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Hello there forum! This may be a 'stupid' question, but I'm gonna risk asking it
anyways - in search of a clue - hahaha...so thanks in advance for your time and
consideration.
I am an extremely mobile person mostly for work. I plan to semi-retire so I can
have an actual house/home-base sometime within the next 2 years - put down roots,
so to speak. When that happens, it will make sense (at last) to store my multi-media
library on a big computer (it's currently on many external hard-drives) and the
MediaPortal looks like an excellent product for that use. In the meantime, I
have lost movies and music due to broken or lost/stolen external hard drives and
now find it necessary to find a place to store it all online...so my question is...can
MediaPortal play an avi movie that is stored online? I am looking for a way to
stream my personal/private media library from an online drive to my netbook or
iPhone. Can MediaPortal do this? Or do you know anyone who can point me in the
right direction?
I haven't decided on an online storage site yet, I have been trying to find out
if VLC can access/play an avi stored online, or if I need to do something
between an online storage site and a pre-established live streaming site - but
those seem to be set up with P2P sharing in mind which is not appropriate or
workable (I don't believe)...or maybe I'll have to link from my media stored
online to a wimpy player on my own website (i think that might work, but
involves more steps -including flash conversion - than finding something that
can play/stream the file directly from the online source to my netbook?
Obviously I'm completely lost here...and I don't speak techie...yet, but I'm
working on it.
Anyways, thanks so much for reading and, from the bottom of my heart, I
sincerely appreciate any help or guidance you can offer.
Pura Vida! - Melinda
anyways - in search of a clue - hahaha...so thanks in advance for your time and
consideration.
I am an extremely mobile person mostly for work. I plan to semi-retire so I can
have an actual house/home-base sometime within the next 2 years - put down roots,
so to speak. When that happens, it will make sense (at last) to store my multi-media
library on a big computer (it's currently on many external hard-drives) and the
MediaPortal looks like an excellent product for that use. In the meantime, I
have lost movies and music due to broken or lost/stolen external hard drives and
now find it necessary to find a place to store it all online...so my question is...can
MediaPortal play an avi movie that is stored online? I am looking for a way to
stream my personal/private media library from an online drive to my netbook or
iPhone. Can MediaPortal do this? Or do you know anyone who can point me in the
right direction?
I haven't decided on an online storage site yet, I have been trying to find out
if VLC can access/play an avi stored online, or if I need to do something
between an online storage site and a pre-established live streaming site - but
those seem to be set up with P2P sharing in mind which is not appropriate or
workable (I don't believe)...or maybe I'll have to link from my media stored
online to a wimpy player on my own website (i think that might work, but
involves more steps -including flash conversion - than finding something that
can play/stream the file directly from the online source to my netbook?
Obviously I'm completely lost here...and I don't speak techie...yet, but I'm
working on it.
Anyways, thanks so much for reading and, from the bottom of my heart, I
sincerely appreciate any help or guidance you can offer.
Pura Vida! - Melinda