October 25, 201015 yr 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 ) - 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 :'(
October 25, 201015 yr 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 ) 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.
October 25, 201015 yr Author Thank you ! Why "partial" support for time machine, and full for airvideo ?!
October 25, 201015 yr Author And what about a DLNA server for the PS3 with MKV 1080p files ? Will it support hardware acceleration ? thank you !
November 7, 201015 yr 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.
November 7, 201015 yr Thx ! And is it hard to do ? I don't use to use Linux so... Its best to wait for version 5 which will include AFP. No Idea when V5 with AFP support will be out.
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