On 23/03/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stephen Rowles</b> <<a href="mailto:stephen@rowles.org.uk">stephen@rowles.org.uk</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br><br>I currently have a freevo proof of concept box installed, while I wait for<br>my new hardware to arrive :)<br><br>However I am having serious trouble getting it to do what I want, so I am<br>considering throwing away all my hard freevo work and starting again on
<br>MythTV.<br><br>I want a system that can do the following:<br><br>Sit in the lounge - but importantly it will have no CD or DVD drive.<br>Map a network drive containing MP3's<br>Map a network drive containing ripped DVD (not actually ripped any yet)
</blockquote><div><br>Yes, very easily, you can just mount the drives using cifs and then point MythVideo and MythMusic at thos mounted directories. A little tweaking and away you go.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Allow me to browse and playback MP3's and DVD's in a sensible way with<br>folder based browsing and "cover art".</blockquote><div> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a></blockquote><div><br>Just give it a whirl!<br><br>HTH<br><br>Steve Daniels<br> </div><br></div><br>