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Building a Linux Home Media Center

Posted by Zonk on from the you-needed-a-project-this-weekend dept.

RomanianClimber writes "Tom Lynema assembles an Ubuntu-based Linux home media center. 'Like a lot of people nowadays, I have a growing collection of digital media. My digital media is stored on a home Linux server. Most of the digital media players available today do not support protocols to connect to a Linux server, which make them unsuitable for my use. I realized the best way to connect my digital media library with my home theatre was to build my own Linux home media center (LHMC).'"

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. you know you've stumbled... by ltwally · · Score: 4, Funny
    "My Ogg music files played out of the box. The key to getting MP3 playback to work was installing libmad."
    You know when you've stumbled into linux-super-nerd-land when your media player cannot do MP3 out-of-the-box, but OGG plays just dandy!
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  3. Re:When will we not need an MCE box? by Cheeze · · Score: 5, Funny

    95% bragging, 5% actual content.

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  4. Re:When will we not need an MCE box? by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 1, Funny

    10mbps is just as fast as I can run to the video store and back (depending on the codec used and other parameters, but its close).

    10 millibits per second doesn't get much. 10 Mbps is a different animal, that can stream as much as two decent DVD streams at half max bitrate, like video on demand.

  5. Re:Me too. by erveek · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great minds think alike. However, as a True Linux User (TM) I've resorted to converting all my media into ASCII so I could view it in GNU nano by keeping my fingers on ^V. True, it's mostly porn and it takes a lot of my time but i feel my self-respect is worth it !!!


    After a while, I don't even see the code. Just blonde, brunette, redhead.
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  6. Re:When will we not need an MCE box? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    One hundred percent (%) dumbass above me

  7. Re:Stupidest article ever seen by greg1104 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you think this article is stupid now, just wait until it shows up again as a dupe.