[Techtalk] Linux media center?

Veronica K. Berglyd Olsen veronica at berglyd.net
Fri Dec 6 14:14:53 UTC 2013


I use XBMC running on Ubuntu 12.10 on an MSI Wind DC100 box with a wireless
keyboard. It's simply perfect. On the intel version of the box I am having
some issues with the analog sound output from the OS, but it works inside
XBMC, The TV only has one HDMI (used for cable), so sadly it's back to the
90s with VGA and old sound cables. It works flawlessly on HDMI though.

– Veronica K. Berglyd Olsen


On 4 December 2013 12:19, Finne Boonen <hennar at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a two RPi in the house and one Fritzbox ADSL modem/router/wifi/SMB
> server. One of the RPi is a dedicated media player (XBMC) where the files
> are on the Fritzbox, it'll also stream (uPnP) to mobile devices I have
> lying around the house (LAN only). The other does my webserver, irc, DNS
> and occasional thinkering.
>
> I want at least one more device but I need to find a stovetop that can be
> controlled from an external device to attache to it first :(
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Eeva Järvinen <eevaj at welho.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 10:00:11PM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > > Attention! I seek opinions! I have a slick little media box all ready
> > > to go to work as my media center. It will attach to my bigass TV and
> > > nice multi-channel receiver via HDMI. I don't need streaming to my
> > > million closest Internet friends or herd of smartphones and tablets.
> > > Just a nice static setup for storing movies and music on the media
> > > box, and playing them on the teevee and hifi.
> > >
> > > So what's good? XMBC, Boxee, Mythbuntu, Element...??? I'm old and tired
> > > and don't want to test all of them :)
> >
> > I'm interested in this, too.  I have to replace my aging home server
> > soon, and while my most pressing needs can be met with almost anything
> > from a RPi onwards (light web serving, ssh, irc), I'd like to tinker
> > with a media server.  I'd be running spotify on it, too, and some
> > flash(boo! hiss!)-based web streaming, but those shouldn't prove to be
> > a problem on any relatively modern distro.
> >
> >
> >
> > Eeva
> >
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