2009-04-25, 22:21
First, I see that people are either using, or trying to use mediaportal and xbmc. As far as I can tell mediaportal is, basically, a program for dealing with live tv. Am I right on this?
What I am trying to do is to build a machine that will download, and then play - downloaded movies, tv shows, etc. I am currently not interested in dealing with live tv although I have done that in the past and this machine will have that capacity (I already have the card). Given what is available for download I tend to believe that downloading is just easier and requires less fancy hardware. My machine has an amd x2 cpu and motherboard w/2gb of memory. I am going to use a radeon hd 3470 display card and am going to hook into a denon avr-788 receiver. I have a 1080p tv. Oh - I am going to use windows xp (I am also a ubuntu user and am familiar with Linux. I decided on windows to make sure I have full support for the display card).
I do wonder if I am going to be able to play everything on my tv but assume that given all the conversion, and scaling power, between the display card, xbmc and the receiver I should be ok. I also suspect that I should have probably asked more questions going in but, now, I gotta live with what I got. I would also be interested whether xbmc has the facility to control video output (or even if that is necessary).
I would appreciate is ANY thoughts on all of this as its kindofa new deal for me.
Thank you......
What I am trying to do is to build a machine that will download, and then play - downloaded movies, tv shows, etc. I am currently not interested in dealing with live tv although I have done that in the past and this machine will have that capacity (I already have the card). Given what is available for download I tend to believe that downloading is just easier and requires less fancy hardware. My machine has an amd x2 cpu and motherboard w/2gb of memory. I am going to use a radeon hd 3470 display card and am going to hook into a denon avr-788 receiver. I have a 1080p tv. Oh - I am going to use windows xp (I am also a ubuntu user and am familiar with Linux. I decided on windows to make sure I have full support for the display card).
I do wonder if I am going to be able to play everything on my tv but assume that given all the conversion, and scaling power, between the display card, xbmc and the receiver I should be ok. I also suspect that I should have probably asked more questions going in but, now, I gotta live with what I got. I would also be interested whether xbmc has the facility to control video output (or even if that is necessary).
I would appreciate is ANY thoughts on all of this as its kindofa new deal for me.
Thank you......
