Multiseat setup "dumb" question? (1 Viewer)

[Unregistered]

Hi Everyone,

I have been looking at Mediaportal amongs others e.g. Myth TV/Mythbuntu etc etc. and after initial dabbling it appears to have a lot of promise as a replacement for my ageing freeview recorder. But, I want the Mediaportal client to be just that e.g. hold no content and get everything from the server - TV/DVDs/Pics/music etc.

I have worked out how to install Mediaportal as a TV client and it talks to the server OK for TV (I've not actually seen streaming TV yet but the client is talking to the server) , but - I can't work out how to get it to see other media types, there do not appear to be any options on the client to make it go look for other media.

I have seen a guide detailing how to get multiple clients to share a central server database but it says that is not officially supported.

Am I missing something? Is it blatently obvious what needs doing to make the client to point to the server for all content and I'm just being dumb ???

TIA

Cheers

AJS

 

[ma9mwah]

mediaportal doesn't stream other mediafiles across a network, what you need to do is have a shared DB as well as setting all your media folders up as network shares on the client machine. Hopefully this will be changed in version2 so that its a true client/server setup.

 

[geov]

ma9mwah is correct, but just for the record its called TV-Server, therefore the client/server function is only applicable to TV functionality. I've also never seen any plans for adding media-streaming functionality, so don't hold your breath.....

 

[dklong]

AJS

I have a second PC set up in the kids family room and have it set up with just the MediaPortal client software. As already mentioned by others, the TV streams from the Server quite happily and I have just set up shares to the movies and other media and configured the client so that it looks the the same as the server. You can't really tell that it is coming from another PC. I have even set up Daemon Tools to play .ISO images etc in the same way.

It all works seamlessly and using the second PC looks/feels the same as the server.

Good Luck!