011

Originally Posted by koola2

USB only read FAT32 drives.

I had MKV files playing on my mums Sharp LCDTV through the USB from a 1TB Buffalo drive that is NTFS, must be TV specific i reckon

**Brydo666** · 22nd May 2011

My Samsung LE40C530 plays off my NTFS WD Passport drive no problems. Does MKV too.

**koola2** · 22nd May 2011

Originally Posted by lloydi

I had MKV files playing on my mums Sharp LCDTV through the USB from a 1TB Buffalo drive that is NTFS, must be TV specific i reckon

I was talking about the Sony EX Range, as specified in the first post.

**ant3b** · 23rd May 2011

Originally Posted by ant3b

What scrapers do the boxee use. Im not happy with the xbmc user interface. I cant get it how i want

I decided to use boxee and well the other half can now work the tv the boxee iphone app.. thanks god..

only thing though it cant seem to resolve scrubs as a tv show lol