All the Pogoplugs with the exception of the soon to be released Pogoplug Video uses the transposing option.
Only if you need it though. I watch my non transcoded videos using the Windows drive app and my media player. Streams great and I can still use it for backup and sharing.
What is the model number of the unit that has a built-in hardware video transcoder chipset? The use of software for video transcoding is really not acceptible, much too slow, and would not have the ability to adjust to network speed variations.
I see Pogoplug 2 mentioned, but going to resellers, they don't call it "2" and they don't publish model numbers.
Buy.com has "Pogoplug Multimedia Sharing Device POGOE02" but that too is NOT a streaming device. Is that a generation 2 device? Is that what "E02" means?
I like the units, having fund SHARING files, but streaming video -- forget it. I use a video streaming program server on my MacBook and PC, and stream -- on the fly encoding -- to my iphone. It's called Air Video, and it works great.
I'd like to do the same thing with a pogoplug device, but when shopping for a device with hardware encoding, at buy.com, or egghead, or whever, they don't seem to understand the product line, so make no mention of the streaming vs. sharing issue, or the harware chipset required for on-the-flly streaming.
Tell the channel members the story
Media sharing is NOT video streaming device, so users might want to wait until this issue is better explained, and vendors really need clarification so they don't create a bunch of annoyed customers, like me. My Seagate STAK-100 is good for sharing, it's awful for streaming video.
Put your marketing manager on this one, it needs attention..
Brandon C said: All the Pogoplugs with the exception of the soon to be released Pogoplug Video uses the transposing option. Only if you need it though. I watch my non transcoded videos using the Windows drive app and my media player. Streams great and I can still use it for backup and sharing.
Brandon,
Thanks for the info. The video hardware version mentioned in a February 8, 2011 video interview with Jeff Fochtman, VP of sales, sounded very nice, but I couldn't find a reference to it anywhere. The full interview is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBHHREgoOn8
So when will the "Pogoplug Video" product be available?
PS: When you say your pogoplug streams great, are you talking about inside your LAN, or across a 3G to, say, an iPhone or iPad (where it would require transcoding to fit the size of the data pipe and device screen size).
And on the transcoding, how long does it take to transcode a 10 minute video, or even a 30 minute video if you've ever done that? Or are you just talking about streaming files inside your LAN to a device on your lan, which wouldn't require transcoding.
Jeff

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