Re: Media server recommendation
From what you're describing, I'd look for products that can work with imdb to pull down the movie info and build a local db of your collection. XBMC does something like that with movie scraper add-ons. Given time and a better processor XBMC could have worked for me. I have the original Popcorn Hour, A-100. It's limited to IDE drives, so never got to put all my media on it. Instead, I share it from the mac using SMB. It is a very neat little box. One person has a video jukebox that works with it: http://www.treasure-cove.net/moviejukebox.htm -d At 12:21 AM 6/29/2013, you wrote: "External Video Players (mplayer, xine, VLC) will not work with videos hosted on an [MythTV Storage Groups.]" I'm looking for something that can simply host a video library with some cross-platform/cross-client metadata tags, so people could browse "samurai movies" or "black & white movies" or "music videos directed by Australians" without being tied to Myth or XBMC or iTunes clients. Is there anything that will provide this out of the box, or am I looking at customizing a generic CMS? ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Media server recommendation
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013, Craig Treleaven wrote: > At 5:23 PM -0400 6/28/13, Dan Aldrich wrote: > >Been trying to set up a uPnP/DLNA server on my old iMac-G5. Previously > >been sharing the media files with SMB. Ushare didn't work out, kept > >getting bus errors, so assumed that it was too big for the machine. > >Building MediatTomb right now and trying that. > > > >Any recommendations for something like this? miniupmp, mediatomb, > >something I haven't thought of yet? > > MythTV? Myth includes video library management* and a UPNP server although > I don't personally use these features. When you configure Myth you tell it > a list of directories that include videos and have it scan through them to > create/update the listing and retrieve metadata. More info on the Myth > wiki: > > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Video_Library > > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/UPnP > "External Video Players (mplayer, xine, VLC) will not work with videos hosted on an [MythTV Storage Groups.]" I'm looking for something that can simply host a video library with some cross-platform/cross-client metadata tags, so people could browse "samurai movies" or "black & white movies" or "music videos directed by Australians" without being tied to Myth or XBMC or iTunes clients. Is there anything that will provide this out of the box, or am I looking at customizing a generic CMS? ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Media server recommendation
Should have added that I tried XBMC a while back and found it a bit too much. Really didn't need the whole UI, just a basic server. That's why I was trying uShare, wanted a minimal system. MediaTomb is still building, will see how that works out. Given time, I'll build MythTV. Thanks, -d At 08:06 PM 6/28/2013, you wrote: MythTV? Myth includes video library management* and a UPNP server although I don't personally use these features. When you configure Myth you tell it a list of directories that include videos and have it scan through them to create/update the listing and retrieve metadata. More info on the Myth wiki: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Video_Library http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/UPnP ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Media server recommendation
At 5:23 PM -0400 6/28/13, Dan Aldrich wrote: Been trying to set up a uPnP/DLNA server on my old iMac-G5. Previously been sharing the media files with SMB. Ushare didn't work out, kept getting bus errors, so assumed that it was too big for the machine. Building MediatTomb right now and trying that. Any recommendations for something like this? miniupmp, mediatomb, something I haven't thought of yet? MythTV? Myth includes video library management* and a UPNP server although I don't personally use these features. When you configure Myth you tell it a list of directories that include videos and have it scan through them to create/update the listing and retrieve metadata. More info on the Myth wiki: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Video_Library http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/UPnP NOTE that building Myth (mythtv-core.25) on a G5 may take *many hours* and has not been extensively tested (I know of one user running it successfully). Also, I expect it will be confusing to work through the configuration since most people use Myth as a PVR and a lot of the steps relate to configuring the capture device and the source of program listings. Craig * Prior to Myth 0.25, the video functions resided in a plugin to MythTV. Some older bits of the wiki haven't caught up to that change. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Media server recommendation
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Dan Aldrich wrote: > Been trying to set up a uPnP/DLNA server on my old iMac-G5. Previously > been sharing the media files with SMB. Ushare didn't work out, kept getting > bus errors, so assumed that it was too big for the machine. Building > MediatTomb right now and trying that. > Bus error is more likely to be a data alignment issue, I think? -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonadhttp://sinenomine.net ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Media server recommendation
Been trying to set up a uPnP/DLNA server on my old iMac-G5. Previously been sharing the media files with SMB. Ushare didn't work out, kept getting bus errors, so assumed that it was too big for the machine. Building MediatTomb right now and trying that. Any recommendations for something like this? miniupmp, mediatomb, something I haven't thought of yet? Thanks, -d ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
