Why? MC works well. I don't own a game console.
On 10/22/2011 3:40 PM, Joshua MacCraw wrote:
Uhg, I wouldn't touch MS' media related software with a ten foot pole!
All I use is PS3 media server to stream to my DLNA devices. Mostly MKV tv
shows& dvd/BR ISO.
On Oct 22, 2011 11:28 AM, "Anthony Q. Martin"<[email protected]> wrote:
I have gone nuts over this...it's like the most exciting PC type thing I've
come across in a long time.
I'm using MyMovies, Windows Media Center, PowerDVD11 Ultra and Windows 7
homegroup to make this work.
My old PC with the Q9550 Quad Core Processor is doing server duties.
Currently it has 17 TB of movie/TV series storage with another 3 TB to come
online this weekend and another 3 TB coming. At that point, the old box I
had will be filled to capacity. [I did notice that HD prices started
climbing the other day, so I bought that other 3TB as I found only one place
with a half-way decent price.] Not sure how to expand beyond there...not
even sure I want to. 23TB seems like a lot of storage to me, but I'm sure
some of you folks have way more than that.
Right now, I have some 356 titles loaded up. Most of them are blu-rays in
ISO format. Some are regular DVDs...I have a few MKVs but I prefer just to
rip straight BD to ISO as it is less effort overall. MyMovies is a very
slick and powerful backend for Windows Media Center. It doesn't "look" as
good as XMBC but I think it is easier to use and more powerful (or just as
powerful). Just about all of my Blu-ray collection resides online but most
of my DVD collection does not. I have a hard time watching DVDs anymore.
I need a means to catalog what is stored where. If a disc crashes, my play
is just to rebuild that disc from optical media.
It was totally worth the effect to run that Cat6 cable this summer. Trying
to stream blu-ray any way other than over gigabit is hopeless.
Funny thing is I don't watch movies has much as you'd think based on having
this setup. I just like having the option has having it dirt simple to get
to my stuff.