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An easy local copy solution would be to install BitTorrent Sync on both computers. It works just like Dropbox without the cloud. You'd need both computers on at the same time to sync, but I used it for a whole and just made sure to run both my computers at the same time once a week or so to make sure everything copied over. The downside is you're duplicating the files, so you need twice the space total. It was cheaper for me to build a server than upgrade two sets of hard drives when I ran out of space. And that means you only need to maintain one library.
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Uthor posted:An easy local copy solution would be to install BitTorrent Sync on both computers. It works just like Dropbox without the cloud. You'd need both computers on at the same time to sync, but I used it for a whole and just made sure to run both my computers at the same time once a week or so to make sure everything copied over. Yeah, BitTorrent Sync is good. If you really don't want to lift a finger in aid of the other party, this is a good solution.
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Thermopyle posted:Yeah, BitTorrent Sync is good. If you really don't want to lift a finger in aid of the other party, this is a good solution. Eh, I think setting it up at all is pretty kind because it really doesn't take privileged knowledge for both of us to do the bare minimum (set up and connect to a shared folder and do the transfers while we sleep, say) but he's kind of incapable of doing - or unwilling to do - anything but follow maybe one or two steps that I lay out for him and complain when it breaks. Thanks though, I had a feeling that an NAS would be the next step here. Or moving the laptop and IR blasting to the FLIRC somehow...
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tuyop posted:Eh, I think setting it up at all is pretty kind because it really doesn't take privileged knowledge for both of us to do the bare minimum (set up and connect to a shared folder and do the transfers while we sleep, say) but he's kind of incapable of doing - or unwilling to do - anything but follow maybe one or two steps that I lay out for him and complain when it breaks. To be clear, I wasn't passing judgement...I probably would tell him to do his own pirating.
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tuyop posted:Eh, I think setting it up at all is pretty kind because it really doesn't take privileged knowledge for both of us to do the bare minimum (set up and connect to a shared folder and do the transfers while we sleep, say) but he's kind of incapable of doing - or unwilling to do - anything but follow maybe one or two steps that I lay out for him and complain when it breaks. Sounds like he doesn't get to have glorious pirated HD movies and TV shows, then.
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I think we got mixed up here guys, these are 100% ripped import blurays that are totally legit! Very rare.
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My Roku and Plex has replaced my HTPC for 95% of viewing cases. and I'm really hoping to figure out the last 5% so I can turn my HTPC into just a home server that I can put in a closet. Goal being that I could clear up that spot in my media cabinet. The only thing I'm using my HTPC-HDMI-TV connection for is the occassional stream that is only available through a browser. Is the only solution long HDMI cable, and USB extenders? Is Microsoft's Wireless Display Adapter (or other solution) not capable of doing video?
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Why not just Chromecast from a phone/laptop to the TV? Heck the Roku supports it even. I was casting from my phone to my brothers Roku when I was over there the other day. Between the FireTVs various apps and the Chromecast I haven't turned on my HTPC to do anything in awhile. Its basically just an emulation box now.
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The Gunslinger posted:Why not just Chromecast from a phone/laptop to the TV? Heck the Roku supports it even. I was casting from my phone to my brothers Roku when I was over there the other day. Same here. I spent a good several weeks building the perfect HTPC and then Chromecast came out a week after I built it and I pretty much haven't turned it on since then. Emulation only, and even that is iffy because of how janky Nintendo games play on a 55" LED TV.
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I had an HTPC running Kodi + a separate file server. After I got the new AppleTV and the new Plex app I was able to drop HTPC/Kodi completely. gently caress tweaking Kodi settings and all of the hassle with computers and HDMI handshaking issues. It *just works* now. And the best part is I replaced a huge computer box pretending to be home theatre equipment with a small black box that can sit on top of my bluray player. The only thing I'm really missing at this point is an Amazon Prime app but I know that it is being worked on (playing, not buying). That isn't the best part of all of this. Since I was making the jump away from Kodi I decided to also overhaul the file server at the same time. I decided to move away from FreeBSD and go with a very basic Ubuntu server install with the only changes to the base system being 1) sshd + config 2) zfs file system 3) Docker installation. Everything is ran through separate Docker containers. This is making the maintenance of the system so much easier. Sonarr is a container, CouchPotato is a separate container, etc, etc. For me the idea of an HTPC is dead. Devices like AppleTV, Roku, etc. being so capable and cheap now have made it obsolete. xgalaxy fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Feb 19, 2016 |
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xgalaxy posted:I had an HTPC running Kodi + a separate file server. After I got the new AppleTV and the new Plex app I was able to drop HTPC/Kodi completely. gently caress tweaking Kodi settings and all of the hassle with computers and HDMI handshaking issues. It *just works* now. And the best part is I replaced a huge computer box pretending to be home theatre equipment with a small black box that can sit on top of my bluray player. This is awesome. Our router and HTPC are both in the process of dying now (so many DNS problems or straight up crashes, i/o errors and BSOD crashes), and I'm getting a new job so we're in the market for an overhaul. Can you describe how you manage your acquisition and labelling of totally legit import rips this way? How do you get the 100% legit animus onto the file server so that your ATV can use them?
