XBMC Backend

Aptalca,

I would be very interested in something like this as seeing as how we've got like 5 windows machines, 2 mac laptops, a few ipod touches, an xbox and a ps3 and if something like this would be easy to tie it all to my media server would be fantastic and especially because the rest of the family don't need to be messing with any of the settings except play

What stage of development are you in?

(btw I saw your automation thread and was wondering if you've got video of said room?) I was going to private message you but apparently you can't do that as a noob.

(pm sent)

Just to clear up any confusion, I am not developing this. I started the thread to discuss different ways this could be implemented, to get other people's ideas on feasibility and additional features and hopefully arouse interest from other devs.

Seems like Boxee did something similar. . .

http://www.boxee.tv/ipad

On that page you'll see that Boxee released a "Boxee Media Manager" that handles transcoding and serving

Currently, their ipad app uses the media manager to stream feeds from the computer

I am also very interested in a media server solution well integrated with xbmc.
I successfully implemented the mysql solution at home *with symlink thumbnails*, but I realise it is not a user-friendly solution, not even admin-friendly i would say.

I don't know any programming languages but i'm fairly knowledgeable in Windows and Linux environments, so I will volunteer for testing to any devs who might be working on this.

Thanks!

Can I just throw in a vote for this too?

I have a Synology NAS holding ~500 films and a hodge podge of TV eps from different seasons across about 80+ series. I need to get some 3TB drives and get the rest of the TV back off the hundreds of DVDs :-)

This is now also holding a MySQL db for xbmc, which is being used by;

my Win7 PC
my Mac Mini w/ projector
my flat mates iMac
and hopefully a new box on the TV in the lounge

I'll be honest guys, it was a billion miles from easy to set up, and I run the Infrastructure team for a UK hosting company. I should know what I'm doing (I don't, a lot of the time ) but I had to read a ton of stuff. Took me a whole evening to work out which way I should do it (MySQL? symlinks?!) and implement it.

My Mini and proj were in a cupboard since early 2009. I decided they needed to come out and prayed the OS X HTPC situation was better! From my experiences with MP before, I knew it was Win only, which didn't suit. Finding xbmc ported was great, but Plex has a lot of the answers too...

Here's my thread on why I'm still an xbmc user, but if they fix some things one day, maybe I'd switch the DB at least:

http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topi...-reaction/

Oh, and because it sounded a bit ungrateful, awesome job, I do love what xbmc can do, I just want more!

Well, I'm willing to contribute code if anyone else is willing to help?

Kai.

This is exactly what I'm looking for! Right now I have an PCI Express video card in my Home Server (WHS 2011) so that I can run XBMC just to scrape information and keep my MySQL database up to date. I'd love to be able to install a simple server version of XBMC and be able to transcode movies and music to my iPhone over the net or even to a browser at work.

It would be awesome if the server version could update databases for multiple profiles (for sql and built in databases) aswell

I'm quite new to XBMC but already love it. What a great accomplishment. A great 'thank you' to the developers.
In my ignorance as a simple user I started looking for how to stream to the iPhones and iPad in my household. Reading these forums made me learn about 'transcoding' and the need for it.
So here is my vote

Keep up the good work.