Kaiser Baas’s WiFi MediaPlayer has been designed to allow users to watch movies, music and photos in their own living room on a large screen television rather than on a computer screen.
There's no need to burn DVDs, music or photos onto a CD or DVD to play on a television anymore. It connects to the television and allows users to play media from a USB memory stick, USB Hard Drive, USB DVD-ROM or from a PC or storage device on a network.
The WiFi MediaPlayer is supplied with a USB WiFi dongle so there is no need to have a wired network port near the television. A feature of the WiFi MediaPlayer is its ability to playback a wide range of video, audio and image file formats Main features:
- Wired or WiFi network streaming - Stream media across your wired or wireless network from a PC or NAS (Network Attached Storage) to a TV
- Play media from USB storage devices - Play movies, music and photos from USB storage devices, including USB memory sticks and external hard drives
- Full HD video playback - Watch Full 1080P High Definition formats, including MKV, H.264, M2TS, BDMV, BDISO and listen to superior digital audio.
Other features:
- WiFi out of the box. Supplied with 11n USB dongle
- Copy files between USB devices, great for file sharing
- Supports all major video formats, DVD playback with menu navigation and Blu-ray playback
- Supports all major audio formats, Dolby Digital and DTS
- Play photos as a slideshow with panning and zooming and background music
- Network LAN connection, WiFi connection and able to stream from a PC or from a DLNA compatible media server
- Two USB ports available, supports connection of a USB DVD-Rom, able to access multiple Hard Drives simultaneously and supports connection of cameras and MP3 players
- HDMI, Component, Composite and Optical connections
- NAS & BitTorrent, able to access USB Hard Drive over the network, supports BitTorrent downloads, able to download BitTorrent files while playing a media file
- Volume control on the remote
Comments
Just bought one of these and I am delighted thus far. I have a lot of old movies, tv series on a 1TB drive in the study and wanted to be able to access them on the main LCD TV without having to unpack the drive and move it between rooms all the time.
First off the box is small but easy to get in place though a longer power cable would be ideal. On first start up the menu's were distorted though legible mainly because the resolution by default was set at 1080P at 60hz which my older Sharp Aquos doesnt support. Remedied this by changing it but not immediately apparent. The wifi dongle included worked on first plug in though I found the onscreen keyboard a bit laborious for entering alphanumeric WPA key and network passwords. Identified all machines on the network straight away BUT accessing was a different issue as of course more alphanumeric codes and passwords needed entering. But apart from that speed of wirless connection is around 5000+ which gives trouble free playback, search pause etc.
Menu selection are pretty average with autoscrolling file names required because of space limitations. Work on this feature Kaiser Baas - it's a must improve area.
Had problems connecting to a "shared external USB Expansion Drive" which was the whole reason for buying it though. Sent a message to Kaiser Baas - no reply yet but did manage to sort out the problem eventually. Turns out our old mate Microsoft has issues with quite a few Anti-Virus products and a regedit was required to increase the " IRP stack size" to enable larhge drive to be shared properly. Refer http://winhlp.com/node/40?page=3&cs=1397#comment-537
Anyway apart form that it has been pretty trouble free so far.
Good inexpensive out of the box solution !!!!
Thanks for the positive comments. I appreciate the feedback and will arrange for your solution to the expansion issue put on our support site. Keep an eye on our support site kaiserbaas.com/support for new firmware updates or register your product on our website (if you have not done so already) so we can email you when new firmware is released.
Regards,
Murray Roberts
Kaiser Baas
murray [at] kaiserbaas.com
@Anonymous (28 Nov 2010): the Media Player supports Wifi Protected Setup so you could have used PBC (Push Button Configuration) to connect to the wifi without having to key in the WPA key using the remote control :) This (very straight-forward) procedure isn't explained in the Media Player's manual though. Just select "WPS" in the media Player's wifi setup menu and then press the push button on your wifi router and wait for the media player to connect.
Purchased one of these on the weekend and simply cannot get it to connect to my Windows 7 x64 workstation. The networking is *very* dodgy on it. Sometimes the machines on my network will appear in the NET browser on the device but most often not. The player is hardwired as the wifi did not work properly as well.
I placed an online ticket on the KB website on Saturday (the same day I purchased) but, four days later, still not a peep out of them. Seems like their support is as good as this device...
I will be returning this to the shop today for a refund.
Got one yesterday. Was contemplating the well known WD Live or the Kaiser. I chose the Kaiser because it had Wifi incuded. Cost $40 more, but that was not an issue. I already had a WD Mini, which was good, but had the following flaws:
1. Stopped playing some movies when there was still 20 mins left. Read in the forums that it had something to do with the size of the file. Very frustrating.
2. Couldnt fast forward some movies to the point where it left off, which could have been 40 mins into the movie.
The Kaiser Baas was able to address the above two flaws. I am now able to fast forward to all points in the movie and it doesnt stop 80% into the movie.
The picture quality is good and played a lot of diffferent video formats.
Also bought this product because of the Wifi connectivity to the PC. Easy to setup on Windows 7 following instructions. Amazed at the flawless wireless speed for streaming videos. Couldnt tell the difference between streaming from my PC vs external hard drive.
Would definitely recommend.
Bought one of these today. I wish I hadn't. It can't see my portable 250Gb exFAT hard drive, or connect to my Windows 7-based network shares. It can see my TVersity media server, but refuses to play anything, giving an "Invalid file" message, despite all the files I attempted to play being fully supported based on the supported video type list on the box. I'll be taking it back to the store tomorrow and upgrading to a WD Live instead. The WD costs about $100 more, but I have friends who also have it and swear by it, so I suspect it actually works.
Best value for money HD media player on the market. Interface can be a little clunky but damn if it isn't feature packed. Works perfectly with every file I've thrown at it so far, and connected to my home network with ease. Couldn't quite figure out how to get file sharing working through network permissions, but got around it by using a UPnP media server (PS3 Media Server works a treat!).
Built in torrent functionality has turned out to be an unexpected treat. It's all run through a web-browser interface so I can sit on the couch with my laptop and download torrents straight to an external drive connected to the player, turn everything else off and just let it download silently through the night. No need to leave my PC burning through electricity just for a torrent.
I'll definitely be recommending this to anyone chasing a cheap but powerful HD media box.
Considering purchasing on of this but would like to know if it can connect to and stream TV with my EyeTV Netstream DTT
Bought one of these yesterday and it connected to the wifi at home but couldn't get it to read the shared drive. However, it finally worked when I installed TVersity, which in itself is a pretty neat piece of software as it hooks you up to several services like youtube, flickr etc.
I don't regret buying it but a couple of issues:
-soft whistling sound (possibly a fan?) from the unit while playing.
-it gets pretty damn hot if not on a suitable surface (carpets are bad).
-The resume feature didn't work, it just stalls and reverts back to the start of the file and asks if you want to resume again... a vicious cycle. Only tried with one file tho.
-first attempt at a mkv file didn't work but will try again with other files.
-TVersity had a random tendency to disconnect once in a while but it's been pretty stable today.
so far I still think this is a little gem and great value for money.
I was given one as a gift. Works OK, but has some issues.
1: Cannot get it to recognize files on the networked shares. It sees the share and directory OK, not the files(?).
2: When playing FLV's (especially) from a USB drive - either a stick or a laptop drive, the sound "hunts", ie some passages get loud very quickly then quiet again, like as if the FLV decoding has lost track of the volume level. This happens more on complex video (almost unnoticeable on B&W) and also happens on some MP4 files.
If I play the same files direct from my laptop, no such volume hunting. It is very distracting and makes using the device for serious music video playing useless.
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