[10 December 2011] C-300 Announcement, Specifications, UI Presentation, TFT Demo

[buzzbuzz]

(01-23-2012 03:40 AM)joeycrackau Wrote:  Hi All,

I'm looking into getting a new media center and the C300 looks to be the one I'm after, but I have a few questions (don't we all!).

1) I have all my videos stored on a NAS, how long would it take to generate the cover art for say 1000 movie files?

2) I'll constantly be adding 1-2 movie files per week, does the cover art etc. re-scan your entire library or just the new files it currently doesn't have cover art for?

3) does the cover art require a computer to scrape/generate the information, or does the C300 do it on its own?

Massive thanks in advance to anybody who takes the time to answer my questions

1) For a 1000 movies I'd count on a couple of hours.
2) It will only handle the new entries. If you want it to rescan the entire library, that's an option. It's also possible to rescan a single movie.
3) The C300 does it all by itself. No computer needed. There are some tools though to do manual maintenance on the database, should you want to. This sometimes proves to be handy in case of errors by the C300 (or at least the C200 I own).

[Mauz]

Hello, I'm thinking of buying the C-300 and I only have one question left: is it possible to view pc-based popcasts on my tv screen using the C-300? Or stream the pc alltogether on my tv screen using the C-300?

Thanks in advance,
Mauz

[chris57]

(02-21-2012 06:44 PM)Mauz Wrote:  Hello, I'm thinking of buying the C-300 and I only have one question left: is it possible to view pc-based popcasts on my tv screen using the C-300? Or stream the pc alltogether on my tv screen using the C-300?

Thanks in advance,
Mauz

The 300 has what are known as Apps Market Apps. These are very small apps that you download and install into the players firmware/nand.

These are podcast services such as Revision3, Youtube, BBC iplayer (UK only), RSS Feeds, etc.

There is also a developers api available for you to create your own Apps Market Apps with your own links.

You could also stream from your PC using the likes of VLC.

Perhaps if you stated which podcasts you want others may know of them?