Good afternoon,
I have to do a project in raspberry pi 3, namely the creation and setting up a media center.
I would like to receive tips, what I can incorporate into raspberry pi and what I can do besides a media center.
Greetings,
Telmo Marques
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I've set this up at home, it converts movies on the fly to WMV and acts like windows media center, except without windows media center best of all, it's free:
http://www.tversity.com/
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What is the TVersity Media Server?
The TVersity Media Server lets you manage your Internet and home media and create your personalized lineup of channels, or as we call it your Personal Entertainment Guide (PEG). It then serves this media to a multitude of networked devices in the home or on the go, overcoming their inherent limitations by doing all the necessary conversions on the fly, and thus making your media available anywhere, anytime and from any device.
What devices are supported by the TVersity Media Server?
TVersity is the most versatile media server and the only one that is truly universal in the range of devices it supports. TVersity can serve media to:
* Devices supporting the UPnP AV / DLNA standard (which is the de-facto standard for connecitivity between devices in the digital home). This includes
* Devices like networked TVs, DVDs, Stereo Receivers, Digital Media Adapaters/Receivers (including the Xbox 360), Mobile Phones, Satellite and Cable set-top-boxes and more.
* Devices with a web browser (XHTML-MP or WAP 2.0) and media streaming or downloading capabilities like Mobile Phones, PDAs, the Sony PSP, and more.
* Devices with an RSS reader and media streaming or downloading capabilities like the Sony PSP, iTunes/iPod and more.
What types of media can the TVersity Media Server handle? TVersity can handle almost any media format and streaming protocol whether it is coming from your home network or the Internet including live and on-demand Internet streams. This makes it possible to access from your device of choice, Internet TV and Radio stations, audio and video Podcasts, photo blogs and photo feeds (from flickr and other sources), Internet playlist communities (like Webjay.org), video search engines (from Yahoo, Google and others) and much more.
Why should I try the TVersity Media Server?
With TVersity your typical living room experience can be truly personalized making you the programmer, and making all the multimedia content on the Internet available for playback at a click on your remote. Staying connected on the go has never been easier, as TVersity makes the same program guide you created available for playback from a wide range of mobile devices. The future of entertainment is here, Try it now!
it's great, i use it for my xbox360.. normally it can only handle wmv streams, with tversity i can stream anything!
I would like use my GT7510 to manage streaming content to my WDTV Live Plus. I can do some of what I would like to do now, by using Apps such as ZappoTV which allows me to send music, movies and photos stored on my PC to my AV Receiver. In order to make this happen, I have to use a media server such as TVersity. There are some limitations but basically this marriage works OK. I am hoping for something better.
I would really like to stream content from apps such as Pandora, AudioGalaxy, Google Music or even iTunes to my AV receiver without having to turn on my TV in order to access the WDTV UI. I have a projection TV that takes a few minutes to warm up so I would like to avoid this step if possible.
In a perfect world, I should be able to fire up my AV receiver, select the input assigned to WDTV box and send a stream that I can view or listen to in my GTab to my TV or stereo. Is this possible?
Bob
.. What are you hoping to do exactly? Your post is so unclear!
View content from your PC on your tablet?
View content from your WDTV on your tablet?
View content from your tablet on your WDTV?
Control your WDTV over your tablet?
"In a perfect world, I should be able to fire up my AV receiver [are you talking of another device, like a Satellite Receiver or Cable descrambler?], select the input assigned to WDTV box and send a stream [from the WDTV?] that I can view or listen to in my GTab [I understand the request, but shouldnt you be asking on a WDTV forum for an Android app? What does it have to do with the Tab? ] [wait, there's more; ] to my TV or stereo. Is this possible?"
From my understading this has nothing to do with the GTab; you are asking for WDTV device remote control support under Android OS (and much more, for that matter).
Go ask WD. And your AV receiver, TV, and stereo manufacturer as well...
wewewi999 said:
.. What are you hoping to do exactly? Your post is so unclear!
View content from your PC on your tablet?
View content from your WDTV on your tablet?
View content from your tablet on your WDTV?
Control your WDTV over your tablet?
"In a perfect world, I should be able to fire up my AV receiver [are you talking of another device, like a Satellite Receiver or Cable descrambler?], select the input assigned to WDTV box and send a stream [from the WDTV?] that I can view or listen to in my GTab [I understand the request, but shouldnt you be asking on a WDTV forum for an Android app? What does it have to do with the Tab? ] [wait, there's more; ] to my TV or stereo. Is this possible?"
From my understading this has nothing to do with the GTab; you are asking for WDTV device remote control support under Android OS (and much more, for that matter).
Go ask WD. And your AV receiver, TV, and stereo manufacturer as well...
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There are Android remotes that will control the WDTV. There are more functional apps such as ZappoTV that allow you to use an Android or IOS device to send music or video to the WDTV. The problem is that none of these apps have their own way of viewing the WDTV UI so the TV screen has to do the job. I just want more.
What I really want to be able to do is to somehow send whatever I can view or listen to on my Tab, to my WDTV and eventually to my stereo or TV. This includes the output from apps such as Pandora or Audiogalaxy. If I can get whatever Pandora is playing on my Tab to the WDTV, I can listen to or view it on my AV system. Basically, I am trying to eliminate the WDTV UI as a middleman and just send stuff from the Tab.
I am not a dev and have no idea how to write code but the logical side of my brain says that this should be possible. Hopefully there are some smart folks out there who can figure out how to get it done
Bob
Ok then no, its not possible.
What you are asking for is a wireless HDMI-like output.