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tuyop posted:This is awesome. Our router and HTPC are both in the process of dying now (so many DNS problems or straight up crashes, i/o errors and BSOD crashes), and I'm getting a new job so we're in the market for an overhaul. Can you describe how you manage your acquisition and labelling of totally legit import rips this way? How do you get the 100% legit animus onto the file server so that your ATV can use them? Installed in separate Docker containers are: nzbget, sonarr, couch potato, and finally plex media server. I have ZFS installed with mounts for /storage/downloads, /storage/legit_movies, /storage/legit_tvshows. Finally I have a ZFS mount point for /storage/config. The nzbget container is exposed via the web api and writes to what it thinks is the folder /downloads which is actually mapped to /storage/downloads. The sonarr container is exposed via the web api and reads and writes to what it thinks is the folder /tvshows which is actually mapped to /storage/legit_tvshows, it also needs to know about a /downloads folder which is, surprise, mapped to /storage/downloads. Same thing with couch potato and plex server. Each of these containers also knows about another folder location called /config that is mapped to /storage/config. Inside of /storage/config I have separate folders for nzbget, sonarr, etc. This is the location where the configuration files, preferences, etc. are stored. Finally the really cool part is to update any of these things to their latest versions all I have to do is restart the docker container. The docker container script looks for, fetches, and installs completely clean updates, as if it was installed brand spanking new. And since the containers for each of these has /config mapped to /storage/config it picks up all the existing settings and I don't have to restore backups or try and recreate settings. Additionally all of these things don't actually know what the real ip addresses, ports, and folders actually are, since Docker is hiding it from them, I can make changes to the outside system and update the mappings without having to go through a bunch of trouble. Basically Docker is really loving cool and I highly recommend its use for anyone here that may be running a file server. xgalaxy fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Feb 19, 2016 |
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Ixian posted:As for bitstreaming, this is something being actively worked on by Google - the December update fixed TrueHD, and DTS HD is being worked on. You can also just natively force bitstreaming inside Kodi by disabling passthrough in it - counter intuitive, I know, but that will actually do the opposite of what you think since Kodi will pass on a 7.1 LPCM stream to your A/V receiver. Huh, any other seriously useful tips for somebody that has had a Shield TV for six months and didn't know either of these things?
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What do people prefer about Plex over Kodi? I have OpenElec running on my RPi2 and the files on a Gen8 Microsever running XPEnology. There is a Plex server running on it because my sister has a Plex app on her smart TV and it was easier than buying something new and it doesn't have to do any transcoding. How does Plex do with remotes on HDMI CEC and Flirc? Is there an OpenElec like OS for RPi2 that runs Plex instead?
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You can get 80% of the benefits of Docker in the HTPC / NAS services sense by just running FreeNAS, which uses FreeBSD jails to do the job. It comes with a GUI and while there's Docker GUIs aplenty out there, it's a substantially more fragmented consumer experience than using FreeNAS, which is one of the most popular NAS OSes. Most people in the thread really should not get involved with Docker containers at this point I'd strongly argue.uhhhhahhhhohahhh posted:What do people prefer about Plex over Kodi? I have OpenElec running on my RPi2 and the files on a Gen8 Microsever running XPEnology. There is a Plex server running on it because my sister has a Plex app on her smart TV and it was easier than buying something new and it doesn't have to do any transcoding. I setup Plex to work with Flirc with little fuss and that's not really quite related to HDMI-CEC. Plex has a new client called Plex Media Player that is targeted at RPi machines as well as beefier hardware that is aimed at replacing Plex Home Theater. necrobobsledder fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Feb 19, 2016 |
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uhhhhahhhhohahhh posted:What do people prefer about Plex over Kodi? I definitely prefer Kodi over Plex. I haven't found a way to scrape TV shows in DVD order in Plex, so I have to manually change all the information, which is a huge pain. My Futuramas are all screwed up 'cause I don't want to manually modify 100 episodes.
