Google Play Music is a subscription based music streaming service from, obviously, Google. If you haven’t already tried it yet, Google Music is a great way of listening to your favourite tunes on Android, iOS or a web browser. But can you run Google Music on XBMC? Now you can. … read more
In the recent months the XBMC ESPN addon errors out with “script failed” error message as shown in the picture below. Using this ESPN plugin by bluecop is one of the 3 ways to watch ESPN on XBMC. Many users of the XBMC ESPN addon have reported “Script Failed!: plugin.video.espn3”, … read more
DLNA allows you to play home network media on all compatible devices over the network. In this post, I will explain how to compile and install MiniDLNA on Ubuntu (now ReadyMedia) from the Git repository. Previously, I wrote posts on how to install MiniDLNA on Ubuntu 10.04 by downloading the … read more
XBMC is slowly becoming, if not already, the top cross-platform media center application. In post I will share 3 ways to watch ESPN online for free on XBMC. With the work on the next release (13 – Gotham) already in progress, the team now has released XBMC for Windows, Mac, … read more
DLNA allows you to play home network media on all compatible devices over the network. Last year I wrote a post on how to setup MiniDLNA, the free media server software in ubuntu 10.04. I also pointed out the limitations of MiniDLNA media server and why I moved away from … read more
XBMC is a great media player, very well suited for HPTCs. There are several XBMC addons that stream videos from the internet. In this post, I am doing to describe how to play Amazon Prime Videos on XBMC (both free and rented videos), running on a Ubuntu system. With the … read more
I recently purchased a Patriot Box Office based on all the rave reviews it had as a multiformat HD media player. It is being touted as the best media player for sub $100. For wifi capability, I purchased the AirLink101 AWLL6075 Wireless N Mini USB Adapter due to its known … 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
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