bossanova808;486254 Wrote: > Ok the obvious solution to the is XBMC - excellent library system and > will do exactly what the OP asked. > > www.xbmc.org > > Run it on an ASRock ION330 using the XBMCLive linux install - it's > really easy to set up (guide here > http://a8t8.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2518DD508BB713E8!804.entry) and it > will auto-scrape all your movies and TV shows. Plays pretty much > everything, ISOs, avis, and mkvs all no problem. You can manage the > library in XBMC itself or use various tools (Media Companion, TVRename > etc) to manage the library on the server.
Thanks much for the link! It looks a bit like MediaPortal, which I guess came from it. The tough thing is, all of these products have these '10 foot views' which I hate. I just want it to keep a library and serve media, but in a computer-expertish way, not in a couch-lounging way. I mean, I use a keyboard, not a remote, so I would like finer granularity than it seems to provide. Perhaps there are other skins out there for it for that use. I tried it a bit, and it hung in the middle of scanning my music and video collections. It also seemed to have trouble guessing what my videos were, since I keep them all in DVD directory format (and not ISOs, since I'd originally wanted to play with with VLC, which seemed to be quite happy with the directory format). I'd use VLC for streaming, but it wants you to pick the thing to stream at the source, and doesn't seem to be much made for library management and remote control (I mean, from another computer, not a handheld remote control). So it *looks* like XBMC and MediaPortal would be my best bet, though for the videos I'll have to either convert everything into ISOs and put them in obviously named folders if I want automatic naming to work, or add things to the library one folder at a time... and XBMC, at least from what I saw, isn't very friendly to the guy who wants to edit his music collection like a spreadsheet. But maybe there are plugins for that? :-) - Tim -- tbessie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tbessie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8521 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71448 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
