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[pvogue]

HP Microserver + Plex ftw! All blu-rays ripped fully to 4x8TB drives, all play through my Denon amp just like blu-rays without getting off my butt to insert a disc

I got my N54L with cashback afew years ago around £89, decent machines mine is running Windows 8.1.

[chr15b]

Similar to above, hp microserver though I chose to run Ubuntu on it.

I run use a mixture of Apple TV or sky NowTV boxes with the plex app on them.

The sky ones are pretty good as they can be picked up for around £10

[maccas99]

Plex server running on a Shuttle PC with Win10. Media stored on a rack mount Synology and using the Plex player on the Roku 3 which goes through my Denon Receiver. All works seamlessly without issues.

[joestifff]

wormus said:

I bought one of these http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_0724.html...

SSD boots into Windows 10 in less than 10 seconds from cold. 3 internal 5TB drives and all my films are ripped to MKV and played through KODI to my AV using the on board HDMI. Music is ripped to ALAC and played through iTunes simply because it has an easy interface. You need to set Windows up so it does no music processing and plays everything in raw digital format. The added benefit is you can play YouTube and other steamed web content.

Forget all your stupid fire sticks etc. Do it properly!

Edited by wormus on Friday 1st July 18:51

That looks really nice, so you've put a motherboard etc etc inside that, and turned it into a PC basically, run 15tb of storage, loaded Kodi up and away you go? What sound card do you have in it to output full dolby?

[anonymous-user]

joestifff said:

That looks really nice, so you've put a motherboard etc etc inside that, and turned it into a PC basically, run 15tb of storage, loaded Kodi up and away you go? What sound card do you have in it to output full dolby?

Thanks. Yes that's it but I bought it ready built from FiercePc. For some reason they no longer list them on their web site but I'm sure they'd still do one if you call them. The motherboard is made by Gigabyte with full 1080p 7.1 surround support. No sound card, as it plays all content digitally and un processed through WASAPI/HDMI. http://kodi.wiki/view/windows_audio

The AV receiver decodes the raw signal and processes it. I also have a robocopy job set up that backs everything up to my NAS.