2015-02-25, 23:20
(2015-02-25, 22:38)nickr Wrote: Don't be spooked by the term 'server'.
It is simply a computer with lots of hard drive space and connected to your network.
Serving (think 'sharing' if you like) files to other computers is something that computers do all the time. Your server simply uses a known network protocol to serve files to the kodi machines. The most popular network protocols for a home LAN are SMB and NFS. SMB is probably easiest to set up and is the same protocol windows has used for years. If you right click a folder in windows and choose 'share' you are sharing over SMB or it's successor CIFS (you really don't need to worry at this point about the difference between SMB and CIFS).
Thanks nickr. That does simplify the concept a little for me.
So the server would be a Windows PC and you would need to have downloaded the file 4K file in order to encode it via HandBrake software on the Windows Server? Or do you run Kodi on Windows and when it needs to encode or decode it calls HandBrake?
Thanks.