Re: [Dorset] Media Center/server.

2012-04-08 Thread Andrew Drapper 
Having done a little looking around LinuxMCE, was a distro that I looked at
to store and feed me media. I liked it as it appeared to do a good job
of grabbing media off a DVD or other sauce and adding it to the archive,
but it looks like it is entended to act as a media center and that you need
to watch the media on the pc running it or on thin clients what ever they
are and I just want to be able to acces it from any of my families macs,
PCs iphone, ipod etc.

Just add the medes to a box, (an old PC or mine) and have it available to
all from there. some have said that I could just use samba or VLC or others
MediaTomb

Can anyone cut through the ?#@@* for me!!!

Andrew Drapper

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On 7 April 2012 22:02, Tim t...@xendistar.co.uk wrote:

 On 07/04/12 21:04, Andrew Drapper wrote:

 Thanks Ralph,

 I believe that this is the distro, (where did the 'w' come form), that I
 looked a some years ago when I had nothing to run it on.  In the reading
 that I have done so far I have not seen it used to streem to other
 devices,
 i.e. Macs and Other linux PCs.

 Dose it do this?

 Andrew Drapper




 On 7 April 2012 19:35, Ralph Corderoyra...@inputplus.co.uk**  wrote:

  Hi Andrew,

  I think there are Distrows just for this.

 http://xbmc.org/ is popular and they ship an Ubuntu-based distro,
 http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.**php?title=XBMCbuntuhttp://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMCbuntu
 .

 Cheers, Ralph.

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Re: [Dorset] Linux Distribution of choice?

2012-04-08 Thread Redhotwal 
I started with Ub'u 6.06 and kept with it out of choice.  I set up Mint when my 
wife had her own (recycled) computer.  I have 11.10 on my PC and Netbook and 
10,04 LTS on a laptop. I have no problem with Unity and can see where it is 
going.
 I have dual boot on my netbook with Jolicloud which I think is is good distro 
for non geeky operators.  I have rescued a friends laptop and installed 
Jolicloud for her grandchildren to use and they love it.  
For speed, problem solving and a bit of fun I have a USB  version of Puppy 
Linux with persistence.
I do try out any live distro that comes with the LXF DVD that's how I tried 
Jolicloud.
 
Regards,
Walter
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