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avih · 2nd April 2004, 13:47

tried geexBox just yesterday actually. quite nice and basic. it can play from cd (the same drive u booted from!), local HD or lan. detects windows shares automatically. has a nice gui, although somewhat awkeward for the non-techie. it DOES play automatically when putting a cd at the drive.

u can't control the refresh-rate when on a monitor. on tv-out it's naturally a fixed refresh rate. u can't specify aspect ratio manuyally (there's an option, but it didn't perform to my liking).

but overall, quite nice as a basic divx/xvid living room machine.
and the iso image is less than 5M

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avih Capture, Deinterlace Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Right there Posts: 1,971	tried geexBox just yesterday actually. quite nice and basic. it can play from cd (the same drive u booted from!), local HD or lan. detects windows shares automatically. has a nice gui, although somewhat awkeward for the non-techie. it DOES play automatically when putting a cd at the drive. u can't control the refresh-rate when on a monitor. on tv-out it's naturally a fixed refresh rate. u can't specify aspect ratio manuyally (there's an option, but it didn't perform to my liking). but overall, quite nice as a basic divx/xvid living room machine. and the iso image is less than 5M Last edited by avih; 2nd April 2004 at 13:50.