-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for a setup to play movies and music and to browse photos > over my local home network (mostly Debian, one Ubuntu machine, sometimes > a Windows machine on the wireless network). How do I start doing that? > My objective is to have all multimedia on one disk connected to a > machine (USB, firewire or SATA, not fixed yet). > >>From a little search, I have seen somebody mention NFS for which I > apparently need 2.6.27 kernel (not in Testing yet, so that option is > out). The other option seems to be to stream video -- is this really > necessary in this situation? And it won't help much with photo browsing > anyway. > > Mostly I connect between different machine via SSH. So I can open an X > display. That gives the video but no sound on my local machine. > > I have also samba setup on one machine which at present mounts a disk > which has songs and photos on it. However, I haven't yet found a way to > play the songs over samba. Also, by favorite photo browser is gqview but > it also doesn't appear to understand samba.
Of course yo can find ways to mount your media-containing volume on any of your home computers and then just use whatever players/viewers are available on that particular OS/machine. NFS, SSHfs, CIFS/Samba will do. Another approach would be to use a (standard) protocol to share media itself, for example via UPnP, DLNA. FUPPES (http://fuppes.ulrich-voelkel.de) and MediaTomb (http://mediatomb.cc) are two such servers, which come into mind, but there most likely are more. MythTV perhaps too. Using such an approach will make your media available to any other UPnP/DLNA capable devices on your network, for example, media player connected to TV/audio system (MythTV, PS3, PopcornHour etc. etc.). I'm currently quite happy with MediaTomb on Linux and PS3 setup. Šarūnas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkoJacACgkQejaFVltl6E8RoQCghWovojR3epS6gyT2RnbArT1k DJ4Anjhm9UCjIhJjOkcqzuGGohA1ryr2 =+fgU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
