HP ProLiant MicroServer

Any of these combinations capable of PVR? I'm missing my Tivo - NOTHING worked quite like Tivo WRT UI. I believe Ahead (the Nero people) did a software Tivo at some point, but I doubt it was any good since no-one talks about it....
 
is anybody running windows 8 pro 64 bit?? opportunity to buy but not sure if it will run on original configuration of server.
 
IPX-SPX said:
Any of these combinations capable of PVR? I'm missing my Tivo - NOTHING worked quite like Tivo WRT UI. I believe Ahead (the Nero people) did a software Tivo at some point, but I doubt it was any good since no-one talks about it....
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Well, openelec 3 has PVR functionality built in, you just need a compatible TV tuner. No idea what one of those is though, and I doubt it would be dstv compatible anyway?
 
stevovo said:
This volume normalization, is it part of xbmc or windows? And if so where do I activate it?
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Edit: you may want to change the volume in the "levels" tab
(my original volume made the sound distort... I think I just set the levels a bit lower, and it fixed it)
 
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Hi guys, i needs some help. so i am finally going to purchase my first HP Micro server mainly to host my media (movies, music, pictures). So i know i will need a GPU with HDMI connected to the TV for sound and Picture.
what else will i need to get started. What OS is free and best to use for a noob like me. I'm gonna run XMBC but i assume i need an underlying OS to run this on?

Any links to posts where this has been discussed will be appreciated.

Thanks
 
Sinbad said:
Well, openelec 3 has PVR functionality built in, you just need a compatible TV tuner. No idea what one of those is though, and I doubt it would be dstv compatible anyway?
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Why would they only allow recording streams from a tuner... What about AV in or hdmi input? The Tivo recorded straight from any 'set top box' via specified input... It also had IR eye to auto change channels to record on schedule and downloaded from online TV xml DB for DSTV schedules.
 
Deanoblado said:
Hi guys, i needs some help. so i am finally going to purchase my first HP Micro server mainly to host my media (movies, music, pictures). So i know i will need a GPU with HDMI connected to the TV for sound and Picture.
what else will i need to get started. What OS is free and best to use for a noob like me. I'm gonna run XMBC but i assume i need an underlying OS to run this on?

Any links to posts where this has been discussed will be appreciated.

Thanks
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Point of View GT610 is perfect for it, just make sure you get the low profile bracket as well

As for OS Ubuntu is free and pretty good, but more useful if you wanna run programs like sickbeard or Sabnzbd
 
IPX-SPX said:
Why would they only allow recording streams from a tuner... What about AV in or hdmi input? The Tivo recorded straight from any 'set top box' via specified input... It also had IR eye to auto change channels to record on schedule and downloaded from online TV xml DB for DSTV schedules.
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None of that really means anything in the South African context to the best of my knowledge. No more XML guides for DSTV. And the HDMI aspect is encoded iirc - not 100% sure about this. And no digital tv yet. So Tivo, XBMC or whatever other PVR you wish to use is pretty much useless as far as I can tell...
 
Nduimiso said:
Point of View GT610 is perfect for it, just make sure you get the low profile bracket as well

As for OS Ubuntu is free and pretty good, but more useful if you wanna run programs like sickbeard or Sabnzbd
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Thanks, I've been doing some reading on this site and seems everyone is going for the GT520. is there a reason for this?
Also i see openelec comes with xmbc installed already. will this be a better option then Ubuntu?
 
Nduimiso said:
Point of View GT610 is perfect for it, just make sure you get the low profile bracket as well

As for OS Ubuntu is free and pretty good, but more useful if you wanna run programs like sickbeard or Sabnzbd
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I'd recommend OpenELEC... much easier and more of an "appliance feel"

That being said, I'm going for windows so I can have Hyperspin running on my 'Box as well :)
 
Deanoblado said:
Thanks, I've been doing some reading on this site and seems everyone is going for the GT520. is there a reason for this?
Also i see openelec comes with xmbc installed already. will this be a better option then Ubuntu?
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I have the GT520 and the only issue I have is not being able to enable crossfading between tracks. The setup doesn't like it for some reason. I also use Openelec. If all you intend to use the machine for is as a media centre, then openelec is your best bet. It is XBMC only. It loads up straight into XBMC and anything you want to do must be done from within XBMC. For all intents and purposes, there is nothing else the operating system can do. I like it for a main media centre...
 
