http://geekfun.com/2004/12/09/hauppage-mediamvp/ You can do anything, but you can't do everything. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:00:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://geekfun.com/2004/12/09/hauppage-mediamvp/#comment-108 GeekFun » Blog Archive » Network Media Players: DLink DSM-320 Wed, 21 Dec 2005 06:37:09 +0000 http://www.geekfun.com/wordpress/?p=436#comment-108 [...] I’ve been looking around and it seems like things have improved a bit since I looked a year ago. DLink has an interesting product called the DSM-320 that seems to be going for ~$130, after rebate that does native decoding of various MPEG4 formats like Xvid. The native MPEG4 support is cool because it means that existing content doesn’t have to be transcoded on a PC and transported over the network. As a result, I should be able to stream video off my fileserver which uses a low power ~800MHz CPU. I’m also hoping that avoiding MPEG2 will mean that I can get smooth playback over my wireless network. [...] [...] I’ve been looking around and it seems like things have improved a bit since I looked a year ago. DLink has an interesting product called the DSM-320 that seems to be going for ~$130, after rebate that does native decoding of various MPEG4 formats like Xvid. The native MPEG4 support is cool because it means that existing content doesn’t have to be transcoded on a PC and transported over the network. As a result, I should be able to stream video off my fileserver which uses a low power ~800MHz CPU. I’m also hoping that avoiding MPEG2 will mean that I can get smooth playback over my wireless network. [...]

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