Re: playing multimedia over my local network - how?
- From: Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:30:47 -0500
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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).
apparently need 2.6.27 kernel (not in Testing yet, so that option isFrom a little search, I have seen somebody mention NFS for which I
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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