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jemeshsu on Dec 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Exynos based quad-core developer boards, starting ...

18pfsmt is talking about hacked AppleTV with XMBC installed, which will break the Apple wall garden and allows all the non-Apple media playing such as upnp, flac, mkv etc.

solnyshok on Dec 2, 2012 [–]

does it have enough oomph to play 10 GB mkv?

petemc_ on Dec 2, 2012 | [–]

Yes. I can stream large (up to 20gig) x264 mkv files from a machine running ubuntu/samba. It doesn't play HD xvid files though.

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