Applications:

MediaMVP 1.1.21262

Hardware:

IBM Digital Set-Box Integrated Controller PowerPC 405 STBx25xx
General purpose processing power > 350 DMIPS,
plus dedicated hardware decode support for
MPEG-2 Transport Stream, MPEG-2 MP@ML, and MP3 Audio.
Which run on a Custom ver of Linux
SMsC LAN91C113I-NC (RJ45 Ethernet 10/100Mbps)
A/V RCA Jacks: S-Video, Composite video, Left audio, Right audio
On units equipped with SCART connector: S-Video, Composite video,
Left audio, Right audio plus RGB and YprPb (SCART connector replaces
A/V RCA Jacks)
Screenshots:

 
Testing:

MPEG2 CVD (HalfD1), 352x480 1.1MB
SVCD Extra Long Play, (HalfD1) 480x480 1.6MB
SVCD Long Play, (HalfD1) 480x480 2.0MB
SVCD Standard Play, (HalfD1) 480x480 2.5MB
DVD Extra Long Play, FullD1 720x480 4.4MB
DVD Long Play, FullD1 720x480 6MB
Lot of MP3
Lot of Picture
All the above work well in playback or display.

Bugs:
So far I haven't had any major problem with the MP3, Picture or just
Playing MPEG video back but there are a few small hiccups like some
of the remote buttons not working like the skip button and some time
Fast Forward cause problem with the audio.
Wish List:
  • SageTV and or SnapStream Personal Video Station integration support.
  • Taskbar Icon (Start, Stop Server and Media Search).
  • Search for Media need Drag and Drop.
  • Automatically converts the files to a media type the box will recognize.
  • Application for build are own style skin.
  • TV ScreenSave mode.
  • MP3 Visualizations.
  • Multiple MediaMVP support

Conclusion:

Over all MediaMVP, it was a very good product and it is very solid
runing and the Qualiy Playback was very good to.
It was very eazy to hook up, it come with eveything but not a S/Video
cable so besure to get one if plan on using S/Video and a longer
network cable 7' dosem't go very far unless your house is all ready
wire for it.
I was very suprize with the power supply which I though for sure it
was going to be one of thoses big fat power supply that take up 1
exta plug scoket.
With little more work on the MediaMVP application this thing
will be outstanding device.
The Good new is it is base on HTML, XML, JavaScript, CSS and JPG,
GIF, BMP so if know that real well you can do some eazy mods to it.
What would really be cool is integration this with SageTV and or
SnapStream Personal Video Station which I under stand is being plan
on later on down the road now that be a really cool features for us
PVR user that don't want there big load PC in the living room.
I was able to do a Live Stream while SageTV was Recoding a show at the
sametime I was able to watch it which work very good.
Just think of what you can do with few MediaMVP all over the house as
a TV-based navigation and broad feature set it a steal at $99 vs the
other player which cost 1 1/2 to 4 time more like $249 Prismiq
MediaPlayer or $499 Roku HD1000.

My only disappointment is the application that need to be install which
act as a server which is using a lot of memory eat up 100+MB hopely
they can do something about this late on.
Menu looks ok but I like it to be a bit more flashy looking or give us
some kind application to allow us to build our own style skin now that
would be nice.

Notes:

You will be limited by you LAN bandwidth so plases keep that in mind
more so with wireless LAN when it come to playing MPEG video over a
LAN.
As for other video format forget it there be no QT, WMV, DivX decoding
most like the server PC will have to do all the work for other format
unless they fine good solid way for work in hardware so you never know
what can happing.

DVD playback will not be support even knowing the IBM chip support
DVD playback but this has to do with specific regulations that protect
against rebroadcasting of DVDs wonder why none of other device like this
one don't have DVD playback I just find out about this so there no way
on god green earth this will ever get support darn that MPAA.

Final Words:

Overall I'm very impressed with it right now and its overall
performance, so I giving it a 9.5/10.