GrahamW
Standard Member
I have 2 WMC in the house, all with HD dual tuners and the guide, updates, restarts required, missing recordings is doing my head in.
I need to add another HTPC to the mix for a new room that will be fed into my amp and shared between TV and projector. I have a Qnap so I could centralise the storage. All machines are connected over gigabit, so streaming shouldn't be an issue.
Any ideas on what to do to centralise all the recordings and to record live TV, then to view on any client side? Should I look at a Chromecast (have one to play with), AppleTV (have 2 of these) or install an App on my Samsung Smart TVs or head down the Raspberry PI XMBC route as a client front end.
The main thing keeping me with WMC is that you can watch programmes on 1.5x with the audio, so you can get through box sets quite quickly etc. Also discovered that VLC can play quicker too on certain forms.
Also needs to have the WAF and easy to use. I've had a play with MediaPortal but can never seem to get a good setup, especially with Live TV.
TIA
I need to add another HTPC to the mix for a new room that will be fed into my amp and shared between TV and projector. I have a Qnap so I could centralise the storage. All machines are connected over gigabit, so streaming shouldn't be an issue.
Any ideas on what to do to centralise all the recordings and to record live TV, then to view on any client side? Should I look at a Chromecast (have one to play with), AppleTV (have 2 of these) or install an App on my Samsung Smart TVs or head down the Raspberry PI XMBC route as a client front end.
The main thing keeping me with WMC is that you can watch programmes on 1.5x with the audio, so you can get through box sets quite quickly etc. Also discovered that VLC can play quicker too on certain forms.
Also needs to have the WAF and easy to use. I've had a play with MediaPortal but can never seem to get a good setup, especially with Live TV.
TIA