2011-09-24, 05:35
Hey all! It's my first day
I have a sumvision cyclone Micro 2 running media from a 2TB WD Elements hard disk. And it's cool but, you know, it's not quite there. The files are variously avis, mp4s, mkvs and even mpeg2.
I'm really looking for a complete media solution. I've seen people make moviesheets for the WDTV Live+, but it strikes me that, while it's a little (cough) more expensive, an ASRock Vision 3D seems to offer way more options. And it will look way cooler with my Black Wii.
Ideally I'd want to be able to go with the ASRock flash drive version and keep all the files themselves on the 2TB hard disk. It's important to me that I can browse or search through the films, music etc by genre without having to subcategorise (ie that I can give a film multiple genre handles). Is this possible? If so, I'm 50% sold.
Secondly, and the remaining 50%, I assume the ASRock operates as a standard computer. That should mean I can install/subscribe to stuff on it, such as bbc iplayer, 4od and lovefilm. Is this correct? (I'm a uk viewer; I guess there are US equivalents - hulu and netflix, perhaps?). Are there plugins to XBMC for this?
Less importantly, but I'm curious:
Sorry such a long post. REALLY grateful for any pointers
I have a sumvision cyclone Micro 2 running media from a 2TB WD Elements hard disk. And it's cool but, you know, it's not quite there. The files are variously avis, mp4s, mkvs and even mpeg2.
I'm really looking for a complete media solution. I've seen people make moviesheets for the WDTV Live+, but it strikes me that, while it's a little (cough) more expensive, an ASRock Vision 3D seems to offer way more options. And it will look way cooler with my Black Wii.
Ideally I'd want to be able to go with the ASRock flash drive version and keep all the files themselves on the 2TB hard disk. It's important to me that I can browse or search through the films, music etc by genre without having to subcategorise (ie that I can give a film multiple genre handles). Is this possible? If so, I'm 50% sold.
Secondly, and the remaining 50%, I assume the ASRock operates as a standard computer. That should mean I can install/subscribe to stuff on it, such as bbc iplayer, 4od and lovefilm. Is this correct? (I'm a uk viewer; I guess there are US equivalents - hulu and netflix, perhaps?). Are there plugins to XBMC for this?
Less importantly, but I'm curious:
- Can I use services such as unblockus to "fix" my ASRock DNS?
- What OS do I need to bed XBMC down with in order to make all of the above work?
- What OS delivers the fastest boot time for XBMC?
- Does XBMC auto populate info on your files, such as synopsis and IMDB rating, or is this a manual job? Where and how is the information stored?
- Does XBMC care what file structure your videos are kept in when pulling from an external drive?
- can anyone recommend a slot load cd player/hi fi system to set this setup off?
Sorry such a long post. REALLY grateful for any pointers