issue124:coin_kodi
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| issue124:coin_kodi [2017/09/04 07:52] – d52fr | issue124:coin_kodi [2017/09/04 17:15] (Version actuelle) – andre_domenech | ||
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| MythTV est un logiciel formidable, mais quand notre fournisseur a commencé à parler d'un passage de l' | MythTV est un logiciel formidable, mais quand notre fournisseur a commencé à parler d'un passage de l' | ||
| - | À peu près à cet époque-là, | + | À peu près à cette époque-là, |
| **Our XBMC/KODI setup started on the same machine we ran MythTV on, an old Athlon XP-based system with a 1TB hard drive. The Athlon desktop worked, but it drew lots of power and lacked SSE2 CPU instructions. Video playback on systems with SSE2 instructions was much better than on the Athlon, which struggled sometimes even with standard DVD video. We had a solution to solve both the power and playback problems: a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook. The netbook had only a 250GB hard drive, but adding the 1TB desktop drive was a simple matter of attaching it via an external drive cage. Initially we installed XBMC via XBMCbuntu, a customized Lubuntu install which booted directly to XBMC. We added remote control support using a standard Microsoft-compatible remote control and USB receiver, and the LIRC software package. | **Our XBMC/KODI setup started on the same machine we ran MythTV on, an old Athlon XP-based system with a 1TB hard drive. The Athlon desktop worked, but it drew lots of power and lacked SSE2 CPU instructions. Video playback on systems with SSE2 instructions was much better than on the Athlon, which struggled sometimes even with standard DVD video. We had a solution to solve both the power and playback problems: a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook. The netbook had only a 250GB hard drive, but adding the 1TB desktop drive was a simple matter of attaching it via an external drive cage. Initially we installed XBMC via XBMCbuntu, a customized Lubuntu install which booted directly to XBMC. We added remote control support using a standard Microsoft-compatible remote control and USB receiver, and the LIRC software package. | ||
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| Ultimately, we switched back to the netbook because running a full-blown Linux desktop added a lot more flexibility than running Android or Pivos’ scaled down Linux distribution.** | Ultimately, we switched back to the netbook because running a full-blown Linux desktop added a lot more flexibility than running Android or Pivos’ scaled down Linux distribution.** | ||
| - | Environ un an après la configuration du netbook comme serveur XBMC, les premières box Android faisaient leur apparition. L'une dont l' | + | Environ un an après la configuration du netbook comme serveur XBMC, les premières box Android faisaient leur apparition. L'une dont l' |
| - | Finalement, nous avons repris le netbook, car une distribution Linux complète pour ordinateur de bureau nous donnait beaucoup plus de flexibilité | + | Finalement, nous avons repris le netbook, car une distribution Linux complète pour ordinateur de bureau nous donnait beaucoup plus de flexibilité |
| **We’re fans of simplicity, but our netbook setup was getting out of control. When we had one external hard drive, the setup wasn’t so bad, but after we added a second and third external hard drive, our media center was starting to look like a web of cabling. Each external hard drive needed both power and a USB connection to the netbook. Sure, cables could be tidied with zip or velcro ties, but the power bricks all still needed to be connected to the wall which meant adding more power strips. Rather than simplifying our setup, running a netbook was actually complicating the setup. | **We’re fans of simplicity, but our netbook setup was getting out of control. When we had one external hard drive, the setup wasn’t so bad, but after we added a second and third external hard drive, our media center was starting to look like a web of cabling. Each external hard drive needed both power and a USB connection to the netbook. Sure, cables could be tidied with zip or velcro ties, but the power bricks all still needed to be connected to the wall which meant adding more power strips. Rather than simplifying our setup, running a netbook was actually complicating the setup. | ||
