2011-12-05, 07:42
Hey there, I am looking to set up an XBMC hub at my house, and I'm looking for recommendations.
For a bit of background, my home theater system consists of a 60" hdtv, and I've got a fantastic sound system hooked up to it.
Currently, I'm handling most of my sourcing through a playstation 3, though I have an old home media system running SageTV.
For truly high-def movies, I will likely continue to feed blu-ray discs to my PS3.
What I'm looking to accomplish is to set up XBMC so that I can play movies from my DVD collection in reasonable fidelity, and access my music collection at the highest quality possible.
The unfortunate thing about using DLNA with a playstation 3 is that .MP3 is all it supports, and there's basically no way to deal with anything better.
I'm interested in FLAC or other lossless audio codecs, as well as DVD-A and SACD source material, which can come in 96/24 and multichannel variants.
I'm seriously looking at an apple TV 2 as a potential XBMC hub, with the media files stored across the network, but it's unclear to me whether running XBMC on the Apple TV2 will allow me to stream ripped versions of these to my home theater system, and I'm also fuzzy on what the best way to rip full quality versions of these would be.
I may also be interested in getting into some development, as I've already done some hacking on SageTV, but it appears to be a dead end now.
Can some folks with experience on this stuff help clue me in?
Cheers
Ikarius
For a bit of background, my home theater system consists of a 60" hdtv, and I've got a fantastic sound system hooked up to it.
Currently, I'm handling most of my sourcing through a playstation 3, though I have an old home media system running SageTV.
For truly high-def movies, I will likely continue to feed blu-ray discs to my PS3.
What I'm looking to accomplish is to set up XBMC so that I can play movies from my DVD collection in reasonable fidelity, and access my music collection at the highest quality possible.
The unfortunate thing about using DLNA with a playstation 3 is that .MP3 is all it supports, and there's basically no way to deal with anything better.
I'm interested in FLAC or other lossless audio codecs, as well as DVD-A and SACD source material, which can come in 96/24 and multichannel variants.
I'm seriously looking at an apple TV 2 as a potential XBMC hub, with the media files stored across the network, but it's unclear to me whether running XBMC on the Apple TV2 will allow me to stream ripped versions of these to my home theater system, and I'm also fuzzy on what the best way to rip full quality versions of these would be.
I may also be interested in getting into some development, as I've already done some hacking on SageTV, but it appears to be a dead end now.
Can some folks with experience on this stuff help clue me in?
Cheers
Ikarius