Building a Basic HTPC: Planning

[Oneslowz28]

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Building a Basic HTPC: Planning



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(http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/frontpage/?q=Building-HTPC-pt1)By Charles Gantt

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[SXRguyinMA]

So far so good! nice write up! :)

[xr4man]

good job so far. since i am in the middle of building an htpc, i am quite intrigued to hear more. i already had chosen my hardware, but i am still in the process of figuring out what software i want to use, so i will be looking forward to next week's article with antici..........pation.

[AmEv]

Question: Did you account for spammers in the memberbase?

[Oneslowz28]

Every spammer we catch is permanently banned by IP and then their account is deleted.

[slaveofconvention]

I'm considering throwing XMBC on my media centre, but I need to read up a lil first lol

[x88x]

Good article. I think you went a bit overboard on the hardware requirements, but hey, that's what we do, neh? ;)

If you want Netflix on your Linux HTPC, one option that I ran across a while ago is PlayOn (http://www.playon.tv/playon). It looks like it's changed quite a bit since I last used it, but basically it takes content from a bunch of different sites and rebroadcasts them on your network as ...crap, I cannot for the life of me remember the term...anyways, as an open protocol stream that a bunch of devices can view and control. It shows up in XMBC as another 'channel' for each of the sources that it pulls form (listed on their website). When I used it last, it would only let you view the stuff in your Netflix queue, but you can set that from Linux anyways. ;)

Of course, there's no official Linux Blu-ray playback, so that's another consideration. But, just so people know they have options. :D

[Drum Thumper]

+1 to x88x's suggestion of PlayOn. The Mrs has been hounding me to get a box up and running with this software!
http://www.innate-ideas.net/
That's where I first heard of it.

[Oneslowz28]

Remember guys there are 3 more parts to this. Playon will be mentioned briefly but as it stands right now I will only be covering Windows 7 as the OS.

[Drum Thumper]

Remember guys there are 3 more parts to this. Playon will be mentioned briefly but as it stands right now I will only be covering Windows 7 as the OS.

Pansy. It's about time you embraced root.

[Beta-brain]

I will be building A HTPC in the near future so I will be following this closely, I was going to question why you weren't building your own case until I checked out the case you had chosen..damn that looks nice :whistler:

[Oneslowz28]

There are actually several HTPC case choices that I liked. 3 of them were way too expensive @ > $300 each, There were a few sub $100 that I liked and the Thermaltake Lanbox Lite was the winner.

[AmEv]

My HTPC case is in the last place you'd expect it to be.

And it is exactly where it should be.


If that makes sense ;)