Finally got my Mediaportal up!

by Ronner • 18 Oct 2007, 22:21 • Journals
After quiet some building, testing, tweaking etc.etc. I FINALLY got my mediaportal fully up and running!!!

Movies, Music, Digital TV, TV-Recording/Pausing/Rewinding, TV Series organising plugin, Pictures, Music Video on demand etc.etc.etc...

All my media needs in 1 box!

image: LC20m

Full specs:

Silverstone LC20M Case (has VFD front display, see image (sweet case :) )
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
AMD 64 x2 4200+
Asus 7200GS 128mb (fanless vidcard)
2x 512Mb Corsair Twinx
1x 200Gb Maxtor Sata2 (OS)
3x 500Gb Seagate Sata2 in Raid5 (oneTerrabyte effective space for data)
FloppyDTV DVB-C Digital Cable Receiver card
Alphacrypt CAM (for decrypting scrambled TV Channels)
NEC DVD-Drive/Burner
Mediaportal 0.2.3.2 RC3
Mediaportal's TV Server TVe3
And some needed codecs for viewing h264 digital tv streams etc..
Hooked with DVI->HDMI to a 42" LG Plasma and JVC 5.1 Receiver (optical cable)


And better yet, I can install mediaportal on any pc and use the TV-Server TVe3 in the living room as source for live digital TV over my local network :)

/me is happy..

*flame on
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r&bster 18 Oct 2007, 23:22
*jealous is :{
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slajdan 18 Oct 2007, 23:23
It's so nice except the NEC DVD-Drive/Burner.
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Ronner 18 Oct 2007, 23:25
yah.. I found out that it's a bit loud and crap and the front of it isn't even really black but more so a dark dark grey.. But heck, i barely use that anyway (i keep dvd's on harddisk) and it's not visible. It's behind one of those flaps that you push to open.
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duNzy 18 Oct 2007, 23:24
yes , you are cool , tbh you are
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nunejro 18 Oct 2007, 23:26
drum&base :XD
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Mamalukes 18 Oct 2007, 23:26
that would be 1 reason to become gay and marry you
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Ronner 18 Oct 2007, 23:28
you could've just said "can you addopt me?" but djeeez dude :P
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ScarZy 18 Oct 2007, 23:32
Send to me tomorrow for the sum of £5 thx ;)
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hannes-` 18 Oct 2007, 23:40
why would you need 200 gig for a system?

Tried using unix for such stuff? Built myself a machine like that (also using it as a fileserver) with a debian based sys. Runs perfectly smooth.

wish u all the fun u need with that masterpiece :)
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Ronner 18 Oct 2007, 23:41
200 gig? that drive is only for OS and tv-timeshifting and recording. The 3x500 gig in raid 5 is for storing media data.. tv-series, dvd's, images, music.. etc..etc.. Trust me, I need that space :)
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hannes-` 18 Oct 2007, 23:43
thats what i was wondering. why 200 gig for THE system (my bad).

1 tb wouldnt be enough for my server :(

attending 3 tb @ end of the month. Stargate atlantis HD <333
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Ronner 18 Oct 2007, 23:50
hehe.. I know, you can never have enough space. The 1gb is already more than half-full :S
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Fasolka 18 Oct 2007, 23:43
looks nice. Black colour is so exclusive :>
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Prydz 18 Oct 2007, 23:45
congratz
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triflip 19 Oct 2007, 00:27
nice nice, but I would have taken 2 gigs RAM just to be sure :>
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Ronner 19 Oct 2007, 01:49
nah.. I had some hardware lying around (namely the mobo, cpu and ram) plus 1gb is more than enough for a mediacenter
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triflip 19 Oct 2007, 10:48
if ur recording a show and watching one at the same time 2 gigs would be nice.

but if you just record or watch and not at the same time 1 gig should be enough.
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Ronner 19 Oct 2007, 13:33
doesnt matter. Recording is Harddisk I/O only and watching is merely Vidcard and CPU related. Trust me, memory above 1gb is useless for a mediacenter machine.
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Superboyy 19 Oct 2007, 01:23
seems overrated
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ETNiES 19 Oct 2007, 01:54
noob Q : What exactly is the point of it? like whats it do? Stores all your media but you say you can watch live digital tv to? confused
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Ronner 19 Oct 2007, 13:35
Eehm.. It's simply one machine that handles everything. Watching tv, watching dvd's, watching downloaded series/movies, listening to music on disk on radio or on webstreams, watching your pictures, recording tv to be watched later, pause or rewind tv while watching it live.. etc..etc..

Just take a look at some screenshots here, you'll get the idea.
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