I don't like microsoft philosophy on drm thus I have not loaded any of their newer players and I always use a third party player like media player classic or VLC on my pc's. I follow the same philosophy about their marketing hyped crap DVR dvr system.
You do not need a console to use PMS, it's a dnla standard compliant server that was originally written to support PS3. TVERSITY is another. Both are freeware & opensource that run on PC. On Oct 22, 2011 12:48 PM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >>> >>>
