MCE into the Closet?
on 02.13.06, 07:30am in media • comments (4)
Now that I’ve hooked up the 360 into the theater room, I’ve been really thinking about just shoving the Media Center that used to drive the theater into the closet and essentially turn it into a Media Center Server. Liz needs an instruction sheet to use the old setup (poor wife acceptability factor on MCE), and I’m primarily using it as a network DVD changer. We rarely watch TV on it.
I’d really like to start to eliminate all these computers around the house and get back to having a server, a laptop or two and a few "exploded pc" devices around the house.
Dave Kekish (February 13, 2006 @ 9:56 am)
How do you get the networked dvd’s to work. Its one of the main things I’d like to do with my 360. Keep my kids of playing with the disks kind of thing.
From my attempting to do just that, the 360 won’t stream a dvd. I’m guessing its due to the fact that its a remote desktop interface into the MCE PC.
Bryan Holland (February 13, 2006 @ 11:49 am)
We are doing just that. I rebuilt our Media Center over Christmas break and put it into a server chassis with a big RAID for storage (1+ Terabytes). It has 2 DishNetwork receivers hooked up for TV viewing/recording and all of our music. It will go into the closet in the basement as soon as we are sure everything is working properly.
Currently we have 2 XBOXes with Media Center Extenders for remote TV viewing. We plan on purchasing an XBOX 360 sometime soon for our 3rd TV. The only problem with the whole setup is that Media Center is hard on us channel surfers.
Steve (February 13, 2006 @ 12:00 pm)
Networked DVD’s dont work directly on the 360 extender. You need to do this: http://www.smorty71.com/2006/02/watch-ripped-dvds-on-your-xbox-360.html
Steve (February 13, 2006 @ 12:01 pm)
Bryan - since I dont use the MCE for TV, the solution sounds good. I’m going to convert my terrabyte RAID server into an MCE, and call it good.