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Uthor posted:I definitely prefer Kodi over Plex. I haven't found a way to scrape TV shows in DVD order in Plex, so I have to manually change all the information, which is a huge pain. My Futuramas are all screwed up 'cause I don't want to manually modify 100 episodes. Does Kodi have an android app that you can offline pin files? I'd like a setup where I open an app on the phone that just lists all my media, and I can just pin what I want. I know flex does that, but you have to pay, right?
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:Does Kodi have an android app that you can offline pin files? I'd like a setup where I open an app on the phone that just lists all my media, and I can just pin what I want. I know flex does that, but you have to pay, right? Plex doesn't require a paid version for streaming, maybe for offline viewing. I use Kodi on my nice plasma and home theater. But plex on all our other tv's since our tivos have built in clients.
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Don Lapre posted:Plex doesn't require a paid version for streaming, maybe for offline viewing. Definitely for offline viewing. I don't stream media all that much away from home. 99% of the time, I'm running Kodi on my HTPC, sometimes I'll pull up Plex on my phone if I don't want to get out of bed or on my Xbox if I'm at my parents' house. So, I'm fine with a half-assed Plex library (see above re: Futurama) and copying media manually if I want it on the go.
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Is the watched/unwatched stored on the server though? I'd want my own watched list on my device, not what my sister has watched on her TV
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uhhhhahhhhohahhh posted:Is the watched/unwatched stored on the server though? I'd want my own watched list on my device, not what my sister has watched on her TV Plex can have multiple users for one library.
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uhhhhahhhhohahhh posted:Is the watched/unwatched stored on the server though? I'd want my own watched list on my device, not what my sister has watched on her TV
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Uthor posted:Definitely for offline viewing. My workflow is that I commonly download files to my NAS and then want to take them on my commute to my phone/tablet. I do it now by just opening ES Explorer and downloading them from my NAS. If I'm not home, though, it's' a little more complicated.If I could just open Plex and pin it, that'd be great. I have 30gb/month and plenty of wifi on any commute, so I can even grab them while Im on the train.
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necrobobsledder posted:Plex doesn't require as much beefy hardware as Kodi / XBMC on clients. Really? I don't know that I've found that to be the case. In my experience it just depends on the skin you use in Kodi. SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:Does Kodi have an android app that you can offline pin files? I'd like a setup where I open an app on the phone that just lists all my media, and I can just pin what I want. I know flex does that, but you have to pay, right? To do this, you use Emby with Kodi. Emby works like Plex basically but where it comes into its own if you prefer Kodi is that its Kodi plugin takes over library management so that Kodi always reflects the state of your Emby library. Then, if you want to do mobile device streaming or pinning, you use the mobile Emby app. When you use Kodi on your TV the watched and progress state of your media is in-sync with Emby. I really can't overstress how excellent and seamless the intergration with Kodi is. As far as Kodi goes the experience is basically just the same as if you're not use Emby...except your watched state stays in sync with your mobile clients (or if you use the Emby app on Roku/smart-tv/whatever-device). Plus, managing your metadata is far easier with Emby then it is with Kodi. edit: I also wanted to add for the people who complain about always having to twiddle with Kodi...you bring that on yourself. You have to twiddle with Kodi because you twiddle with Kodi. If you set it up and stop messing with it you never have to configure it again. I mean, I have a Kodi installation upstairs that went 2 years without me messing with its configuration. Thermopyle fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Feb 19, 2016 |
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Thermopyle posted:Really? I don't know that I've found that to be the case. In my experience it just depends on the skin you use in Kodi. Thanks for the breakdown. So I have this: NAS w/ movies->Server with Kodi and Emby plug in -> emby mobile app. Does this require a paid emby feature?
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:Thanks for the breakdown. More like: NAS w/ movies and Emby server -> HTPC with Kodi and Emby plugin and/or emby apps on mobile devices. Yes, mobile sync is an emby premier feature.
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Yeah, our kodi install is relatively low maintenance. It's not a solution for grandmas because if your scraper fails or a file doesn't transfer or rename correctly via the renamer, you have to track the file processing path and manually adjust things, but as far as kodi configuration goes, I haven't had to adjust it since changing some key bindings and installing a skin. Though maybe you mean when add ons break or something, which just sucks.
