Amiga/Ares/AROS/Any Media Center now in beta stage

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Is there a chance that it might support BD in the future?

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Well its to bad about BD, but HDVideos on-demand is a good idea.
Only problem with that is that, AFAIK, its 720 only.

Not that I want to hi-jack this thread, but why do M$ think BD is absolete?

Anyway its a matter of time, before DVDs will not be produced any more, and the way I see it, BD is the sucessor to DVD.

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Well here in DK alot of people have Hidef tvs. And BD are the only format that supports 3D, for the moment at least.

But no matter which format is the best, the licens problem is the major hurdle.

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But you can't support either DVD or Bluray in commercial software without paying a license fee.

Ahh, ofcourse.. But if mplayer somehow supports BD via a non-licensed hack, then its no problem anyway.

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Hi,
AMC and AROS can be put in 40MB... If you have a ROM large enough than it will work. I'm preparing a inofficial CDTV revival... as media center / gaming system... will cost less than an AresOne but will just boot into AMC.

One note: We use a mplayer (updated) and without libdvdcss. So most DVD's wan't play if they have copy-protection.  It is NO! problem for the user to use another mplayer with this library to play those DVD's in AMC.

A 68k Version is no problem because AMC is made with Hollywood... if someone brings mplayer 68k in a usable form.... It would only work in UAE or maybe on a NATAMI (more or less)

It would be great with an 68k version, if nothing else, then for natami and winuae..