DJ... said:
I have the GT520 and the only issue I have is not being able to enable crossfading between tracks. The setup doesn't like it for some reason. I also use Openelec. If all you intend to use the machine for is as a media centre, then openelec is your best bet. It is XBMC only. It loads up straight into XBMC and anything you want to do must be done from within XBMC. For all intents and purposes, there is nothing else the operating system can do. I like it for a main media centre...
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doe it contain drivers for the GT610 or do i need to stick with GT520? yes for now i want to experiment only as media center so only XMBC will be fine. Will i be able to get full HD and Dolby 5.1 MA and DTS MA with this card?
 
Deanoblado said:
doe it contain drivers for the GT610 or do i need to stick with GT520? yes for now i want to experiment only as media center so only XMBC will be fine. Will i be able to get full HD and Dolby 5.1 MA and DTS MA with this card?
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The generic openelec build contains more drivers than the other builds. I can't answer anything relating to the 610 as I simply don't know, but I'd be very surprised if openelec didn't support it. With the gt520 you get full hd and Dolby, DTS etc. It will pass the signal through directly to the amp if you specify as well - even better...
 
DJ... said:
None of that really means anything in the South African context to the best of my knowledge. No more XML guides for DSTV. And the HDMI aspect is encoded iirc - not 100% sure about this. And no digital tv yet. So Tivo, XBMC or whatever other PVR you wish to use is pretty much useless as far as I can tell...
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Aha, thanks for the heads up... indeed it would be pointless without some sort of TV guide web service...
 
I'm also using the GT520 and very happy with the video quality. Plays a 20Gb bluray rip without breaking a sweat, using the standard power supply. The only part I couldn't get working is the dts 5.1 sound through HDMI. OpenElec are about to release version 3, which has XBMC 12 built in. This is the most anticiapted release in a long time as they've done alot to improve the sound.currently I default to 2.1 sound through my sound bar. I'm a total Linux noob but openelec is perfect for me.
 
Deanoblado said:
Thanks, I've been doing some reading on this site and seems everyone is going for the GT520. is there a reason for this?
Also i see openelec comes with xmbc installed already. will this be a better option then Ubuntu?
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AFAIK 610 = 520, but I say 610 since esquire doesn't stock the 520 and I know the 610 fits perfectly. Of course other places may still stock the 520 but I don't think there is any difference, just stay away from ATI, their driver support for linux is awful, they would be fine on a windows machine but not linux.
Yeah I think Openlec will be better for what you want, I've just never tried it.
 
Nduimiso said:
AFAIK 610 = 520, but I say 610 since esquire doesn't stock the 520 and I know the 610 fits perfectly. Of course other places may still stock the 520 but I don't think there is any difference, just stay away from ATI, their driver support for linux is awful, they would be fine on a windows machine but not linux.
Yeah I think Openlec will be better for what you want, I've just never tried it.
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Openelec worked fine with an ATI card the last time I checked
 
I have an ATI card. And while they do work fine with openelec, i would still suggest you go for Nvidia. It costs about 30% extra when I was buying which is probably about R150 more.

I had endless issues on Ubuntu and XBMCbuntu if you ever decide to go that route in future. Many a saturday were squandered :cry:
 
On openelec + GT520

DTS 5.1 has always worked for me over HDMI. Pre Frodo 12 versions just needed some manual tweaking to get menu sounds, but that works fine out the box now.
OE 2.99.1 (frodo) supports TrueHD as well as lossless PCM multi channel audio over HDMI.

It's super easy and free. Just add this repo before you add the sabnzbd-suite - it's a much more up-to-date fork than the Openelec repo:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/42265484/re...6/repository.lsellens/repository.lsellens.zip

Crossfading did not work as there was no audio mixer device compiled into the openelec kernel. Not sure if that's been added yet, but I imagine it has given the massive audio improvements.
 
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