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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
I hooked up an old Win XP P4 to my 52" LCD HDTV in my living room as a media server and I simply drag and drop any Xvid, Divx etc video files over to the the P4 from my laptop or wherever I have the files via a wireles connection and play the files locally from the P4 in my living room to my HDTV using a DVI to HDMI cable. The best part is that the P4 has a Windows Media Center version of XP on it which comes with a remote so I can play, pause, FF or RW from the couch!
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Originally Posted by MrBottomTooth
I use a small computer made by Acer called a Revo. (has built in HDMI) Basically makes the perfect home theater PC if you have a server in the house you can stream from. Just add a $20 infrared receiver and you can control it with any programmable universal remote. (I use a couple different models from Logitech)
I have it boot up directly into Windows Media Center, and I have the mediabrowser plugin installed, so you can run a setup like this:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2sddO...eature=related
I tried using xboxes but there was too many file format incompatibilities.
Install the shark007 codec pack and you can play absolutely ANY file type in media center. |
Nice!
Thats pretty much exactly what I'm trying to do, however control it from 3 different TVs.
I found a few options that allow you have multiple outputs, but I'm not sure if you can watch one file on one TV and another on another TV.
Basically, it will go HTPC (or currently just my PC) then cat6 wires connected near the TVs... trying to figure what to connect the cat6 to, to display the content on the TV