A H.264 Player(1080p capable) from china - LimHD200i

[Jerry_Sm@rt]

I found this player when browsing a hdtv forum.
The price is about $450 (without HDD)
Official site :http://www.tomacro.com/english/ProductShow.htm
Technical Specification

1 Storage:

• Hard Disk Driver: IDE 3.5" HDD

2 File System:
NTFS
FAT32

3 I/O Interface:
USB 2.0 Host x 2 (Can be used for connecting external USB HDDs, thumbdisks, etc.)
USB 2.0 Device (Can be used for connecting PC)
10/100M LAN

4 A/V Ports:
HDMI(with embedded audio)
VGA(YPbPr/RGB)
S-video port
Composite Video
Stereo Output(Audio R/L)
Coaxial SPDIF
Optical SPDIF

5 Media Formats:

1) Video formats:

High-Definition formats
MPEG2-HD(High Definition): .mpg, .tp, .ts
WMV-HD/VC-1
H.264

Compressed formats
MPEG-1/2/4
WMV
Divx & XviD
DVD .ISO & .VOB

2) Music formats:
MP3
AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
WAV or WAVE
WMA
OGG

3) Photo formats:
BMP
JPG or JPEG

6 Display Device Types:

1) TV types:
NTSC (480i / 480p)
PAL (576i / 576p)
HDTV (720p /1080i/1080p)
Plasma resolutions (1366*768, 1280*768)

2) PC standards:

PC standards-VGA, SVGA, XGA, SXGA

Here are some photo shots.

[KafesneBikaina]

Containers?
MKV support would be nice.

[Jerry_Sm@rt]

ts tp mov mpg avi wmv vob as for now
It is said that mkv support is under developing.

[jshumate]

The following review should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in this player:
http://www.mpcclub.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=270
The reviewer states that because of this chip's small amount of memory and lack of horsepower that it will be almost impossible to support MKV containers and we'll need to see a device based on a different Sigma chip (listed in the review) to have a player that can handle MKV containers.

[Zero1]

I think you'll find the reason it's not supported in most players is because it's not an ISO standard, and companies seem reluctant to support stuff like that (that said, they do support vorbis).

I find it hard to believe a player capable of 1080p does not have enough memory to parse MKV; that sounds wrong to me, or does MKV demand a fair amount more memory than others such as TS, MP4 etc?

I will agree on one thing though; it's sort of a step between no H.264 support and HD H.264 support (as in the SMP8630 series is able to decode Bluray/HD-DVD spec streams). That is SD stuff is handled perfectly fine, a good amount of 720p stuff will run, but after that it's hit and miss depending on the complexity of the encode (and perhaps to some extent with 720p, but I haven't got any insane x264 encodes to test on my EM8622L).

[CruNcher]

For that price i can build a player wich can play everything and has much much more functions or just buy a PS3 (but wait till they cracked the hypervisor) :P