- December 21, 2007
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Hi Guys, hope I'm posting in the correct forum. I learnt about media portal when asking questions about HTPCs on the DigitalSpy forum. I'm planning on building an HTPC and your application looks excellent.
However, reading about TV Server, I would like to have a go at this first and install Media Portal on my Son's PC.
I currently have a server running as a NAS box. It stores all my videos, music and pictures for access by (currently) 3 PC clients. The box is a Compaq Proliant ML310 Xeon 2.53GHz, 1.5GB memory and running a SATA RAID5 on 3 disks. Server 2003 as an Operating system.
My questions:
That's for starters. I'd like to see this system work as it sounds like the best option rather than having TV cards in all the separate PCs (kid's PCs double as their entertainment systems as well).
Regards
Gary
However, reading about TV Server, I would like to have a go at this first and install Media Portal on my Son's PC.
I currently have a server running as a NAS box. It stores all my videos, music and pictures for access by (currently) 3 PC clients. The box is a Compaq Proliant ML310 Xeon 2.53GHz, 1.5GB memory and running a SATA RAID5 on 3 disks. Server 2003 as an Operating system.
My questions:
- Firstly, would this box be suitable for TV Server?
- Would I be able to use as a NAS box as well as running TV server?
- Best OS? 2003 or XP? I'm not fussy.
- I have 2 Compro Videomate T100 DVB-T cards not seeing them mention under Hardware Specs. Can they be used?
That's for starters. I'd like to see this system work as it sounds like the best option rather than having TV cards in all the separate PCs (kid's PCs double as their entertainment systems as well).
Regards
Gary