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| Thus we switched back to a ‘full blown PC,’ initially a 3.2GHz Pentium D, and later (currently) a Core 2 Quad Q8300 CPU. One of the awesome things we love about Linux is being able to scale. Dropping in a new CPU doesn’t mean having to buy a new license like it does on other operating systems. We’ve used the same Asus P5K motherboard ever since, and while it’s on the old side and the Core 2 Quad CPU consumes more power than a Core i3 processor, it’s done a great job. We picked up an open box special on a 1GB NVidia GeForce 210 PCIe fanless card for $29 from a local computer store. All 3 drives now sit in a single box and the only cables coming out of that box are power, video, ethernet, and the cable for the IR remote. ** | Thus we switched back to a ‘full blown PC,’ initially a 3.2GHz Pentium D, and later (currently) a Core 2 Quad Q8300 CPU. One of the awesome things we love about Linux is being able to scale. Dropping in a new CPU doesn’t mean having to buy a new license like it does on other operating systems. We’ve used the same Asus P5K motherboard ever since, and while it’s on the old side and the Core 2 Quad CPU consumes more power than a Core i3 processor, it’s done a great job. We picked up an open box special on a 1GB NVidia GeForce 210 PCIe fanless card for $29 from a local computer store. All 3 drives now sit in a single box and the only cables coming out of that box are power, video, ethernet, and the cable for the IR remote. ** | ||
| - | Nous aimons beaucoup la simplicité, | + | Nous aimons beaucoup la simplicité, |
| - | Et donc, nous sommes retournés vers un « vrai » PC, qui était, au départ, un Pentium D à 3,2 GHz et, plus tard (actuellement) un processeur Core 2 Quad Q8300. Une des choses géniales que nous adorons chez Linux est la capacité de relever le niveau de la machine. Y mettre un nouveau processeur ne signifie pas la nécessité d' | + | Et donc, nous sommes retournés vers un « vrai » PC, qui était, au départ, un Pentium D à 3,2 GHz et, plus tard (actuellement) un processeur Core 2 Quad Q8300. Une des choses géniales que nous adorons chez Linux est la capacité de relever le niveau de la machine. Y mettre un nouveau processeur ne signifie pas la nécessité d' |
| **There are far fewer cables at the back of our television now, and the performance is a lot better than it was on the netbook. The Q8300 and GeForce 210 are strong enough to handle Bluray content without stuttering, and the P5K’s gigabit ethernet delivers Bluray media via SAMBA just fine to other PCs in the house. | **There are far fewer cables at the back of our television now, and the performance is a lot better than it was on the netbook. The Q8300 and GeForce 210 are strong enough to handle Bluray content without stuttering, and the P5K’s gigabit ethernet delivers Bluray media via SAMBA just fine to other PCs in the house. | ||
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| Dans une autre pièce, il y a une Zoomtak T8H. Elle est sous Android, mais KODI 17 fonctionne très bien dessus et la box n'a pas de problèmes avec la lecture des contenus Bluray partagés. Bien que les deux petites boxes KODI ont le WiFi, nous livrons tous les contenus via notre connexion gigabit câblée ; le WiFi est tout simplement trop peu fiable et trop limitatif. | Dans une autre pièce, il y a une Zoomtak T8H. Elle est sous Android, mais KODI 17 fonctionne très bien dessus et la box n'a pas de problèmes avec la lecture des contenus Bluray partagés. Bien que les deux petites boxes KODI ont le WiFi, nous livrons tous les contenus via notre connexion gigabit câblée ; le WiFi est tout simplement trop peu fiable et trop limitatif. | ||
| - | Actuellement, | + | Actuellement, |
| **The other part of our media centre is a Linux desktop where we do all the media ripping. Years ago, when we talked to people about XBMC/KODI, they would look at you with blank stares. Now everyone is talking about XBMC/KODI because of its streaming capabilities, | **The other part of our media centre is a Linux desktop where we do all the media ripping. Years ago, when we talked to people about XBMC/KODI, they would look at you with blank stares. Now everyone is talking about XBMC/KODI because of its streaming capabilities, | ||
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| All our DVDs and Blurays are stored in boxes in our storage, and we can sit for hours watching a playlist of movies, television shows, music videos, music, or photographs. KODI has a convenient “Party mode” that takes a random selection of music or music videos and plays them - nice to have when guests are around.** | All our DVDs and Blurays are stored in boxes in our storage, and we can sit for hours watching a playlist of movies, television shows, music videos, music, or photographs. KODI has a convenient “Party mode” that takes a random selection of music or music videos and plays them - nice to have when guests are around.** | ||
