The Popcorn Hour

Thumpette

Hi All, Had ordered one of these through expansys with the hope that it would arrive this week for a pressie. They have now come back looking for all sorts like utility bills, passport copies etc, which i think is a bit crazy!

Was also looking at their reviews and they seem to be mixed to say the least.

Would anyone know of a Dublin based shop in the real world where you can buy these off the shelf or another quick delivery place?

Thanks muchly!

vectra

Thumpette wrote: »

Hi All, Had ordered one of these through expansys with the hope that it would arrive this week for a pressie. They have now come back looking for all sorts like utility bills, passport copies etc, which i think is a bit crazy!

Was also looking at their reviews and they seem to be mixed to say the least.

Would anyone know of a Dublin based shop in the real world where you can buy these off the shelf or another quick delivery place?

Thanks muchly!

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Keedowah

you can order it on komplett.ie and pick it up in Blanchardstown.

The PCH is the best thing I have brought in years!

K

Thumpette

Hiya, thanks for the suggestions. Ive just been looking at Komplett.ie and they dont seem to have it.

JohnDigital

I got mine from Ripcaster.co.uk I'm not aware of any Irish outlets where you can get it. They are very obliging and I'm sure they could arrange an express post or something to get it to you quicker if you give them a call.

Standard Toaster

JohnDigital wrote: »

I got mine from Ripcaster.co.uk I'm not aware of any Irish outlets where you can get it. They are very obliging and I'm sure they could arrange an express post or something to get it to you quicker if you give them a call.

Ordered mine last week. What kind of del times can I expect?

JohnDigital

The_Edge wrote: »

Ordered mine last week. What kind of del times can I expect?

Mine took about 5 days, but that was just regular parcel post.

Standard Toaster

Cheers

Kur4mA

I got my Popcorn Hour A110 from ripcaster also and have been setting it up today. I've installed a 1TB drive into it and just transferring a tons of vids over to it now. For anyone transferring large files via the wireless dongle I'd advise you to use FTP. For me at least, it's been the most stable and the fastest speed I've gotten.

Also, if you haven't installed the NMT Community Software installer yet, I'd advise you to do so asap as there's some brilliant additional custom software that you can get including a nice download manager for those pesky rapidshare links.

vectra

kyub wrote: »

For anyone transferring large files via the wireless dongle I'd advise you to use FTP. For me at least, it's been the most stable and the fastest speed I've gotten.

I slaved my 1tb drive off my PC and transferred my files that way.
Now it is FTP foir topups

fcukreg

All...Brand New A-110 & WN-100 WiFi dongle for sale here.

http://www.adverts.ie/showproduct.php?product=114135&cat=8

Impluse purchased from www.Ripcaster.co.uk but keeping my Archos 605wifi instead as its more portable...

Standard Toaster

Been playing with my A-110 the last week or so. One of my better purchases.
Plays everything I've thrown at it so far. Even respects the aspect ratio flag on encoded files. Great when you get home and it's automaticly downloaded your fav episodes via rss feeds and they're ready to watch in comfort.
Tried a fair few 1920 HD files and again no bother to it.

Has anyone play around with the audio side of things?
Is there a decent jukebox type addon for mp3s? (like iTunes...Album art etc)

MediaTank

The_Edge wrote: »

Has anyone play around with the audio side of things?
Is there a decent jukebox type addon for mp3s? (like iTunes...Album art etc)

I haven't, use my Sonos system for audio. But look at networkedmediatank.com for jukebox software.

MT

allybhoy

kyub wrote: »

I got my Popcorn Hour A110 from ripcaster also and have been setting it up today. I've installed a 1TB drive into it and just transferring a tons of vids over to it now. For anyone transferring large files via the wireless dongle I'd advise you to use FTP. For me at least, it's been the most stable and the fastest speed I've gotten.

Also, if you haven't installed the NMT Community Software installer yet, I'd advise you to do so asap as there's some brilliant additional custom software that you can get including a nice download manager for those pesky rapidshare links.

What additional software have you installed? Ive put the movie jukebox on it with Yamj skin but rarely use it, its just for show mostly.

Velcrow

allybhoy wrote: »

What additional software have you installed? Ive put the movie jukebox on it with Yamj skin but rarely use it, its just for show mostly.

Just the Yamj with the RobinsjExcal skin it makes this lovely-quite-small box wife-friendly

http://omertron.com/pch/RobinsjExcal

MediaTank

allybhoy wrote: »

What additional software have you installed? Ive put the movie jukebox on it with Yamj skin but rarely use it, its just for show mostly.

I've installed BusyBox, telnet etc. and a mod that mounts all network shares at startup - very useful when using YAMJ.

Barack Obama

Just stumbled across this thread...

