Guides, tutorials, tips, and tricks on home media, streaming, media players, and home theater devices. In addition, other relevant topics such as downloaders and library organizers are also covered.
Like I explained in my previous post, I have an Ubuntu Server playing HD audio and video using Turtle Beach USB Audio Card and Broadcom CrystalHD. Pulseaudio worked when using VLC for some reason I did not get Dolby/DTS passthrough from XBMC. So I had to remove it as I … read more
In the previous post, I explained my audio problem with Turtle Beach USB Sound Card and XBMC. I read several posts mentioned in the previous post and did a lot of “trial and error” work. I learned that at this point pulseaudio cannot passthrough HD audio. However, I did manage … read more
In previous posts, I provided an overview of the process and the i explained how I installed CrystalHD drivers. In this part, I will describe how I compiled and installed XBMC from source with CrystalHD support. If you have not already installed all the dependencies, then check my previous post … read more
In a previous post, I provided an overview of the whole process that I went through. In this part, I am going to describe the procedure I used to install Crystal HD drivers. Before you even begin the process, you will have to install a bunch of files that are … read more
Patriot Box Office PCMPBO25 is an amazing media player from Patriot Memory. For quite some time, it has been a hassle to program logitech harmony remote to control Box Office. The only way to program the remote was to manually learn and configure each key. Well, not any more. Patriot … read more
In my previous post (Installing XBMC on Ubuntu Server with Broadcom Crystal HD Decoder BCM70015) I explained how I installed XBMC. The video worked awesome. The Intel GMA 950 card on the Wind box supported up to 2048 x 1536 resolution. This was good enough to display 1920 x 1080 … read more
Below are my network streaming settings: 1. MSI Wind Nettop Atom 330 server running Ubuntu Server (Lucid) and MiniDLNA 2. LG 42LE5400 TV that can run media from MiniDLNA (no subtitles) 3. LG BD570 Bluray player that can run media from MiniDLNA (no subtitles) and SMB/CIFS (subtitles work) So, just … read more
I recently purchased the LG 42LE5400 LED-LCD 42 inch TV and the LG BD570 Network Bluray player basically to stream movies from my Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 Home Server. Recently, I described how to stream content from network server on these devices using MiniDLNA. In this post, I will describe … read more
There is an updated post describing installation of MiniDLNA on Ubuntu Server (12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin). DLNA allows you to play home network media on all compatible devices over the network. A DLNA server is a streaming video server that can stream content to other networked media players. MiniDLNA is … read more
