Linksys Extender Review Part 2: Extender Experience

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chrisl — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:43:28 GMT

Matthias2007: Microsoft is probably not doing the work themselves because they can't (or wont??) provide legal CSS-encrypted streaming. Third parties can add codecs on the Extenders now, so it would seem to me that they can add at least some part of it.

Galileo: I don't believe it does them, but once I get another unit I'll give it a test (I need to ship the review unit back).

mike: I didn't even bother trying to program the remote. After about five minutes of using it I just grabbed another Media Center remote from my pile and used it.

leftheaded: There is a post at The Green Button that says it can, I didn't test it though.

re: Linksys Extender Review Part 2: Extender Experience

Scott Kingery — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:59:44 GMT

I tried out the 2100 as I figured I already had a DVD player. The 2100 has no optical toslink. That could be a show stopper for some people.

Mine is now sitting back on the shelf at Circuit City because of xvid/ac3. Horrible stuttering and basically unusable. My DLink dsm-520 works perfectly on these types of files. I think I'll hold out and see what DLink's v2 (dsm-750) extender look like next month.

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leftheaded — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:49:44 GMT

any chance the extenders work with the AVCHD format?

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casey chesnut — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:52:14 GMT

on a wired connection, my delay for XviDs has been 5+ seconds ... just enough time to annoy me.

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mike — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:58:50 GMT

I liked the 2200 so much that I sent it back to Dell and bought another XBox instead. Truth be told, the new XBoxen aren't too loud (long as there is no disc in them!) and navigating the MC UI is much nicer on it.

And Chris, you called it right with the DMA2200's remote... junk. Did you try programming it to control your TV? I couldn't get it to fly at all.

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Surge — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:07:47 GMT

You can modify the registry to have Media Center see mp4 files so you can skip renaming them.

thegreenbutton.com/.../243369.aspx

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Galileo — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:24:06 GMT

Chris, would you be able to test external subtitle files (srt, sub) with an avi?

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Matthias2007 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:38:17 GMT

I think the key with these units is going to be whether Linksys are prepared to upgrade the firmware. There were always going to be a number of compatibility issues with such a range of video formats - I just hope that they are listening!

One query, I'm fairly sure there is no technical reason why VOB streaming (with chapter support etc.) couldn't be done. Is there a legal reason why this is being stopped?

Linksys Extender Review Part 2: Extender Experience

Ian Dixon's Blog — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:00:11 GMT

Chris has posted part 2 of his Extender review and he has a nice table of supported content which is

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Jordan Hardy — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:18:34 GMT

Nice article, I think i'll still wait for the Xbox 360 to have divx playback.

Also I use http://www.whatyah.com to catalog my movies gaves & tv shows.

re: Linksys Extender Review Part 2: Extender Experience

chrisl — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:44:19 GMT

The DMA2100 is said to have some issues, I don't know the full extent and as noted I didn't have a unit to test. You might find Barb Bowman in the Media Center Newsgroups if you want more information. As far as I can tell, the DMA2200 does fine.

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anon — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:33:10 GMT

>> One cavet, it appears that the DMA2100 doesn't have draft Wireless-N.

Huh? You sure about that?