2015-02-25, 22:38
(2015-02-25, 21:13)mpmp Wrote:Don't be spooked by the term 'server'.(2015-02-25, 20:47)nickr Wrote: No you wouldn't need openelec on your server. Can't imagine why you think that. In this case the server would rip and encode your BluRays, and serve them over SMB or NFS to your openelec clients.
I am trying to figure out how this server is going to work.
Handbrake supports Windows, Mac & Ubuntu. The best platform to run Kodi I have been told is on the Chromebox with openelec.
Never having dealt with a server before I am not sure what is involved.
Thanks.
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).