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2013-03-01, 23:26
(This post was last modified: 2013-03-01, 23:29 by mkvelidadon.)
It may be just a wacky idea, but would it be possible to play the media in my home PC over the Internet? I mean, I know it can be accessed locally, but say I take my XBMC system to work, and would like to access the media from my home PC there. Would it be possible? What would I need?
Thanks.
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vpn would be one way to do it. As long as your internet speed is high enough for the full stream
for transcoding, you can try either plex or use xbmc's upnp server with bubbleupnp as it has a transcoding server. With either option, your client would not be xbmc.
xbmc does not have transcoding functionality
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2013-03-04, 16:04
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I use Subsonic on my server and the Subsonic add on for XBMC with modified higher bitrates. It's very good. I can watch all my content via XBMC on my phone, work PC, crappy tablet.
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The bottleneck here is your internet connection's upstream. The upstream is still puny on most connections (certainly over my cable modem), and all of those HD videos in your collection are too high bitrate to upload in real time. So, in order to stream to your devices outside the home, you'll have to transcode all your 1080p MKVs in real-time to something with a much lower bitrate. I've tried using AirVideo to do this, but unless I set the transcode quality really low on my server, the videos would chug during playback. Your mileage may vary, but there's a pretty good practical reason that adding this feature hasn't been high on the XBMC devs' priority list.
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Ok the Subsonic addon is really slick and I just got it going from my work computer to browse and play my home collection!
One thing I am wondering though, is there anyway to have the movie and tv shows from Subsonic addon integrated into the actual movie and tv show libraries? One of the most fun things about XBMC has always been the overall presentation of your library with all the art and metadata. I keep all of my art and nfo files in the same folders as my videos, so in theory it might not be that far off to have a tighter integration ... however I don't think by default that subsonic presents the nfo files (it does show at least some of the art, usually the movie poster).
It would be really great to be able to take my laptop with me on trips and still be able to browse my whole library in all it's fanart covered glory, but leverage the power of Subsonic transcoding to stream over the Internet.
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It's integrated in Quartz/Reloaded skins.
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You're welcome.
If you're like me and have a hard time leaving XBMC but want centralized library with remote access - than this is probably the best solution.
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I use an app on my ipad called Airplayit to stream content from my server to my ipad so far I have only tested this over wifi so cannot say for sure if it can be done over the internet via normal internet connection or something like 3G
