XBMC, which will be renamed to Kodi Entertainment Center soon, has been updated to XBMC 13.2 Gotham. XBMC is the media center of choice for most platforms. It is also the base of the media center operating systems such as OpenELEC and Raspbmc that power Raspberry Pi based low-cost low-power … read more
Want your Chromecast to play locally-stored content on TV? AllCast may be a solution. You may remember from our recent post that Chromecast is one of the best client devices for Plex. The Allcast Android app lets you send photos, music, and video stored on your Android device to your … read more
This guide shows you how to setup Chromecast from your Android phone or tablet. One year back, out of the blue, Google announced Chromecast, a HDMI digital media player that is less than 3 inches long. Content can be streamed from Chromecast-enabled mobile or web apps. Using Chromecast mirroring you … read more
Based on popular request, here is the guide to install Raspbmc on Raspberry Pi. If you have been following me you may already know that I have been a fan of OpenELEC on Raspberry Pi. Well that changed recently after my latest comparison of Raspbmc and OpenELEC. I quickly started … read more
Raspbmc and Crystalbuntu are getting bigger and better and evolving into OSMC (Open Source Media Center). In my recent comparison of Raspbmc and OpenELEC, the two major OSes that bring XBMC to Raspberry Pi, my choice was Raspbmc. One of the exciting things about Raspbmc is whats coming in the … read more
Last year, I published a detailed comparison of Raspbmc vs OpenELEC in terms of speed and options/features, in which I concluded that OpenELEC was the operating system of choice for my Raspberry Pi media center. I also said that this could possible change as the operating systems continue to develop. … read more
XBMC, the most popular media center software for any platform, will become Kodi entertainment center starting version 14 (Helix). XBMC 14, scratch that, Kodi 14 of course will have the same if not better awesomeness. While the renaming was done to better reflect its current capabilities and to be able … read more
If someone is serving images that are stored on your server directly on their webpage (aka image hot linking) then this image hotlink protection tip for Nginx webserver can help you. If an image is hotlinked then the domain name in its HTML src path and the webpage’s domain name … read more
Raspbmc is a minimal Linux distribution based on Debian that brings XBMC to your Raspberry Pi. While Raspbmc offers great features, it has been found to fall behind on speed and fluidity compared to other media center OSes. This post introduces the recently released Raspbmc July update 2014. What’s New … read more