November 25, 200916 yr First of all, this is going to be my situation: Asrock ION 330HT bedroom Asrock ION 330HT living room unRAID server somewhere in the house I want to use the server as a mediaserver, therefor i'm having some questions about how to set this all up: 1. I want to use usenet and a torrent client, i asume this isn't possible on the unRAID server, but is it possible to use the programs at the 330HT and store the files directly on the unRAID server? 2. I have 2 options with the os on the 330HT: windows 7 with xbmc or a linux version of xbmc live. I've read on this forum that most people prefer xbmc live but i also read that xbmc doens't have a browser, so how do you acces the server then? I also need to be able to use plugins such as missed shows & youtube, i don't know whether that's possible on the xbmc-live version. 3. Is it possible to use both ION 330HT to play a film from the unRAID server? (let's say someone want to watch Batman downstairs and someone else want to watch Superman in the living room) I've read many pages on the wiki etc. watched 2 movies but couldn't find an answer, if someone could help me out here i would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
November 25, 200916 yr First of all, this is going to be my situation: Asrock ION 330HT bedroom Asrock ION 330HT living room unRAID server somewhere in the house I want to use the server as a mediaserver, therefor i'm having some questions about how to set this all up: 1. I want to use usenet and a torrent client, i asume this isn't possible on the unRAID server, but is it possible to use the programs at the 330HT and store the files directly on the unRAID server? 2. I have 2 options with the os on the 330HT: windows 7 with xbmc or a linux version of xbmc live. I've read on this forum that most people prefer xbmc live but i also read that xbmc doens't have a browser, so how do you acces the server then? I also need to be able to use plugins such as missed shows & youtube, i don't know whether that's possible on the xbmc-live version. 3. Is it possible to use both ION 330HT to play a film from the unRAID server? (let's say someone want to watch Batman downstairs and someone else want to watch Superman in the living room) I've read many pages on the wiki etc. watched 2 movies but couldn't find an answer, if someone could help me out here i would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance. I have a Asrock ION 330 (the first one) setup with XBMC Live. 1: you can have SabNZBd on unRAID, but you'll have to use a cache disk to store the temporary files. Same goes for torrents (with RTorrent). Writing the temporary files over the network from the ION is something you probably don't want: unparring and unrarring will take forever! 2: you can use plug-ins for XBMC for any version, be it on Linux, Windows, OSX or the Live version. XBMC for Windows does NOT support VDPAU, so you won't be able to hardware decode the movies: anything above 720p will be unplayable (or with heavy stuttering). If you plan on using an Atom based mediacenter and want to play HD (1080p) content, you're stuck with either the Linux or Live version. 3: assuming you have gigabit ethernet, having the two Asrock's playing simultaneously is not a problem at all. If not, you're limited by the bandwidth of your network, not unRAID. Edit: considering (3): having two streams is likely not going to be a problem on 100 MBit, IF both bitrates do not surpass the network bandwidth. Even high quality blu ray rips usually don't go beyond 20 MBit/s, but it all depends on the quality of your NIC's and switches if this will work without hick-ups.
November 25, 200916 yr 3: assuming you have gigabit ethernet, having the two Asrock's playing simultaneously is not a problem at all. If not, you're limited by the bandwidth of your network, not unRAID. Assuming you are not watching two HD streams it is easily possible to watch more than two movies at once. I've often tried 3 or 4 media players just to see if the unRAID array could handle the load while it had a degraded array. (from a disk being simulated because it was being re-built) I don't have any HD content, but I do have all full bitrate DVD ISO images. The media players themselves are all 100Mb/s lan connections.
November 25, 200916 yr Author 3: assuming you have gigabit ethernet, having the two Asrock's playing simultaneously is not a problem at all. If not, you're limited by the bandwidth of your network, not unRAID. Assuming you are not watching two HD streams it is easily possible to watch more than two movies at once. I've often tried 3 or 4 media players just to see if the unRAID array could handle the load while it had a degraded array. (from a disk being simulated because it was being re-built) I don't have any HD content, but I do have all full bitrate DVD ISO images. The media players themselves are all 100Mb/s lan connections. Allmost all of my files are 1080P mkv's. It seems that the p5q has gigabit so does my router and the ION 330HT, so all i need is some good cables i guess to use gigabit just to be sure. dlmh, also thanks for your reply. Great to hear that it's possible to use sabnzb & RTorrent, though i'm wondering if there is any alternative for Rtorrent (something like Utorrent)because Rtorrent isn't allowed at the tracker i'm in. Also my last (but perhaps a stupid) question: if i decide to download straight to the cache disk, don't i need an AV?
November 25, 200916 yr Good article has me considering Asrock ION 330HT http://lifehacker.com/5406563/build-a-cheap-but-powerful-boxee-media-center I've played played a little with both of these applications. Both do basically the same thing and each have their pros and cons. Just wanted to share as long at we are talking about media serving http://www.orb.com/ http://tversity.com/
November 25, 200916 yr Author Good article has me considering Asrock ION 330HT http://lifehacker.com/5406563/build-a-cheap-but-powerful-boxee-media-center I've played played a little with both of these applications. Both do basically the same thing and each have their pros and cons. Just wanted to share as long at we are talking about media serving http://www.orb.com/ http://tversity.com/ Thanks for the links, i finally decided to use XBMC over Mediaportal but now i have to choose between XBMC, Boxee, Orb and TVersity. I haven't really look into them but i sure will once i got it all set up.
November 25, 200916 yr tversity has always been wildly unreliable when I've tried to use it. Good when it works tho
November 25, 200916 yr I was trying to stream to my Wii (don't laugh) in the Opera browser the other night (it worked but video sucked). I had both Tversity and Orb running. I was also testing streaming while at work. Both had issues, but Orb did work better in the end. Tversity... + It can be set to stay within the network or be exposed outside + Simple interface (good or bad) - Issues with divx, but would transcode mp4/aac Orb... + Displays thumbs of movies. + Lots of sharing options - Can't ensure its not going around the internet just to get go across the room. - Divx worked, but mp4/aac would hang The mp4/aac files were large 1-2gigs movies. I only played with them both for one day, further testing is needed.
November 25, 200916 yr I'm also considering the WD TV Live instead of building/buying a computer, booting the OS and all that headache that comes with that http://gizmodo.com/5397986/hd-media-player-battlemodo-apple-tv-killers
November 26, 200916 yr I have used tversity and mediaportal but not for a year or so, I went with tversity. NMT is way better though.
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