mediaportal accessing videos on windows home server? (1 Viewer)

[jang]

Is this possible?

I download lots of videos and movies. I have 3 TV sets, at different locations. Is it possible to set up 3 mediaportal PCs to stream all the videos from the Windows home server to each TV?

Any instructions?

What is a TV-server?

 

[flixxx]

Yes you can.

Forget the TV server as that's for video from satellite for example and you would need a DVB card.

In your case, all you need to do is go to the home server, share the folders that have the videos.

Then on the PC you have Mediaport installed, it's easiest to "Map the network drive" in My computer -> tools.

Finally go to the Mediaportal configuration --> videos --> Folders and browse to the mapped drive.

It's important that the user has access to the home server, but if you're running Home server, you should have that figured out by now.

 

[jang]

wow! Thanks flixxx, very straight to the point. Thanks I will configure it now.

 

[pmcguire]

You can also install a DVB card into your home server and stream TV to your clients.

 

[Dr Tone]

You don't need to map a drive. Just use the UNC.