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Media Player Box for my TV
SirPeale:
So I've been wanting a PC to keep hooked to my TV to watch media files - ie movie clips, music, etc. Would XP media center edition be good for this?
Also, the drive in the PC I have for this application isn't very large, so I'd like to be able to use my home PC as the server, and the TV machine as a client. Anyone know of a good how-to on this?
ChadTower:
That PC may not be fast enough to run XP reliably... and you're going to need a good amount of ram for a PIII. You're WAY better off with an XBMC Xbox. Sell the PC for a few bucks on Craigslist and snag a used Xbox to softmod.
NiN^_^NiN:
Hey Peale
I've recently just used my carpc for this function while my cars having work done on it.
I was using the carpc frontend software as the interface and using the wiimote to control the pc aswell as the wii and it works nicely
I am using a 600mhz mini ITX and it runs fine with XP and playing divx files altho some are choppy (they are fine on the 1.2ghz mini itx) and its been working great but i did try working with VLC (Video Lan) and using the PC to communicate with my main pc to stream the tv shows/movies over the wifi using VLC's streaming technology and it worked great (i am using a 802.11g wifi connection and it's fine but does drop off bits n pieces if the signal is around 60% or lower so if your got a A/B connected dont bother)
There are heap of ways to do it the system i have runs on a total of 30watts and is small (there are mini HTPC/Set top Cases for the mini itx range)
I would try streaming with VLC onto the PC first to see how it goes
My pc is a 600mhz with 256mb of ram and a d-link 802.11G adapter :)
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 13, 2007, 08:34:47 pm ---
That PC may not be fast enough to run XP reliably... and you're going to need a good amount of ram for a PIII. You're WAY better off with an XBMC Xbox. Sell the PC for a few bucks on Craigslist and snag a used Xbox to softmod.
--- End quote ---
It's currently running 98SE. I played several video files and they all run fine. I'll have to see how they look under XP on the same box. Need to find another hard drive to test this out with, though.
ChadTower:
98SE is about as good as you'll get a full Windows install in terms of resources... XP is the bus stop chick. You're looking at 512meg of RAM to get it running reasonably. If you're going to get this running as a media client then an linux app is probably best. Haven't tried it myself but take a look at VideoLAN.
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