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Hi, firstly, I don't know a great deal about this, so please talk to me like you would your granny!
We have 4 internet Sony Bravia TV's, 2 Internet Sony Blu Ray Players and a PS3. All of them are capable of streaming video, music and pictures from my desktop PC, although there is an issue with some file formats, oddly some videos that work from USB will not play when streamed, even though the tv's can see the files.
We will probably be using Netgear powerline adaptors
What I would like, is a central point to have all of the media stored, I don't know if my old desktop will be used, or if I can use one of those NAS type things. Can I plug external HDD's into the desktop and access those too?
What is the normal way of creating this type of network?
Cheers all
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The easiest, free way is Tversity, which can transcode on the fly to a format your devices can understand. There's also a PS3-specific server, "ps3mediaserver" or some such IIRC, you could try.
Whether that's the [i]best [/i]way is another matter. I've had a similar setup for a while but am getting fed up with the drop in quality and having to have the PC on all the time, so will be looking at some sort of NAS solution myself at some point.
Personally, I use [url= http://www.serviio.org/ ]Serviio[/url] on my iMac (it's multiplatform and free), and this serves up everything, vids/pics/music, to my [url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-UE32D5000-32-inch-Widescreen-Freeview/dp/B004S5ZWJM ]Samsung TV[/url] downstairs. The Samsung can play most files natively, DTS audio being an issue, so I have transcoding turned off in Serviio, so none of the quality drop that Cougar has. I have my computer on most the day, so depending on whether you do or not, this may be an issue.
All this is done over WiFi using Virgin Superhub.
So in summary, get your server and, I assume it's DLNA that is the streaming protocol, install a DLNA client on it, and that should be half the battle.
Cheers.
Are the NAS drives I've seen on eBay not worth bothering with then?