Incidentally, I like the Pi enough that I tinkered/modded it a bit. Everything is hardware decoded but if something had issues, you can turn off hardware decoding and let the CPU handle it. Everything is silky smooth and I don't regret the extra cash outlay at all. It's a dual-core Celeron based CPU (x86) so it has a ton more Horespower than any standard media player or Android box out there. Once I was satisfied that XBMC via OpenELEC was my answer I picked up an Asus Chromebox+FLIRC for my living room (about $170). Makes browsing an overall better experience. Plus, it supports much more metadata than the WDTV Live, like Duration and Plot so you're not stuck with all of the fields being 'N/A'. Once I overclocked the RaspPi to 800MHz, it was at least as fast as the WDTV Live when browsing the library. I installed OpenELEC ( to it and almost immediately knew XBMC was the route for me. XBMC looked interesting so I ended up picking up a $35 RaspPi, $22 FLIRC (remote control receiver) and paid for the VC-1 and MPEG-2 license for an add'l ~$4. Eventually it became annoying enough that I started looking for alternatives. My problem was the lack of support for any metadata outside of Cover Art and Title and as my library grew, the WDTV seemed to get slower and more sluggish.

Thanks in Advance.Those are good, especially for file support without transcoding. but I thought I would check to see if others on the forum like anything better than the WD TV I was using a WD TV LIve but that has gone to hell on me and I was going to buy another one cause I actually like it. I want a player that mezzmo doesnt have to transcode the stream all the time so the player must play all kinds of formats. I am wondering what is a good media player to use with mezzmo.

Flirc openelec