[BillingsLUG] Seeking advice for a "media center" project

[Larry Dillon]

Roku -- Very good at Netflix, 3d party dlna client?

WDTV Live-Plus -- good at Netflix, dlna client, browses CIFS file
shares and plays back most (but not all) Internet video downloads
(works better with 3d party firmware http://b-rad.cc)

Various Blu-ray players -- so-so at Netflix, dlna client

Some newer TV's have dlna clients built in (no set top box).

(Dlna clients play back many audio and video formats but there are
many video files (Internet downloads) that they won't play back.
Transcoding is an option but a huge time sink if you have a large
collection of videos.)

XBMC is good, if your friend has a spare, quiet PC to put it on.

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:14 PM, dan <dandenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> add XBMC with MythTV backend.  XBMC can run on a jailbroken appletv, ipad,
> ipod, windows, linux, and is pretty solid.  It can connect to MythTV backend
> for live streams.
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I have a friend (that I go eat pizza for lunch with every Wednesday) who
>> is wanting to setup a media center at home.  He isn't yet a Linux user.  I'm
>> pretty low tech at home... have only standard def TV and have been using a
>> TiVo for about 10 years now... so I'm pretty ignorant on the subject.
>>
>> He (Pat) is going to only have broadcast TV for input and would like to
>> view his video collection and online video sources... but realizes that some
>> may require a video conversion step.
>>
>> There are just so many options out there.  Media appliances, Roku, MythTV,
>> etc. What are people using and what are they happy with?  What
>> recommendations do you have?
>>
>> TYL,
>> --
>> Scott Dowdle
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