Re: playing multimedia over my local network - how?
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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.
Of course yo can find ways to mount your media-containing volume on any
of your home computers and then just use whatever players/viewers are
available on that particular OS/machine. NFS, SSHfs, CIFS/Samba will do.
Another approach would be to use a (standard) protocol to share media
itself, for example via UPnP, DLNA. FUPPES
(http://fuppes.ulrich-voelkel.de) and MediaTomb (http://mediatomb.cc)
are two such servers, which come into mind, but there most likely are
more. MythTV perhaps too. Using such an approach will make your media
available to any other UPnP/DLNA capable devices on your network, for
example, media player connected to TV/audio system (MythTV, PS3,
PopcornHour etc. etc.). I'm currently quite happy with MediaTomb on
Linux and PS3 setup.
Šarūnas
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