..How do you think all these devices would get the feed, anyway? Can your TV/stereo stream stuff over wifi directly (UPnP/DLNA)? If it does, then yes, using a UPnP/DLNA server app, you can share content from the Tab to that device.
But you'll never be able to share/see an app output (well.. anything any Tab displays) without HDMI.
I think what you need is a simpler solution. Buy a good bluetooth audio receiver and connects it to your Stereo/pre-amp linein. Then connect your tablet/mobilephone to the BT receiver. Open up your favorite apps, e.g. Tunein, 2Player (can play music stored on your NAS or network drives).
I myself use Logitech BT audio receiver. it sounds great.
wewewi999 said:
... using a UPnP/DLNA server app, you can share content from the Tab to that device.
But you'll never be able to share/see an app output (well.. anything any Tab displays) without HDMI.
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Interesting. I've used Allshare and other DLNA apps to pull content from the network onto my Tab. I've never tried pulling anything OFF my tab to play on a TV or other Computer.
I'm pretty sure the WDTV can use DLNA to pull media from the network. I'm going to have to see if I can pull media from my Tab with it.
Your correct though that its a pull action and you can't PUSH media out to a device for viewing. At least as far as I know.
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Your correct though that its a pull action and you can't PUSH media out to a device for viewing. At least as far as I know.
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If you are talking about DLNA, a DMR (Digital Media Renderer) does exactly that. It receives "pushed" media from a DMC and plays it. The DMC itself gets the media from a DMS.
The tablet would be the DMC in that scenario. But I have no idea if the WDTV can act as a DMR or if it is just a DMP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Living_Network_Alliance
Home Network Devices:
Digital Media Server (DMS): These devices store content and make it available to networked digital media players (DMP) and digital media renderers (DMR). Examples include PCs and network-attached storage (NAS) devices.
Digital Media Player (DMP): These devices find content on digital media servers (DMS) and provide playback and rendering capabilities. Examples include TVs, stereos and home theaters, wireless monitors and game consoles.
Digital Media Renderer (DMR): These devices play content received from a digital media controller (DMC), which will find content from a digital media server (DMS). Examples include TVs, audio/video receivers, video displays and remote speakers for music.
Note: it is possible for a single device (e.g. TV, A/V receiver, etc) to function both as a DMR (receives "pushed" content from DMS) and DMP ("pulls" content from DMS)
Digital Media Controller (DMC): These devices find content on digital media servers (DMS) and play it on digital media renderers (DMR). Examples include Internet tablets, Wi-Fi enabled digital cameras and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
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gokpog said:
If you are talking about DLNA, a DMR (Digital Media Renderer) does exactly that. It receives "pushed" media from a DMC and plays it. The DMC itself gets the media from a DMS.
The tablet would be the DMC in that scenario. But I have no idea if the WDTV can act as a DMR or if it is just a DMP.
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Wow thats a great bit of interesting information. Thanks for digging that up.! :good:
Something with an interface similar to media portal, media center, xbmc, ect. Would love to have this all on my home network
XBMC
frigidazzi said:
Something with an interface similar to media portal, media center, xbmc, ect. Would love to have this all on my home network
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XBMC has source code out that can be compiled and run on the Nexus 7. Initial reports are positive, but it's certainly not a polished release.
Here's the relevant thread for XBMC + Nexus
Alternately, Plex for Android shows up as being compatible with the Nexus 7, though I've not seen any reports on how well it's working. Plex is only really useful if you've got a Plex server running somewhere, though. XBMC can be used as a standalone media center experience as far as I know, and can also scrape network shares if you have those set up.
I am hoping to build a media server to replace my simple setup. Now I have an external hardbdrive connected to my Samsung smart TV which plays my movies. Now I want a media player connected to my Tv with the hard drive that I can access remotely and can update over the net (add movies to it)
Can the pi2 do this?
nickmax1 said:
I am hoping to build a media server to replace my simple setup. Now I have an external hardbdrive connected to my Samsung smart TV which plays my movies. Now I want a media player connected to my Tv with the hard drive that I can access remotely and can update over the net (add movies to it)
Can the pi2 do this?
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I had an entire media server running with a Raspberry Pi 1 model B, that also ran a few python scripts. I'm sure the Pi 2 has more than enough horsepower for your needs.
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I had an entire media server running with a Raspberry Pi 1 model B, that also ran a few python scripts. I'm sure the Pi 2 has more than enough horsepower for your needs.
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really, thats impressive. Did you follow a guide to do that? Could the pi do any transcoding?
Yes and no...........
I used a lot of tutorials, and parts of tutorials, and just playing around.
It was the results of my playing around in linux. The solution actually consisted of more than just the server end. I had the Pi sharing a 3TB hdd via NFS, and at the time I had another Pi connected to my TV running Kodi media center. (I've since moved to an old Quad core which works much better, for obvious reasons.)
The Original Model B wasn't powerful enough to do any transcoding and I don't have any experience with the Pi 2 yet, but I had a lot going on in that lil box and it served me fairly well. I had 2 python scripts running to collect and sort media, an SQL db to sync multiple instances of Kodi, a newsbin client, torrent client, and web server running off the same Pi.
I only encountered a few issues and could never get WAN streaming working, but I suspect that may have been something with my router configs.
I simply sat down and thought up what I wanted my server to do, and started hitting the web to find ways to do it, one feature at a time.
Here is a video showing how to configure an IR remote to work with OSMC for Raspberry Pi
It includes recording a custom lircd.conf file which contains the keymappings
All the commands are mentioned in the video description in YouTube.
Hardware needed
1. Raspberry Pi
2. IR Receiver such as TSOP38238
3. Any IR Remote