| - | L' | + | L' |
| Les DVD et Bluray coûtent moins cher que jamais, surtout si vous n' | Les DVD et Bluray coûtent moins cher que jamais, surtout si vous n' | ||
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| Another thing we like to do is start some music playing, then navigate to our photo collection and press play; this starts a slideshow of photographs with music playing in the background. Whenever we have family around, we typically use KODI as a giant picture frame for all the photographs we’ve taken on vacation.** | Another thing we like to do is start some music playing, then navigate to our photo collection and press play; this starts a slideshow of photographs with music playing in the background. Whenever we have family around, we typically use KODI as a giant picture frame for all the photographs we’ve taken on vacation.** | ||
| - | Au début, nous stockions les DVD dans leur emballage dans des cartons dans notre espace de rangement, mais ça voulait dire encore plus de cartons. Pour avoir plus de place, on jetait les boîtiers en plastique et nous avons commencé à stocker les DVD et Blurays dans des pochettes. Nous avons mis les couvertures et les encarts dans quelques boîtes à chaussures, pour le cas où nous voudrions retourner | + | Au début, nous stockions les DVD dans leur emballage dans des cartons dans notre espace de rangement, mais ça voulait dire encore plus de cartons. Pour avoir plus de place, on jetait les boîtiers en plastique et nous avons commencé à stocker les DVD et Blurays dans des pochettes. Nous avons mis les couvertures et les encarts dans quelques boîtes à chaussures, pour le cas où nous voudrions retourner |
| - | Autre chose que nous aimons faire est de commencer à lire de la musique, puis d' | + | Autre chose que nous aimons faire est de commencer à lire de la musique, puis d' |
| **At one point, we were using a MyGica ATV 582 where we’re currently using the Zoomtak T8H. The MyGica was a nice box (except for the remote, but we tend to not like any of the remotes except the full-blown media center remotes), but we bricked it while trying to reflash it with an older Android firmware (we reset the box thinking the flash was stuck). MyGica was very responsive in the forums. The ATV 582 was a nice box, but we felt Android 5.0 was simply too sluggish on it. Zoomtak on the other hand was very unresponsive. Although we love the aluminum chassis of the T8H, and find that it runs the latest KODI just fine, we’d probably look first at a new MyGica box simply because they seemed more supportive. | **At one point, we were using a MyGica ATV 582 where we’re currently using the Zoomtak T8H. The MyGica was a nice box (except for the remote, but we tend to not like any of the remotes except the full-blown media center remotes), but we bricked it while trying to reflash it with an older Android firmware (we reset the box thinking the flash was stuck). MyGica was very responsive in the forums. The ATV 582 was a nice box, but we felt Android 5.0 was simply too sluggish on it. Zoomtak on the other hand was very unresponsive. Although we love the aluminum chassis of the T8H, and find that it runs the latest KODI just fine, we’d probably look first at a new MyGica box simply because they seemed more supportive. | ||
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| Next month, I’ll share our configuration files for our KODI server and describe how the other media centers mount the drives.** | Next month, I’ll share our configuration files for our KODI server and describe how the other media centers mount the drives.** | ||
| - | À un moment, nous utilisions une myGica ATV 582 là où la Zoomtak T8H se trouve actuellement. La box MyGica était bien (sauf pour ce qui concerne la télécommande, | + | À un moment, nous utilisions une myGica ATV 582 là où la Zoomtak T8H se trouve actuellement. La box MyGica était bien (sauf pour ce qui concerne la télécommande, |
| Dans l' | Dans l' | ||
| Le mois prochain, je dévoilerai les fichiers de configuration de notre serveur KODI et décrirai comment les autres centres de multimédia montent les disques. | Le mois prochain, je dévoilerai les fichiers de configuration de notre serveur KODI et décrirai comment les autres centres de multimédia montent les disques. | ||
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