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Sield

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Hi everybody !

First I apologize for my poor english  :-\ I promise I'll do some efforts !

 

I've discovered recently unRAID, and I'd like to know if I can do that :

- NAS (I think yes of course  ;D )

- Time Machine compatibility (I think yes again)

- AirVideo (I've read something here feels it's ok, but maybe hardly)

- HTPC with nice GUI ?

- iTunes server (of course)

 

 

Does unRAID support hardware acceleration for full HD video ? From integreted chipset or some graphics cards ?

I was looking for 2 choices :

- Intel ATOM D525 motherboard, and a PCI graphic card with hardware acceleration for MKV 1080p

- AMD Athlon X2 250, Gigabyte GA-880GM-D2H (AMD 880G) - Micro ATX

 

Always 2 Gb of RAM, and 2 HDD of 1,5To, or 2To.

 

Thanks, and sorry again I you don't understand me  :'(

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Hi everybody !

First I apologize for my poor english  :-\ I promise I'll do some efforts !

 

I've discovered recently unRAID, and I'd like to know if I can do that :

- NAS (I think yes of course  ;D )

Yes

- Time Machine compatibility (I think yes again)

Partial

- AirVideo (I've read something here feels it's ok, but maybe hardly)

Yes

- HTPC with nice GUI ?

No.  Not unless you install it on a full slackware distribution and compile your own "md" driver.  It has NO Gui other than the web-interface.

- iTunes server (of course)

I think so...

 

Does unRAID support hardware acceleration for full HD video ? From integreted chipset or some graphics cards ?

I was looking for 2 choices :

- Intel ATOM D525 motherboard, and a PCI graphic card with hardware acceleration for MKV 1080p

- AMD Athlon X2 250, Gigabyte GA-880GM-D2H (AMD 880G) - Micro ATX

 

Always 2 Gb of RAM, and 2 HDD of 1,5To, or 2To.

 

Thanks, and sorry again I you don't understand me  :'(

unRAID has no video drivers other than the most basic of VGA drivers needed to get a command prompt.

 

It will never replace an HTPC.  It is a network storage appliance.

 

Joe L.

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And what about a DLNA server for the PS3 with MKV 1080p files ?

Will it support hardware acceleration ?

 

thank you !

 

...the board(s) and CPU(s) you are looking into will definitely stream fullHD fine, but will NOT transcode the video format on the

fly unless you go for a quad-core at least....this is not a matter of using unRAID or not...you should try that with your hardware

of choice beforehand.

 

Using ps3mediaserver will work, see here, for serving via DLNA to a PS3.

 

I received about 2x speed when converting a Bluray from m2ts to mkv with an ATOM-D510...but this is just the

container, no video format conversion

 

...you are looking for a non "of-the-shelf" setup of unRAID.

If you are not familiar with using & customizing a linux distribution it will take you same efforts, provided you

are willing to learn and are not a complete noop when it comes to using computer OS's.

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