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Thermopyle posted:More like:
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:Eh, my es explorer works fine. I already have a vpn configured from my phone to my house, so I can fire it up and snatch the files while I'm out. I don't feel like configuring anything else. Not to try and sell you on it (I am not affiliated with Emby) but the paid option is worth it. I have your exact use case - outside of my in-home media viewing I sync stuff all the time to watch on the road, since I travel a lot for business. The way you are doing it certainly works, so I'm not judging you, but a full Emby setup makes the process a lot easier. There is a lot of work up front (check the Emby thread, I can help with that) but after that learning curve day to day it "just works". I just got back from another trip where I had all the shows I watch available on the road. What I like to do - and what Emby is really good at - is set new episodes of shows, like for example Better Call Saul (which is great) to auto-transcode and upload to Dropbox when they air/come out. That way even if the episode isn't out when I leave for my trip, I can download an optimized version and import it right to my Emby/Kodi client on my Surface on the road, which is normally much, much faster than trying to download it from my home server (I am in the US so my upstream, while supposedly 20Mbps, isn't as fast as Dropbox). And when I get home and connect my laptop back to my home network it auto-syncs my watched status for my user profile. It is pretty awesome if you take a little time. BTW, with the recent Emby release, this isn't just for content downloaded via the Linux ISO route. It also will work for stuff you record if you have Live TV configured with Emby. I record shows all the time via OTA this way. I have to deal with commercials (I haven't gone through the trouble of using a commercial-snipping addon yet) but that is a small thing. Ixian fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Feb 19, 2016 |
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Thermopyle posted:edit: I also wanted to add for the people who complain about always having to twiddle with Kodi...you bring that on yourself. You have to twiddle with Kodi because you twiddle with Kodi. If you set it up and stop messing with it you never have to configure it again. I mean, I have a Kodi installation upstairs that went 2 years without me messing with its configuration. Blaming the victims
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:Eh, my es explorer works fine. I already have a vpn configured from my phone to my house, so I can fire it up and snatch the files while I'm out. I don't feel like configuring anything else. You don't realize how awesome it is until you set it up...but having it all happen automatically is rad.
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So I'm trying to use my Vizo model vo32e HDTV as my PC monitor. My PC desktop has a Sapphire HD 6870 video card. Every time I plug it in using an HDMI cable the screen is either dark blank or I get an intermittent flashing screen that shows what's on the screen but with a kind of messed up RED haze. I know this tv works for this because I can plug in an HDMI cable from my tv to my Dell xps L501x laptop and it shows my laptop screen like a charm. Any ideas what could be causing this and how to fix it?
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-Blackadder- posted:So I'm trying to use my Vizo model vo32e HDTV as my PC monitor. My PC desktop has a Sapphire HD 6870 video card. Every time I plug it in using an HDMI cable the screen is either dark blank or I get an intermittent flashing screen that shows what's on the screen but with a kind of messed up RED haze. Why would you use a 32-inch 720p TV as a PC monitor?
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TheScott2K posted:Why would you use a 32-inch 720p TV as a PC monitor? I wanted a larger screen and I had the tv lying around. Specifically I wanted something I could play local co-op steam games on when friends came over. I'm guessing based on your question that there are reasons I shouldn't do this?
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-Blackadder- posted:I wanted a larger screen and I had the tv lying around. Specifically I wanted something I could play local co-op steam games on when friends came over. I'm guessing based on your question that there are reasons I shouldn't do this? You probably have the resolution on your PC set waaaaay too high for a 720p TV to recognize the signal. Connect it to a standard monitor and lower the resolution to 1280x720 (max that TV can support).
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Medullah posted:You probably have the resolution on your PC set waaaaay too high for a 720p TV to recognize the signal. Connect it to a standard monitor and lower the resolution to 1280x720 (max that TV can support). I tried that, but still blank, and some intermittent weird audio sounds like it's still flashing static. If it helps identify the problem, it does the same thing in the console boot menu even before windows is loaded.
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Normally I'd say refresh rate and/or resolution were too high as well but if it's doing it at boot it might be the cable. HDMI cables can be pretty fickle and there are tons of lovely ones around. And a cable that works for one combination of devices doesn't always work for another. Try a different one.
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-Blackadder- posted:I wanted a larger screen and I had the tv lying around. Specifically I wanted something I could play local co-op steam games on when friends came over. I'm guessing based on your question that there are reasons I shouldn't do this? Massive pixels, screen door effect, probably pretty bad colors since it's a cheap TV and not a monitor.
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necrobobsledder posted:
I know but I'm not really liking the Flirc, it's got such a small angle where I have to point at and the CEC on my old rear end Sony doesn't work. If I want to use that remote I only have like 8 buttons in random places that don't do poo poo on the TV. I found a spare remote for a VC at work but it feels really unresponsive, having to press twice to get it to do stuff. Think I'm going to get a Bluetooth remote and hope it works well on an RPi2 meat clown fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Feb 22, 2016 |
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