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Squeezebox MP3 Player Hacked to Play Video

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the stupid-mp3-player-tricks dept.

Xenna writes "The Squeezebox MP3 Player has found a new application: With the Videobox software and some cabling it becomes a networked Video Player. This is the latest development to come out of the active community Slim Devices have managed to attract around their very hackable MP3 players. Only last week the SoftSqueeze software player was announced on the Slim users mailing list. The Squeezebox was reviewed on Slashdot last December."

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  1. don't feed the troll by Neophytus · · Score: 5, Informative

    Audio formats:

    * PCM (AIFF, WAV)
    o Supports raw pass-through of uncompressed audio
    o Sample rates: 32, 44.1 (CD), and 48Khz (DAT)
    o Configurable sample rate, byte order, channels
    * MP3, MP2:
    o Built-in decoding for all MP3/MP2 formats
    o Supports all MP3 data rates, including VBR
    o Supports all MP3 sample rates
    * AAC, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis:
    o Supported through server-side decoding
    o May be streamed in PCM (raw) or MP3 (transcoded) format

  2. Story has got it all wrong by BKDotCom · · Score: 5, Informative

    Uh... I may be completely stupid but they are not playing video over the Squeeze. They're just using it as the IR receiver to control "Media Player" on a PC with "TV Out" Woo

  3. What Squeezebox is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    People are comparing it to an iPod, and asking how much storage it has.

    Basically it is:

    A networked MP3 player

    Uses your computer to store MP3s - should have enough space for movies

    $249

    Looks about the size of an access point

    Plays ogg and flac

  4. Missing the point by platypussrex · · Score: 4, Informative

    Seems like people don't get it. Squeezebox sits in the room with your stereo and lets you remote control a stream of music from your computer (possibly in another room) to your stereo. The idea is that your HD can hold a lot of stuff but you might not want to walk into the other room to change programs.

    This hack lets you do the same with video stored on your computer. You sit in your home theatre room (or whatever) Squeezebox is already installed to do remote control on streamed audio, now you can do remote control on streamed video too.

    Usefull? Beats me, but at least understand what the product does.

  5. I love my Squeezeboxen! by Brackney · · Score: 4, Informative

    I ordered a Squeezebox after reading the /. story posted back in December, and I'm glad I did. I've since added a second box in my house and my Dad bought one too. It's a terrific interface that makes my music collection available anywhere in the house. Slimdevices along with the development community has been great at fixing bugs and enhancing the functionality of the server software and unit firmware. Check 'em out!