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<blockquote data-quote="moore63" data-source="post: 957361" data-attributes="member: 136136"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Hi might be looking to change over to Media Portal from WMC however I’m looking for some advice first. My current setup consists for 4 computers and one Netgear NAS. They are all linked via gigabit Ethernet. Two of the computers have TV tuner cards in them, at the moment they both record directly to the NAS over the network. This allows all the computers on the network to see and play back all of the TV show which have been recorded. Also on the NAS is a folder containing ripped DVDs and Blu-Rays, again all 4 computers can see this folder and play back any of the films stored.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">What I am trying to work out is how MP’s client / server setup fits into my setup. At the moment the NAS would be the server. However the NAS is not capable of running MP as a server. Would every machine need to have both client and server software install?</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">The reason for choosing the NAS was so that I don’t have to leave any of the machines running 24/7 the NAS just adds centralised storage to the router which is running 24/7 anyway.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moore63, post: 957361, member: 136136"] [SIZE=4][FONT=Calibri]Hi might be looking to change over to Media Portal from WMC however I’m looking for some advice first. My current setup consists for 4 computers and one Netgear NAS. They are all linked via gigabit Ethernet. Two of the computers have TV tuner cards in them, at the moment they both record directly to the NAS over the network. This allows all the computers on the network to see and play back all of the TV show which have been recorded. Also on the NAS is a folder containing ripped DVDs and Blu-Rays, again all 4 computers can see this folder and play back any of the films stored.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Calibri]What I am trying to work out is how MP’s client / server setup fits into my setup. At the moment the NAS would be the server. However the NAS is not capable of running MP as a server. Would every machine need to have both client and server software install?[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Calibri]The reason for choosing the NAS was so that I don’t have to leave any of the machines running 24/7 the NAS just adds centralised storage to the router which is running 24/7 anyway.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Calibri] [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Calibri]Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. [/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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