Peter wrote:

since I cannot do fast scrolling on the Beo 4

I find that I get fast Beo4 scrolling from PLEX on the MacMini ... don't ask me why ! but I am sure Philippe (PhilLondon) will know :)

Laursen wrote:

Hi Peter,

Just curious - have you tried streaming movies from your local net e.g. TimeCapsule or other NAS device - what's the user experience? - are you using the BeO remote?

/Niels

Guess that question has been covered 🙂

I found some interesting news:  ATV2 can handle 1080p ....not flawlessly, but our little black box can go quite far:

Yaeger wrote:

Anyone already gave it a try ?

I saw the MacRumors thread on this yesterday and read it.

Requires one to jailbreak the ATV2G.

I had previously experimented with XBMC on my Macbook, and even tried different skins.

But I preferred the look and feel of Plex.

And since then Plex has moved to a client/server architecture which I suspect will scale better as we all add more and more terabytes of movies in our homes

I am using XBMC on my Mac Mini. Tried PLEX, but did not get proper playback of BluRay rips which XBMC is doing fine as well. The Mac Mini is controlled either via the Beo5 or via the iPhone. It all works reasonable well, although sound quality can be better imho.

Out of other threads I understood I should buy an external DAC, however the other issue is I do not like to have the TV on all the time just to play music.  I have a BM5/BS5 as well, and I like the BS5, however having a dedicated Mac Mini for movies/music would be more environmental friendly instead of a BM5.

Unfortunately , the hardware of the BM5 is not fast enough to run a server and/or XBMC on top of it, which would have been a very nice alternative instead of the Mac Mini. But who knows, may be B&O will update it in some time to offer a real mediaserver solution 😁

I have jailbroken the ATV2 and installed XBMC. Now I have best of both worlds!

For the momemt it is a tethered jailbreak. So after a complete shutdown of the ATV2 you have to connect it to a Mac for a short moment