Rasberry PI help media server

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I won the raspberry PI from mybb and it will be my first one ever used, So I was thinking of what I can do with it and It came down to little media server.


But I need a bit of help, I have no clue what to load on it. My idea is to connect the sonyTV> HDMI> RASPI > NETWORKHUB > PC windows 7 shared files? Is this possible.

I don't have a router as I don't have uncapped internet so streaming you tube and Netflix is not really what I want. All my media files is on my pc already so don't really want to buy a drive just to connect to the PI itself.


I want something like this ?
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I googled and found a lot of media software but I have no clue what will be able to read of a windows shared driver or folder
 
OSMC

Once that is loaded, configure your movie file list, basically just add an smb location pointing to your PC where the video files are stored....
 
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You are going to get a lot of suggestions, but here is mine.

Load OpenElec on the Pi.
Share a folder on your Windows 7 PC with the content that you want to play.
Add the share to OpenElec / Kodi and have fun.
Internet access would be advisable though so that Kodi can download the data for your media (unless you already have an app that has sorted it for you i.e. posters, episode info ect).
 
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dualmeister said:
You are going to get a lot of suggestions, but here is mine.

Load OpenElec on the Pi.
Share a folder on your Windows 7 PC with the content that you want to play.
Add the share to OpenElec / Kodi and have fun.
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Been the openelec route, the OSMC installer makes it so easy to load kodi its a no brainer...

BTW is it a Pi2 or Pi3 DTBA? Not that I can say I have seen that much of a difference in performance between the two, but wireless on the 3 is nifty...
 
Thanks guys :) going to mess around with it!
 
SirFooK'nG said:
Been the openelec route, the OSMC installer makes it so easy to load kodi its a no brainer...

BTW is it a Pi2 or Pi3 DTBA? Not that I can say I have seen that much of a difference in performance between the two, but wireless on the 3 is nifty...
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I have no clue hey. Will have to wait and see when it arrives
 
As soon as I get it I will load both and test both :) thanks for the suggestions
 
DTBA said:
But I need a bit of help, I have no clue what to load on it. My idea is to connect the sonyTV> HDMI> RASPI > NETWORKHUB > PC windows 7 shared files? Is this possible.
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If you want to play around with different options NOOBS is a great starting point. Will allow you to install most of the popular options and you only have to learn to configure the SD Card for NOOBS.

NOOBS allows installation of the following with just the single tool.

Raspbian
Pidora
OpenELEC
OSMC
RISC OS
Arch Linux


raind33r said:
RasPi is not ideal though. It's a bit under powered.
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Under powered for what? Had one of the original Pi and yeah agreed that was not quite good enough for anything above 720 but the Pi 3s are more than powerful enough for a basic media center. Easily renders 1080...
 
DTBA said:
At the moment I am still waiting to see when it arrives hey
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Can't see it being a 1 series. But 2 and 3 will do fine for a media center. Not sure how series 2 handles 1080, I haven't seen one in action but if I remember from when it was launched it should theoretically be able to handle it...
 
kripstoe said:
If HEVC/H.265, then yes. If not, then no.
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From my understanding the Pi 3 copes pretty well with H.265.

Is this not the case? Only reason I ordered one was because I read it does. And I only placed my order yesterday :(

Edit : The article I read before biting the bullet and ordering - https://osmc.tv/2016/02/raspberry-pi-3-announced-with-osmc-support/


The new quad core CPU will bring smoother GUI performance. There have also been recent improvements to H265 decoding. While not hardware accelerated on the Raspberry Pi, the new CPU will enable more H265 content to be played back on the Raspberry Pi than before.
 
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