2011-12-03, 05:56
I want to set up a home media network but I'm not sure which way to go with it. Here's my situation:
At the moment I've got XBMC running on my laptop as I'm out of town a lot. I really enjoy it, it's a great program. It's an older unit running winXP 1.8Ghz/2GB ram, seems to keep up alright but requires XBMC to be shut down and restarted after either numerous videos or a few minimizes.
At home I've got 3 tvs, all 720p and an iMac.
I had been hooking up the laptop to the living room tv via the VGA cord and watching XBXC content on there. I recently added a new tv that doesn't have a VGA input and my laptop doesn't have HDMI out so it's spurring me to create a dedicated home XBMC system.
I've got an xbox360 for gaming so I basically just want XBMC on the tvs with network access to video, music and pictures. Can ATV2, winXP and OSX all talk to an unRAID? I know right now I have to use a thumb drive to transfer files from mac to pc because the mac will read only NTFS and the pc won't even recognize my mac formatted external HDD.
I'm envisioning having all my media stored and 'backed up' on an unRAID server hidden away in the storage room & connected to my airport extreme. ATV2s giving XBMC access to all the TVs in the house and then the imac being able to upload dvdrips and pics and stuff to the unRAID and then the laptop being able to pull off some new unwatched content before I leave town.
A couple other things are does mySQL work on the ATV2s? How about a universal (harmony) remote? If I plug the unRAID into a router (airport extreme) can I access it wirelessly too? Sorry for the novel and thanks in advance for any guidance.
At the moment I've got XBMC running on my laptop as I'm out of town a lot. I really enjoy it, it's a great program. It's an older unit running winXP 1.8Ghz/2GB ram, seems to keep up alright but requires XBMC to be shut down and restarted after either numerous videos or a few minimizes.
At home I've got 3 tvs, all 720p and an iMac.
I had been hooking up the laptop to the living room tv via the VGA cord and watching XBXC content on there. I recently added a new tv that doesn't have a VGA input and my laptop doesn't have HDMI out so it's spurring me to create a dedicated home XBMC system.
I've got an xbox360 for gaming so I basically just want XBMC on the tvs with network access to video, music and pictures. Can ATV2, winXP and OSX all talk to an unRAID? I know right now I have to use a thumb drive to transfer files from mac to pc because the mac will read only NTFS and the pc won't even recognize my mac formatted external HDD.
I'm envisioning having all my media stored and 'backed up' on an unRAID server hidden away in the storage room & connected to my airport extreme. ATV2s giving XBMC access to all the TVs in the house and then the imac being able to upload dvdrips and pics and stuff to the unRAID and then the laptop being able to pull off some new unwatched content before I leave town.
A couple other things are does mySQL work on the ATV2s? How about a universal (harmony) remote? If I plug the unRAID into a router (airport extreme) can I access it wirelessly too? Sorry for the novel and thanks in advance for any guidance.
