f0rge
12-29-2008, 07:07 AM
Hey all it's been a while since i've been around, work has been obscene as of late.
Anyway i thought I'd let you in on my new little setup for streaming music and more importantly movies to my home theater via some network storage.
Basically it revolves around two things, the storage and the streamer itself.
For the storage i picked up a HP Mediavault MV2120, then crammed 2TB (2000 gigs) worth of hard drives in it. I picked this up because it has a DLNA media server built into it, that way i didnt have to make my own, and it could operate independent of a computer.
I hooked it up to my network wired to my router with gigabit ethernet, then transferred all my music and movies and tv shows off my computer and onto the Mediavault.
My router is right beside my main HT, so i ran more wired ethernet to my PS3 and Xbox360 which i was going to be using for my media streamers. Both support many video codecs including DIVX and XVID.
Then the moment of truth, i booted up my PS3 and browsed over to the "Videos" and there it was, my Mediavault, so i clicked on it, browsed to a movie i wanted to watch and it played, all without a computer.
In fact it all worked so well that i bought a second Xbox360 for the bedroom and I use wireless G to stream videos there.
The same principal applies to music, I can play music via my 360 and PS3 but instead i use a couple of Apple Airport Express things to get music to my main stereo as well as the bedroom. I need to use a laptop for this, but I found that browsing through that many files (35 gigs of mp3s) was too cumbersome on either the 360 or PS3.
For safety I protect the Mediavault (and router and modem) with a UPS.
Now the hard part is going to be converting all my physical media to digital. Of course when I want to be blown away I still have a growing library of Blurays to satisfy my needs.
Anyway i thought I'd let you in on my new little setup for streaming music and more importantly movies to my home theater via some network storage.
Basically it revolves around two things, the storage and the streamer itself.
For the storage i picked up a HP Mediavault MV2120, then crammed 2TB (2000 gigs) worth of hard drives in it. I picked this up because it has a DLNA media server built into it, that way i didnt have to make my own, and it could operate independent of a computer.
I hooked it up to my network wired to my router with gigabit ethernet, then transferred all my music and movies and tv shows off my computer and onto the Mediavault.
My router is right beside my main HT, so i ran more wired ethernet to my PS3 and Xbox360 which i was going to be using for my media streamers. Both support many video codecs including DIVX and XVID.
Then the moment of truth, i booted up my PS3 and browsed over to the "Videos" and there it was, my Mediavault, so i clicked on it, browsed to a movie i wanted to watch and it played, all without a computer.
In fact it all worked so well that i bought a second Xbox360 for the bedroom and I use wireless G to stream videos there.
The same principal applies to music, I can play music via my 360 and PS3 but instead i use a couple of Apple Airport Express things to get music to my main stereo as well as the bedroom. I need to use a laptop for this, but I found that browsing through that many files (35 gigs of mp3s) was too cumbersome on either the 360 or PS3.
For safety I protect the Mediavault (and router and modem) with a UPS.
Now the hard part is going to be converting all my physical media to digital. Of course when I want to be blown away I still have a growing library of Blurays to satisfy my needs.