Thursday, November 11, 2004
SnapStream's Beyond Media 1.0 Official Feature List
Posted by Jason Dunn in "SOFTWARE" @ 08:00 AM
The Beyond Media 1.0 feature list has been posted to the SnapStream forum, and it's looking good (check out some skins). Beyond Media is kind of like Windows Media Center Edition for the rest of the world who doesn't want to buy a whole new computer just for the media features. Some of the features of Beyond Media 1.0 will include a photo viewer (with panning/zooming during slideshows), a music player supporting MP3 and WMA (they should add OGG support but probably can't), a video player supporting MPEG, AVI, WMV and a few others, DVD playback with a built-in MPEG2 codec (something even MCE 2005 lacks!), a weather plugin, and a few other goodies.
If you take Beyond Media 1.0, a compatible TV tuner, and Beyond TV, you have a seriously killer media system on your hands that is on par with a Windows Media Center Edition system - and in some ways better because Beyond TV records straight MPEG files, not the ridiculously locked-down MS-DVR files. :evil:
If you take Beyond Media 1.0, a compatible TV tuner, and Beyond TV, you have a seriously killer media system on your hands that is on par with a Windows Media Center Edition system - and in some ways better because Beyond TV records straight MPEG files, not the ridiculously locked-down MS-DVR files. :evil:
