[masseck]

hey people,
I m new to XBMC and media streaming over network. Some information and help would be appreciated.

Want to use my HP N40L MicroServer as backend for DVB-S2.

Ubuntu 12.04 64 runs perfectly with it, at least for the purpose as smb network storage.

It has a TBS 6981 dual tuner card.

The driver is compiled and everything is recognized.

Just to be sure that the card is not damaged I installed Windows 7 x64 and DVBViewer Pro works great.

ok back to topic,

what backend do you suggest ?

I think about using tvheadend, or do you have better ideas ?

Clients will be Raspberry Pi w/ OpenElec or Raspbmc (again, any suggestions ?)
and Windows 7

Finally I didnt even decide the server os ... but Ubuntu 12.04 64 or Debian Wheezy 64 seem to be the best for it.



thank you

masseck

[Maximo]

Hello and welcome,

I'm running MediaPortal's TV Server as my backend with a number of RPI's running RaspBMC. It all works very well for me, easy enough to setup and seems to be very stable.

Cheers

Garry

[masseck]

@ maximo
I also tried MediaPortal on WindowsServer 2012, but I could not install MediaPortal on it, problem with NetFramework 3 (officially not supported and I m no friend of dirty hacks)

So linux-based os is preferred.

Finally I set up tvheadend on my 12.04 x64 Ubuntu with Adam Sutton´s ppa.

XBMC 12 RC and XBMC 12 RELEASE both run very smooth on Windows 7 x64 even the 1080p channels.

On the RasPi I first tried OpenELEC ... the channel list is recognized but no video or even audio ... don t know why.

Now I will use RaspBMC on it ... feedback later