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Options for streaming videos to my TV from a PC

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  • 06-06-2013 2:33pm
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    mayoman1973
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    I am in the middle of a house build and we are adding Cat6 n/w cabling and stuff.
    I want to create a centralised location for all my media/photos etc usual sort of stuff.
    I have a relatively powerful 8 core/16GB PC running Windows 7 which has 4TB of HD storage so I was hoping I could use this as a media server instead of buying a dedicated NAS system. I plan to have a basic media player at each TV, which will then stream files from this back end server. The media players I have in mind are only £15 and they can also decode files on the fly so the server would not need to do this. What software can I have running on the PC that will allow each media player to access the MKV files etc as if they were on a simple NAS drive? Would an older PC be able to acomplish this task at all as I have 2 older PCs I would like to put to good use other than sending them to PC heaven?


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    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    What are the media players you're looking at? All you might need to do, is possibly set up what ever folder you have your media in, as a share folder/share drive.


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    amallon
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    I'm using Windows Media Center with XBOX's as extenders at each TV. I really like it, I have a dual tuner in the PC so I can record two shows at the same time, pause live TV etc. I can play music library through the TV . Photo slideshows are simple.


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    mayoman1973
    Registered Users Posts: 1,386 ✭✭✭mayoman1973


    I think it was a Freecom one, has no HD, just N/W adapter and some HW decoder and a remote.


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