Maybe starting to digress from the original topic but Plex media server is pretty much awesome wrapped in kick ass. With Android and ios client software as well as just working in Chrome (maybe other browsers too?) it's basically way super simple for LAN media sharing and with a free myplex account it's easy for online sharing with friends and family or yourself when out and about. It supports multiple media types (movies, TV shows, mp3, etc) and it does its best to sort/inventory your collections plus it can pull in TV channels from many stations via the Internet, it's pretty much awesome. It's in the apt repository so it's cake to install too. It supports DLNA and probably several other acronyms; it's what I like to call "buzzword compliant." Since my mobile devices are all running Android I just use Airdroid to move files to/from my mobile devices. Sorry for the thread hijacking, just had to spill forth some of my enthusiasm a little. -------- Original message -------- From: tclug at freakzilla.com Date:04/06/2014 9:00 PM (GMT-06:00) To: TCLUG <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] PVR suggestions? Hi there, On Sun, 6 Apr 2014, Brian Wall wrote: > From what I remember, the stock capture driver worked pretty well with > the card out of the box. That's why I shelled out for that specific > card, it had a "works everywhere" chipset. "Works out of the box" is one thing - I have a hauppauge tuner, too (though a USB one). It works but MythTV's setup was weirder than all hell. Again, it worked, but it's like Configure Capture Card, then Configure an Input Method, then Configure Channels, and I think a few more steps. Totally a Myth thing... they've been making it more and more complex for no apparently reason. Oh, and you need to run a dedicated backend for capture for some reason. Even though my capture card is on my media center PC, not my media server... > One of these years I'll pick myself up one of them new-fangled Blu-ray > players with a DLNA client. Hehe, I'm sure one of the Roku boxes or equivalent (which are like $50 I think?) can do DLNA. At least you'd think so! I have a PS3 which picks up my MythTV "shares" - but it refuses to play any of the media. No video, no audio, nothing. I have no idea what kind of weird formats it wants (it didn't even like my MP3 files). > I would like to be able to rip DVDs (that I own, yes) and CDs (yes) Do NOT apologise for that! I own hundreds of CDs (I may have passed 500, I stopped counting when I was at 300+ and that was several years ago). CDs are still the primary, almost exclusive way I get music. When you have that many CDs the only way to possibly navigate it is to rip them all to a server and play through there. Every CD I get is automatically ripped (in FLAC) to the media server, and then put in a box in the attic (: I've been going through my DVDs and Blu-Ray collection and doing the same, now that I have the disc space... honestly with a lot of the TV shows I have on discs it's easier to, uh, get the versions where someone else did the ripping. Saves times. But yeah, having all my media on a server is incredibly convenient... except that making backups of 10+ terabytes is kinda hard. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140406/b9337af7/attachment-0001.html>