Re: playing multimedia over my local network - how?
H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for a setup to play movies and music and to browse photos
> over my local home network (mostly Debian, one Ubuntu machine, sometimes
> a Windows machine on the wireless network). How do I start doing that?
> My objective is to have all multimedia on one disk connected to a
> machine (USB, firewire or SATA, not fixed yet).
>
>>From a little search, I have seen somebody mention NFS for which I
> apparently need 2.6.27 kernel (not in Testing yet, so that option is
> out). The other option seems to be to stream video -- is this really
> necessary in this situation? And it won't help much with photo browsing
> anyway.
>
> Mostly I connect between different machine via SSH. So I can open an X
> display. That gives the video but no sound on my local machine.
>
> I have also samba setup on one machine which at present mounts a disk
> which has songs and photos on it. However, I haven't yet found a way to
> play the songs over samba. Also, by favorite photo browser is gqview but
> it also doesn't appear to understand samba.
>
> Thanks in advance for inputs on this.
> Regards.
>
take a look at xbmc or boxee. I network share with samba via a box
running freenas and 4 usb drives attached. samba makes life easier as
theres a mix of operating systems in my house.
--
Steve Reilly
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