Monday, February 18, 2013

Can I use linux to stream videos to a windows pc?

Q. I have an old computer that i want to turn into a media center for my household. The problem is, I really want a linux distro on it if possible. I know Tversity and Twonky don't support linux, but is there a distro or program I could use to stream my videos?

A. http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ www.mplayherhq.hu
available in command line and GUI
â Be sure to get all the codecs, including the W32
codecs.
â available as source, RPM or Debs
â Yum RPM updates for Fedora from
www.greysector.net
Mplayer tricks
â Make a script with your favorite command-line
parameters like this
â time mplayer autoq
20 cache
32768 autosync
30 framedrop
zoom
fs
stopxscreensaver
$*
â Or put them in your GUI launcher
â mplayer-plugin for Mozilla & Firefox
â Skip ads and start at 4th file on DVD with dvd://4
(or whichever one starts the show on that DVD)

how to speed up XBMC on an old Ubuntu Linux computer?
Q. I recently installed XBMC media center on my old Ubuntu Linux computer. I am running 11.04 and have already changed the sources to the 10.10 release. There is lots of lag in the media center and a very low frame rate. Is there a way to disable some of the 3D effects to make XBMC run faster? If not is there another way to speed up XBMC media center?

A. Disable or low some of the XBMC settings
Close any programs you have open before using XBMC
Turning off any start-up programs that you don't use

Is there a way to have Window Media Center recognize and play rar'ed videos?
Q. I want WMC on XP to recognize and play video in rar archives, either by extracting it completely before playing or not.

Or should I go with some other Media Center, Windows or Linux based, excluding MythTV?

A. No,only the archiver application can recognise the file. Not that there is any point in compressing a video file as they already, usually have high compression levels due to their encoding.



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