Category Archives: Popcorn

YAMJ and Eversion

Posted by on January 3, 2012 No comments

I have been running YAMJ on my Synology for years and have recently changed to Eversion as a replacement skin:

Eversion Movie Wall

Eversion runs as a Macromedia Flash plugin on my Popcorn C-200 and provides a true home-entertainment experience:

Eversion Movie Detail screen - Harry Potter

Installation is as simple as replacing the previous skin, deleting the jukebox meta-information (I opted to delete all images and movie meta-information to refresh all content). After re-indexing all my content (which took over 2 hours), Eversion comes automatically into action by displaying the latest movies and TV-series on the wall.



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Logitech Harmony One

Posted by on January 2, 2012 No comments

My Harmony 895 received many “beatings” over the last 2 years and finally it was time to “bin” it. Most of the buttons stopped working and that universal remote experience was no more.

The Harmony 895 served me well and it was an obvious choice to go with another Logitech product – this time the Logitech Harmony One Universal Remote with Color Touchscreen.

Logitech Harmony One Universal Remote

The Harmony One arrived via Amazon in a bland brown cardboard box – Logitech calls it a “green experience” (Apple is about the only company which provides one with a true unboxing experience) and while the unboxing was uneventful, the remote itself serves it’s purpose.

Using the Logitec Harmony software for OS X, it was easy to unpaid the old Harmony 895 and associate the new Harmone One with my existing profile. After a 5 minute firmware update, the remote was back in action.

The color touchscreen adds a nice feel to the remote and is very responsive. The transition from the Harmony 895 to the Harmony One was really transparent and the remote is as easy to use as it’s predecessor.

Note: The Harmony One does not support RF (something I did not need).

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The Ultimate TV renamer

Posted by on November 15, 2009 No comments

The Popcorn C-200 is probably the best gadget-purchase in a while and I have been able to organise my movie library quite well. Although the Popcorn currently lacks proper media indexing, Yet Another Movie Jukebox allows you to index your complete library and presents it as an HTML frontend with proper Popcorn integration:

A constant struggle with TV episodes is always the naming of files and the great Java application FileBot does an amazing job:

FileBot will recursively scan all your folders, match episode names from online providers (such as TVRage, AniDB, TV.com, IMDb or TheTVDB) and rename the files accordingly. With that in place, YAMJ (which also is pure Java) will then go off to the same providers and fetch detailed episode plot-descriptions, pictures etc and makes the movie experience truly awesome.


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Popcorn Hour C-200

Posted by on October 11, 2009 2 comments

The Popcorn Hour C-200 is the most powerful and versatile Networked Media Tank yet and has moved in with us to replace the PS3′s duty of streaming media.

The C-200 sports a 667MHz CPU, 512MB RAM (a further 256MB NAND flash), Blu-ray capability, Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI 1.3 connection (and several other outputs), 5x USB 2.0 ports (2 front, 2 back and 1 internal), 2x SATA (one occupied by HDD tray), 3.5″ HDD tray, Internal mounting for 2.5″ HDD, mini PCI connection for WLAN module.

It is called a “Networked Media Tank” for a reason, as it supports any media format and is the perfect movie library. The PS3 did a very good job with media, but only supports a select number of media formats.

Installation of the C-200 was simple. I only got a 250GB 2.5″ internal hard-drive, as my media library sits on 2TB NAS storage and I mount the libraries via SMB over Gigabit. The library management is so much better than on the PS3:

Various indexing mechanism exist and your library can be skinned to your liking and will display all your media (it will fetch movie information from IMDB) in a nice graphical fashion:

Be wary: The C-200 is one of those “bleeding edge” devices. The hardware is top-notch and probably can only compete with high-end media-servers, but the firmware is still in beta/experimental stage. I have experienced rare hang-situations and the UI is still sluggish, but with the upcoming production firmware, those issues will be resolved.

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