I've got a PCH for well over a year now and it's the best piece of kit that I ever bought. It's hooked into my HD projector and home cinema amp and I use YAMJ.

I highly recommend this to anyone

vectra

MediaTank wrote: »

I've installed BusyBox, telnet etc. and a mod that mounts all network shares at startup - very useful when using YAMJ.

Can I install these in my Egreat ?
cheers

MediaTank

vectra wrote: »

Can I install these in my Egreat ?
cheers

In a word yes.

vectra

MediaTank wrote: »

In a word yes.

And I have one word for you
"Thanks" :cool:

m0nsterie

Hey,
quick question re YAMJ + Popcorn Hour A110: when I move all my media to the internal HDD, can YAMJ work on there disconnected from any PC? I have the wireless dongle so wikll be able to connect to the internet OK for getting IMDB synonses, images etc., but does YAMJ need to be hosted on a PC?

Not sure if I'm clear on how YAMJ works. I'd like for it to just connect to the internet on its own and grab cover art for DVDs, IMDB information etc. Any tips?

Thanks

JohnDigital

Every time you add new content to the box you need to re-run yamj on your PC. It checks for changes to existing content and updates if required, it automatically skips over anything that has not changed. It only takes a few seconds to update new content if that is the only changes that it needs to make.

MediaTank

m0nsterie wrote: »

Hey,
quick question re YAMJ + Popcorn Hour A110: when I move all my media to the internal HDD, can YAMJ work on there disconnected from any PC? I have the wireless dongle so wikll be able to connect to the internet OK for getting IMDB synonses, images etc., but does YAMJ need to be hosted on a PC?

Not sure if I'm clear on how YAMJ works. I'd like for it to just connect to the internet on its own and grab cover art for DVDs, IMDB information etc. Any tips?

Thanks

YAMJ works off static web pages. You run it once on your PC to generate the web pages and then copy the Jukebox folder to your internal HDD. If you put index.mtml in the root of the internal hard drive the YAMJ web pages will load automatically when you access the internal HDD.

As JohnDigital says, if you add new content then you need to rerun it and copy the folder over to the internal HDD again.

MT

JohnDigital

MediaTank wrote: »

As JohnDigital says, if you add new content then you need to rerun it and copy the folder over to the internal HDD again.
MT

Even easier is if you have the Jukebox folder on the hard drive of the PCH all the time, then you dont need to move it at all.

MediaTank

JohnDigital wrote: »

Even easier is if you have the Jukebox folder on the hard drive of the PCH all the time, then you dont need to move it at all.

Yup, it's easier, but I find it's a lot sloower at updating when you do it over the network. I do it on a PC and then jsut copy the changed files across.

m0nsterie

OK - so, copy all movies to PCH internal drive (already done)...then run YAMJ from PC. I'll do this leaving the USB slave connection in place so the PCH drive looks like an external to the PC.

The reason I ask is, I am loading movies onto the drive for someone else, who has internet access but no movies or know-how on how to get them or refresh YAMJ or anything like that.

If I say upload a film in future from a USB drive, then from what you've said I need to reconnect my YAMJ on my PC to the PCH to generate the IMDB pages etc. for the new item. Is there any way to do this without connecting to a PC, by letting the PCH connect to the internet? Or is there an alternative to YAMJ that can do this (but that also has nice features like YAMJ)?

Thanks again

MediaTank

m0nsterie wrote: »

If I say upload a film in future from a USB drive, then from what you've said I need to reconnect my YAMJ on my PC to the PCH to generate the IMDB pages etc. for the new item. Is there any way to do this without connecting to a PC, by letting the PCH connect to the internet? Or is there an alternative to YAMJ that can do this (but that also has nice features like YAMJ)?

There isn't AFAIK. There is a dynamic YAMJ that someone developed but it requires a PC to host the software.

m0nsterie

Hey, anyone know a source for old film trailers?

For any new films on my popcorn hour, I have enabled the 'download from apple' option in YAMJ, so the trailers show up with the film (really cool feature). But most of what I have is not new - so if I could download old trailers from somewhere that'd be great! Not sure about using youtube, might be a bit tedious if I have to convert to another format.

MediaTank

m0nsterie wrote: »

Hey, anyone know a source for old film trailers?

For any new films on my popcorn hour, I have enabled the 'download from apple' option in YAMJ, so the trailers show up with the film (really cool feature). But most of what I have is not new - so if I could download old trailers from somewhere that'd be great! Not sure about using youtube, might be a bit tedious if I have to convert to another format.

Any old film trailer sites I know of e.g. TCM are streaming only. Don't know if you can download it.

The_g-man

You could check movie-list.com, where retro and obscure trailers show up in the members section regularly.