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| Thread ID: 95340 | 2008-12-02 22:23:00 | Which OS for a home media server | nofam (9009) | Press F1 |
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| 725276 | 2008-12-03 09:44:00 | Coolest thing is the AirMouse works brilliantly with XBMC as a remote from my iPhone! :D | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 725277 | 2008-12-04 00:44:00 | Here are the system requirements for the XBMC Live OS: # x86 (Intel/AMD-based) processor computer capable of booting to CD-ROM . * Intel Pentium 4, Intel Pentium M, AMD Athlon XP/64, AMD Opteron, or newer CPU (that support SSE) . * Very fast modern dual-core processor is required to decode H . 264 videos in FullHD (1080p) . * For clarification; XBMC Live does not work on the Xbox game-console . # ATI/AMD, Intel, or NVIDIA (recommended) graphic controller which supports OpenGL 1 . 4 or later (2 . 0 recommended) . Would my P4 3 . 0 CPU possibly handle decoding H . 264, or am I wasting my time even trying? What's a good graphics card for a home media box that meets the above specs? (I know SFA about graphics cards!!) :o |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 725278 | 2008-12-04 01:12:00 | Here are the system requirements for the XBMC Live OS: Would my P4 3 . 0 CPU possibly handle decoding H . 264, or am I wasting my time even trying? What's a good graphics card for a home media box that meets the above specs? (I know SFA about graphics cards!!) :o Well if the media box is just serving out files to your laptops then it doesn't matter what graphics card it has in it . You are not going to watch movies/videos on the media box itself are you? You would need to look at the specs of the laptop graphics cards . |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 725279 | 2008-12-04 01:21:00 | If its a P4 3GHz, even without acceleration you should be able to do at least 720, potentially even full HD @ 1080... But of course, as CYaBro said, if its just sharing across the network, then its your laptops that will need the grunty hardware. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 725280 | 2008-12-04 03:06:00 | If its a P4 3GHz, even without acceleration you should be able to do at least 720, potentially even full HD @ 1080... But of course, as CYaBro said, if its just sharing across the network, then its your laptops that will need the grunty hardware. Of course - sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself!! :o Long-term plan is build a proper media centre PC/PVR once I get my shiny new 46" Bravia V-series, and play via the graphics card over HDMI. Hopefully by then, XMBC will have PVR capability. My current PC would then be re-re-purposed as a NAS box with FreeNAS etc. |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 725281 | 2008-12-04 03:14:00 | You can always just keep the media in the same box as you run XBMC? I run things across the network personally, coz Ive slowly added more & more HDDs.. have several 120, 250 & 320GB drives in a separate box which I keep in the garage :) 750GB Drives these days are only around $120 though, so yeah :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 725282 | 2008-12-04 03:26:00 | You can always just keep the media in the same box as you run XBMC? I run things across the network personally, coz Ive slowly added more & more HDDs.. have several 120, 250 & 320GB drives in a separate box which I keep in the garage :) Yeah was thinking about that Chill, but the issue I can see is trying to squeeze all those drives into an aesthetically pleasing SFF case where there's already a Quad-Core cpu and graphics card. Too much heat, and not enough space. ;) And yeah, I'd be happier to have my NAS box hidden away from thieves etc. |
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| 725283 | 2008-12-04 03:49:00 | Fair enough ;) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 725284 | 2008-12-04 04:39:00 | Well the XBMC works well on Xp :thumbs: Just installed it on a workshop PC music streaming fine :banana ( not saying whats playing) :xmouth: I see from the Live CD you can do a complete install on the HDD - may be a weekend project - Couldn't get to load from the Live CD - kept asking for a login password ---EH! | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 725285 | 2008-12-04 05:08:00 | If its the same as it was back in the days of the old xbox version, then both the username and password are simply "xbox". If you have anything high-def (Movie Trailers?) then I'd be curious to know how they play on a variety of systems :) |
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