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Originally Posted by JSorrentino  I'm seeing mixed comments about the bandwidth for uncompressed 1080p/i - is Gigabit Ethernet sufficient? This can throw a hitch into my plans. |
My gigabit network handles anything I can throw at it just fine. I don't have jumbo frames enabled on any of my nic's and everything seems fine. I guess I can't really say I've done uncompressed video, but I've streamed very high bitrate mpeg2 ATSC streams and high bitrate h.264 videos without a hitch whatsoever. I really wouldn't sweat it.
If anything your bottleneck will be a poorly configured NAS device. Don't skimp. But don't go insane, either.
I wanted to reiterate what Bagal said as well, the "My Videos" plugin built into MP can handle multiple directories just fine, I actually have my views set to "Share" so I can view my TV rips and suchlike. I haven't bothered to rename everything enough to set up the TV Series plugin yet, but all my movies are scanned into the database for cover art and movie info. If you aren't going to have any little vids or anything then using a database view will work great.
Also, FFDSHOW or AC3Filter can output the audio stream straight to SPDIF so no worries there. I use FFDSHOW for just about everything for convenience and cleanliness.
Good luck, this sounds like a great project!