Re: Wireless Media Server

[Mlists <mlists tdbnetworks org>]

Thats for the advice Scot, to be honest though I was hoping for
something a little less complicated that would mean I could use hardware
by the likes of D-Link, Linksys or Buffalo and point them at my fedora
box to find the mp3's and video files. Any ideas anyone ?

On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 17:59 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 14:10, Mlists wrote:
> > I'm thinking about buying a wireless media server this Christmas and was
> > wondering what luck people had had with the various solutions out there
> > working in a linux only environment.
> 
> While I have not utilized wireless for this I have been using mythtv for
> some time now.  It has changed the way I watch TV completely.  If I was
> to set this up again I would utilize a diskless netbootable front end
> system and have a single backend system that would have the encoder
> cards and drive space.
> 
> >From past discussions on the mythtv mailing list you should be able to
> use wireless (802.11g) for the connection between the frontend and the
> backend systems.  
> 
> I highly recommend mythtv if you are looking for DVR type functionality.
> 
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