Comments on: xbmc http://www.lawrence.org.uk/blog/2009/12/xbmc/ Whatever I feel like writing about Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:19:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jon http://www.lawrence.org.uk/blog/2009/12/xbmc/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Jon Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:35:06 +0000 http://www.lawrence.org.uk/blog/?p=38#comment-13 swmbo is impressed with HD played through the laptop - I expect we'll be getting sky HD in the new year. Now I'll have to sit down and work out exactly what I want my home entertainment setup to actually do. I know that I'll need to access my media store (posh name for a f'in big server) as I've well over 60GB of various woodworking vids (300 files in various formats) along with around 8GB's of music. One day I suppose I'll get around to working out what the other 300GB on the server actually is. Note to self - need to get around to ripping the rest of my CD's at some point. What I do know is this: 1) Need to access everything everywhere :) 2) Need to devise a way to archive stuff off the Sky box - this WILL fill up very quickly. 3) XBMC will be used as the front end to access stored media. With item 2 I don't really care about archiving the HD content - simply capturing it to SD and storing it would likely suffice. Well it'll have to suffice unless I can find a way of striping the HDCP from a HDMI connection thus allowing copying of HD content. If I'm going to rip all our DVD's (and future BluRay) disks then I suppose I'd better increase the 1TB of storage that is currently on the network. I'm sure I'll blog something in the near future about server/client upgrades :). I've just about decided on the ION based box for the lounge front end. Backend box will likely be some Quad processor thingy - gives me plenty of available power for transcoding. swmbo is impressed with HD played through the laptop – I expect we’ll be getting sky HD in the new year.
Now I’ll have to sit down and work out exactly what I want my home entertainment setup to actually do.
I know that I’ll need to access my media store (posh name for a f’in big server) as I’ve well over 60GB of various woodworking vids (300 files in various formats) along with around 8GB’s of music. One day I suppose I’ll get around to working out what the other 300GB on the server actually is.

Note to self – need to get around to ripping the rest of my CD’s at some point.

What I do know is this:
1) Need to access everything everywhere :)
2) Need to devise a way to archive stuff off the Sky box – this WILL fill up very quickly.
3) XBMC will be used as the front end to access stored media.

With item 2 I don’t really care about archiving the HD content – simply capturing it to SD and storing it would likely suffice. Well it’ll have to suffice unless I can find a way of striping the HDCP from a HDMI connection thus allowing copying of HD content.

If I’m going to rip all our DVD’s (and future BluRay) disks then I suppose I’d better increase the 1TB of storage that is currently on the network.
I’m sure I’ll blog something in the near future about server/client upgrades :) .
I’ve just about decided on the ION based box for the lounge front end. Backend box will likely be some Quad processor thingy – gives me plenty of available power for transcoding.

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