I am in the process of setting up my home to stream media to include music, movies, home moves and internet TV such as Hulu. I took a stab at this last year with windows home server and never finished the project. I Realized I need to research more before moving forward with this project this time around.
Components: xbox360, ps3, apple macbook, 2 vista lap tops, Desk Top computer windows 7 (2TB storage) , iphone, Airport extreme Router (all N) (1TB storage), comcast 20meg and an xmbc xbox. All of my computers are either N wireless or hardwired to the router and have plenty of performance.
I have dabbled in the past with orb, boxee and xmbc. I just started dabbling with Tversity. I can cut the xbox, xmbc and macbook out of the equation if needed. I can also have a spare desktop I can set up with windows home server again.
So what I am looking at is to set up a reliable media streaming system in my home and if I can access it outside of the house even better. I want to do this once and not beat my head against the wall with trial and error.
I am thinking of setting up my desktop Win 7 with Tversity and use that to stream via my other components. The only thing I dont like about Tversity is that when you browse for media on the xbox or ps3 it doesnt show any metadata. However, I do like that I dont have to mess around with converting media into different supported media for the different components.
So any input, recommended reading or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Doug
Components: xbox360, ps3, apple macbook, 2 vista lap tops, Desk Top computer windows 7 (2TB storage) , iphone, Airport extreme Router (all N) (1TB storage), comcast 20meg and an xmbc xbox. All of my computers are either N wireless or hardwired to the router and have plenty of performance.
I have dabbled in the past with orb, boxee and xmbc. I just started dabbling with Tversity. I can cut the xbox, xmbc and macbook out of the equation if needed. I can also have a spare desktop I can set up with windows home server again.
So what I am looking at is to set up a reliable media streaming system in my home and if I can access it outside of the house even better. I want to do this once and not beat my head against the wall with trial and error.
I am thinking of setting up my desktop Win 7 with Tversity and use that to stream via my other components. The only thing I dont like about Tversity is that when you browse for media on the xbox or ps3 it doesnt show any metadata. However, I do like that I dont have to mess around with converting media into different supported media for the different components.
So any input, recommended reading or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Doug