Server transcoding application running on a PC?
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Rand Al Thor Wrote:You can easily build a barebones computer for each tv with the sole purpose of running xbmc. It would not have to be very expensive if that is all you are using it for. Then you could have a server to feed all of your music, movies, music etc. That is what I have done. The search button is your friend. You could have easily answered this question for yourself.

Don't think this is what he is after. He wants basically a "dumb terminal" at each TV with the more powerful back-end machine doing the decoding etc. top stream to the TVs. Not sure how that really works TBH short of something akin to VNC and agree a box at each system would be better. Maybe figure out a way to just have a server and PXE boot the other machines from the server? this would allow you to only have to maintain ONE copy of the software - would be nice for many TVs I'd think.
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No, XBMC does not support any type of 'thin-client' setup, all clients need to be a 'fat-client' (thick = full computers), ...you could however have one server that shares all media files, see => http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=NAS
and
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Media_Sources
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Types_of_Media_Sources
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Adding_Media_Sources
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