March 26, 201115 yr XBMC on Apple TV (1st gen) XBMC on Apple TV (2nd gen) XBMC on Zotac Atom+ION based PC
May 17, 201115 yr Does XBMC do 1080P? Does it work with WMA pro audio and mkv? I stream alot of pRon and have yet to find a system that can handle it all short of a full fledged HTPC. Seagate, WDHDTV, WDHDTV Live are all bust.
May 17, 201115 yr Does XBMC do 1080P? Does it work with WMA pro audio and mkv? I stream alot of pRon and have yet to find a system that can handle it all short of a full fledged HTPC. Seagate, WDHDTV, WDHDTV Live are all bust. 1080p - yes WMA Pro - think so (see http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMC_Features_and_Supported_Formats/Codecs#Notes ) MKV - yes (but depends to an extent on the codec - don't forget that MKV is a container format) Since XBMC is free and multi-platform, why not give it a try?
May 17, 201115 yr On Windows or Linux based HTPC. Original XBOX does not have the processing power. 360 not supported. Try XBMCLive on a CD without needing a new install.
May 17, 201115 yr I run my XBMC on small form factor atom based PCs. 1 is a revo, 2 are asus home built, 2 are MSI micro PC's and 1 is a maci mini 2010. 4 are win, 1 is live and 1 is OSX. I have a several old xbox1's that are moded with xbmc but i retired those years ago.
May 17, 201115 yr IMHO, you just can't beat a Roku ($79) for TV hookup - this item has become a thousand times more useful in the last couple of weeks. It's full 1080i with both wireless and wired connections, with HDMI out. If you're prepared to accept 720i resolution (perfect for smaller TV sets/ if you don't have BluRay-quality media), you can get the HD version for just $59! First, a developer has released a Plex client for the Roku... which whilst being beta, a little buggy and not particularly pretty does a stunning job of getting media onto a TV. Then, this weekend, Elan released a version of the Plex Media Server for Linux (including Slackware 13.1). So now I've moved the media server onto my UnRaid box and have a PC-independent platform for media. Again... a little buggy. Really is just exceptional value for money - and I'm sure they will iron the kinks out with time.
May 18, 201115 yr I am using an AMD based HTPC with Media Portal on, because i dont only use the PC for watching media stored on my unRaid Server but also for watching live TV. Together with plugins that wake my Server only when it is needed (for watching a Movie or TV Series but not when i only want to watch live TV) it works really flawless.
July 11, 201114 yr SageTV currently but will most likely change now that Google purchased them. Won't do it soon however because I want to find something that will fulfill the PVR, scheduling, watched, dislike, etc capabilities that SageTV had. Or at least something I can live with. Hoping that an extender will be available as well but will experiment with a small ITX silent PC as well. Hoping I can find something that will work faster than my current extenders on a different platform. Currently SageTV would actually run slower than extenders on Atoms and the like so hoping a non-java PVR will get me a speed increase when/if I change.
July 12, 201114 yr 4x Win7 Prem HTPC's running Windows Media Centre and MyMovies. I also use a SFF WHS V1 to manage the database for MyMovies and the store music for Apple devices and Sonos multi-room music system. I use a combination of iPad (MyMovies ipad app is pretty good) and Harmony remote for control. The media is about 500 DVD's, 200 BD's and 800 episodes of TV shows. The DVD's are ripped to video_ts folders and BD's are ripped to .iso images. The clients are SFF pc's (Acer & ASRock Atom CPU with ION GPU) with Bluray drives and arcsoft TMT 3. I started out with WHS as the network storage device, but Disk Extender & Migrate (now dropped in the new WHS) made bluray streaming virtually unusable so I moved my media to unRaid.
October 3, 201114 yr Plex on a MacMini, plex on a Apple TV2, with the PMS on UnRaid with SickBeard - nothing better. The move from xbmc was the best thing I ever did.
December 1, 201213 yr Plex media center. Clients on a windows 7 pc, an iPad, and a macbook. Really nice to have cross platform, with all the metadata stored on the server. Makes it run a little slower, but Plex streams to an iPad for $5, you can't go wrong there.
February 1, 201313 yr Plex Media Server on the NAS. Clients: Samsung UN55ES6150 with native Plex client Vizio Smart TV via DLNA PS3 via DLNA Roku N1100 with Plex channel 3 iPhones with Plex app 2 iPads with Plex app Mac with PMC Win7 with PMC
February 20, 201313 yr I was using Popcorn Hour but it was always quirky and temperamental. Recently replaced with OpenELEC (XBMC) and so far I an very happy.
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