09-02-2012, 13:07
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Media Player?
Hi all im after some advice, i travel away with work alot to Saudi Arabia and before i go i usally download avi's etc before i go as the hotel Tv service is shocking,
Im after a small unit that i can transfer files on to play through tv HDMI port?
Will this work?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sumvision-...item3a6ebb8318
many thanks
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09-02-2012, 14:39
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Re: Media Player?
Do you not have a laptop?
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10-02-2012, 09:44
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Re: Media Player?
yeah but i like to use my laptop for work and games while films etc are playing
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10-02-2012, 13:14
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Re: Media Player?
Laptops can do more than one thing at a time these days...
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12-02-2012, 12:11
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Re: Media Player?
not while using an hdmi output genius
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12-02-2012, 12:25
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Re: Media Player?
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Laptops can do more than one thing at a time these days...
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Depends how much CPU power the applications need. It's not always practical.
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Originally Posted by nick_f
Hi all im after some advice, i travel away with work alot to Saudi Arabia and before i go i usally download avi's etc before i go as the hotel Tv service is shocking,
Im after a small unit that i can transfer files on to play through tv HDMI port?
Will this work?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sumvision-...item3a6ebb8318
many thanks
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Should do fine. You need to think about storage though.
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12-02-2012, 17:37
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Re: Media Player?
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not while using an hdmi output genius
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Yes while using HDMI output genius.
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Originally Posted by Stuart
Depends how much CPU power the applications need. It's not always practical.
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Admittedly true, but it's generally fine in the vast majority of cases since almost all laptops with HDMI outputs also have hardware acceleration for video decoding, putting CPU use for the video playback bit at 5% or less.
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12-02-2012, 18:33
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Re: Media Player?
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not while using an hdmi output genius
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if you're using the HDMI output for an external monitor/screen, why not just dual screen the laptop it have the video on one and your app on the other? what spec is the laptop? save yourself some cash.
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12-02-2012, 18:48
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Re: Media Player?
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if you're using the HDMI output for an external monitor/screen, why not just dual screen the laptop it have the video on one and your app on the other? what spec is the laptop? save yourself some cash.
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Is it worth it for £20 and the cost of a memory card? Especially when you bear in mind that some games don't run well with something else using the second monitor.
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12-02-2012, 19:07
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Re: Media Player?
I didn't "need" my media player, I could hook up the laptop to the tv each time I want to watch a media file my tv/blu ray player doesn't support, but it's so much easier to just copy the files to usb stick/memory card, put in media player.
Also, those media players do an excellent job of playing media files larger than 2gb with no problem.
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12-02-2012, 19:18
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Re: Media Player?
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I didn't "need" my media player, I could hook up the laptop to the tv each time I want to watch a media file my tv/blu ray player doesn't support, but it's so much easier to just copy the files to usb stick/memory card, put in media player.
Also, those media players do an excellent job of playing media files larger than 2gb with no problem.
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I'm was in almost the same position. I had a load of media files that I wanted to play on my TV. I have a Macbook that was (and is) perfectly capable of playing them through the DVI connector on the TV, but I still got an external media player because it frees up the laptop to do whatver I want while the movie is playing.
Not to mention the fact that if I just want to watch a quick video, I can do it in a few clicks on a remote control, where as with the Macbook (and any PC), I would have needed to start the computer up, start the program then go hunting through the media files.
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12-02-2012, 19:27
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Re: Media Player?
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Is it worth it for £20 and the cost of a memory card? Especially when you bear in mind that some games don't run well with something else using the second monitor.
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the thing is, for £20, i would personally be really dubious about the quality. might be worth putting a bit more money into it, perhaps? as for the games not liking a second monitor running, it's never been an issue I've come across in 10 years of running dual screens when gaming, so it's not an issue I'm aware of.
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12-02-2012, 19:43
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Re: Media Player?
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the thing is, for £20, i would personally be really dubious about the quality. might be worth putting a bit more money into it, perhaps? as for the games not liking a second monitor running, it's never been an issue I've come across in 10 years of running dual screens when gaming, so it's not an issue I'm aware of.
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Well, I do have this player's big brother, and while the video quality is never going to win any awards, and neither is the user interface, it's certainly watchable, as good as the video quality from any laptop I have seen, and a lot more convenient.
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12-02-2012, 19:43
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Re: Media Player?
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Not to mention the fact that if I just want to watch a quick video, I can do it in a few clicks on a remote control, where as with the Macbook (and any PC), I would have needed to start the computer up, start the program then go hunting through the media files.
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Yeah, but the OP is talking about travelling (with his laptop) to various places including hotels and hooking it up to their TVs. At which point connecting a laptop is no harder than connecting a laptop and a media player (easier some might argue) and he won't have to copy stuff off the laptop to the media player as well. I see no point in carrying around two devices when one does the job, especially if one has to travel light.
In your own living room where the weight doesn't matter and it's plugged in once and left indefinitely, it's a different matter.
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