pfarrell Wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 21:48 -0500, > > wrote: > > > network. Would this cause problems or be a bad idea > > > to have Slimserver on one PC and the audio files i want to stream > on a > > > seperate PC? > [color=blue] > > A more important question is why would you want to do this? > network file access is harder to set up and usually slower > (often by a lot) than local access. I would not recommend it > unless you have thought through the engineering concerns. > But it will work.
I can see perhaps a good reason. I don't think I would like Slim's rescan or occasional heavy load to compete with or disturb any scheduled video recordings. Network file transfers are relatively fast operations compared to, say, software MPEG2 encoding. They are also fairly predictable in terms of server performance hit. Might it not make sense under certain circumstances to store your music files on your HTPC and run the server on another PC? Rescans might take longer, but streaming music would not be terribly impactful. Perhaps some measurement of how the system behaves is in order. Another point probably already considered is not wanting to distrub a perfectly functional HTPC by adding additional software. -- MrC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17905 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
