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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> Do you have a special need to use Plex over XBMC for the back-end? |
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No. |
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> I would say XBMC does everything you need. It supports profiles, which |
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> give you the password protection you mentioned, and there are many |
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> awesome front-end/remotes for android and i* in the markets. Just don't |
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> use the so-called "official XBMC remotes", that one uses an obsolete |
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> http API to XBMC, the current code base (Eden and Frodo) uses something |
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> much better in json. The best remote/front-end currently for android is |
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> Yatse IMNSHO |
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All good to know. |
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> Ditch gentoo entirely for this and use OpenElec instead (openelec.tv). |
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> It's XBMC on an appliance, and all of the maintenance issue you will |
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> experience (like broken libav or ffmpeg....) just ImmediatelyGoAway(tm) |
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This looks promising. I need to drill deeper into the Arm chips (SOC) |
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that support OpenElec, Geexbox and such application. |
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What about geexbox? How does it stack up in a comparision to what |
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you have tried? I just stumbled across it. In fact, is there |
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a good review somewhere that talks about many of these sort of HTPC |
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systems in a feature comparison? |
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> minidlna (in the tree) is a nice minimal media server, you get none of |
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> the xbmc awesomeness (like fanart and libraries and posters), but it's |
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> quick and fast and delivers content nicely. There are many front ends |
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> out there all speaking DLNA, and they support pushing and pulling |
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> content to varying degrees. |
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Another interesting offering. |
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Do any (all?) of these video servers mearly work over wired ethernet |
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or the HDMI output port, or do some of them broadcast locally over wifi, |
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which can be picked up by apple and android phones? |
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My video camera can stream into a linux device via the the usb or the |
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mini HDMI port. I'm not sure how to set up a hdmi port on a linux host |
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to receive input from the hdmi output on the camera? What I want to do is |
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then rebroadcast over wifi so every phone in the local (wifi) area can |
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watch the video live on their phone as well as playback and other |
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intersperced content (player stats etc). |
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What would you recommend ? |
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Which apps would the iphone or the android phone run to receive the |
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wifi re-broadcasts? |
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