http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/ Engadget Comments for SlingCatcher box reveals codec support: why hello, XviD http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/
This is why both next-gen DVD formats use a derivation of the h.264 codec for their compression (yes, Blu-ray and HDDVD are both compressed).

My guess is that people voted this down because XviD is a widespread format & they had not heard of h.264. XviD's ubiquity in no way make it the "best" codec. ]]>Oct 23rd 2007 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/
Support for all is best. There are wingnuts out there encoding in all sorts of formats. I even saw a Real video file the other day. I almost did a spit take when I saw it.]]>Oct 23rd 2007 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 25th 2007 2:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/
WTF?! Slingsync? I guess I'm out of the loop, but that feature is fantastic!

Please release this thing before December!]]>Oct 23rd 2007 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/
I'm gonna kick Santa in the nuts if he doesn't deliver.]]>Oct 23rd 2007 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 24th 2007 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/
@everyone: there are several boxes with these capabilities (and more) on the market right now. dvico's tvix, tomacro's limHD, and most importantly syabas' brand new networked media tank, with sigma's latest SMP8635 chipset.

these boxes all support divx, xvid, h264, mpeg2, in avi, mp4, mkv and ogm. the high end boxes from the first two are capable of 1080p output via hdmi, but have a bit of trouble decoding some 1080p h264 content. the networked media tank will supposedly outdo them all when it becomes available on october 30th, by easily decoding 1080p h264 content, and supporting embedded text subtitle formats.

basically, the slingbox has some cool streaming features but if what you want is full support of any type of media, you should be looking at one of the boxes i mentioned.

the networked media tank will be available for purchase via www.popcornhour.com .]]>Oct 23rd 2007 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/
Now we have to see if this thing will pass-through surround sound/DTS...]]>Oct 23rd 2007 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVI]]>Oct 23rd 2007 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 24th 2007 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/
Any simple devices for doing this on the horizon? No, I don't want a media center PC.]]>Oct 23rd 2007 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 26th 2007 11:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 25th 2007 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 27th 2007 6:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/
Overall the box looks pretty sweet.]]>Oct 23rd 2007 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 23rd 2007 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/
the main point of this thing is to stream your slingbox in one room where your high def cable box is, to another room in your house, so that you don't have to pay the man another 10 bucks a month for a cable box or tivo. as someone very astutely pointed out, the codec support is just an added bonus. yes we all know your hacked up crapbox supports 80 zillion codecs...thats not the point of this device.]]>Oct 24th 2007 1:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 24th 2007 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/
you don't have to be so offensive about asserting your opinions. anyway, not everybody is looking for that functionality, and since engadget wrote about the codec support almost exclusively in the article, i felt like it would be relevant to let people know about alternatives for getting that functionality.

also, if you sling your cable signal to a slingcatcher in another room, aren't you limited to watching the same channel as the one on the main screen? please note this is just a question, i'm not assuming that that is the case at all.]]>Oct 24th 2007 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Oct 24th 2007 1:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/
How many people have 1080p sets, and of those that do, have one large enough they can actually see the difference between 1080i and 1080p?

That last time I checked, the bulk of HDTV sets sold were still 720p panels (i.e., 1366 x 768 LCDs).

By the time 1080p output becomes useful to a significant portion of the population, I expect Sling will have released a new version (if this first version is successful).]]>Oct 24th 2007 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/slingcatcher-box-reveals-codec-support-why-hello-xvid/Nov 24th 2007 10:07AM